Agustín Fernández (artist)
Agustín Fernández (16 April 1928 - 2 June 2006) was a Cuban painter, sculptor, and multimedia artist. Although he was born in Cuba, he spent the majority of his career outside of Cuba, and produced art in Havana, Paris, San Juan, and New York.
Fernández is considered to be a member of the surrealist school.[1] At the age of 11, Fernández began taking art lessons with Justicia de Leon, and, at the age of 20, Fernández enrolled in the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana. In the years that followed, Fernández worked in Cuba until he moved to Spain in 1953. In Spain, he audited courses at Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and enjoyed his first solo exhibition at Galería Buchholz in Madrid. In 1960, Fernandez moved to Paris, where he would live until he moved to San Juan, in 1968. In 1972, Fernández finally settled in New York, where he would work for the remainder of his life.
Recent Major exhibitions
2013 - "Form’s Transgressions: The Drawings of Agustín Fernández,"[2] The Snite Museum of Art
2014 - "Agustín Fernández: Ultimate Surrealist,"[3] American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2018 - "Paradoxe de la Jouissance,"[4] Mairie du 4e arrondissement, Paris, France
2019 - "Agustín Fernández: Armaduras,"[5] Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Collections
- Art Museum of the Americas[6]
- Brooklyn Museum of Art[7]
- Cabinet des Estampes
- Cintas Foundation[8]
- Círculo de Bellas Artes
- El Museo del Barrio
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum
- Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
- JP Morgan Chase Collection
- Lowe Art Museum
- Miami-Dade Public Library[9]
- Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia
- Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Museum of Art, Nova Southern University
- Museum of Latin American Art
- Museum of Modern Art[10]
- Newark Museum
- New Mexico Museum of Art
- New York Public Library
- Snite Museum of Art[2]
- Saint Thomas University Library
- The Frost Art Museum[11]
- The Patrick Lannan Foundation
- Tucson Museum of Art[12]
- University of Texas-Pan American
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Worcester Art Museum
- Yale University Art Gallery[13]
References
- ^ Kuspit, Donald (2012). "The Fetishized Breast and the Phallic Woman: Agustín Fernández's Surreal Imagery". Agustín Fernández: The Metamorphosis of Experience. 5 Continents: 12.
- ^ a b "Form's Transgressions: The Drawings of Agustín Fernández". The Snite Museum of Art.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Agustín Fernández: Ultimate Surrealist | American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC". American University. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "The Erotically Charged Technophilia of Cyberpunk Paintings". Hyperallergic. 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "Agustin Fernández: Armaduras". Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "Agustin Fernandez". Art Museum of the Americas.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Agustin Fernandez". Brooklyn Museum.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Agustin Fernandez". Cintas Foundation.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Permanent Art Collection". Miami Dade Public Library System.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Agustín Fernández". Museum of Modern Art.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Agustin Fernandez: a retrospective, October 30 - December 11, 1992. Catalogs. Frost Art Museum, The Art Museum at Florida International University. 1992.
- ^ "Agustin Fernandez". Tucson Museum of Art.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Agustin Fernandez". Yale University Art Gallery.
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