Artist Talk | Teresita Fernández
Teresita Fernández
Photograph by Natalia Mantini
Teresita Fernández, Caribbean Cosmos, 2022, glazed ceramic, courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London. © Teresita Fernández / Photograph by Eva Herzog
Monday, April 10, 2023
The work of artist Teresita Fernández is characterized by an expansive rethinking of what constitutes landscape: from the subterranean to the cosmic, from national borders to the elusive psychic landscapes people carry within. Fernández unravels the intimacies between matter, human beings, and locations—her luminous work poetically challenges ideas about land and landscape. Questions of power, visibility, and erasure are important tenets of her art.
“You look at the landscape, but the landscape also looks back at you; Landscape is more about what you don’t see than what you do see.” —Teresita Fernández
Plan Your Visit
This program takes place in Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free. The Museum is closed on Mondays.
About the Artist
New York–based Teresita Fernández is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and the recipient of numerous awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. In 2011, she was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, and in 2016 she created the U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
This lecture is funded by the Latin Maecenas.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.