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JAKE FERNANDEZ

Born: Havana, Cuba 1951

Education: B.F.A. University of Florida, 1976       
                     M.F.A. University of South Florida, 1979

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:

Contemporary Art Museum
University of South Florida, Tampa

Lawton Chiles Foundation
Anna Maria Island, Florida

State of Florida House of Representatives
Florida State Capitol Building, Tallahassee

State of Florida Senate Building
Florida State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida

St. Petersburg Junior College
St. Petersburg, Florida

IBM Corporation
Armonk, New York

American Express Corporation
New York, NY

PepsiCo Incorporated
Chicago, IL

Nations Bank
Charlotte, NC

Institute for Research in Art
University of South Florida Museum, Tampa


  SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2013                 Jake Fernandez: Altered Realities, Retrospective Exhibition
                          Lighthouse Art Center Museum and School of Art, Palm Beach County, FL

2012                Jake Fernandez: Paintings, Drawings, Photo-collages and Videos    
                        The Studio at Gulf and Pine, Anna Maria Island, FL

2011                Places, Real and Imagined
                         Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford, FL

                        The Perpetual Frieze
                         6th Street Container Alternative Space, Miami, FL

2010                Jake Fernandez: Progressions
                        Florida International University, Miami, FL

2009                European Landscapes
                         Timpson Gallery, GA

2007                Southern Landscapes
                         Timpson Gallery, GA

2001                Jake Fernandez: The Ethereal Journeyman
                         Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1999                Landscapes
                         Randy Batista Gallery, Gainesville, FL

1998                Sites and Composites
                         Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL

                        Southern Landscapes
                        Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA

1997                Landscapes
                         Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA

                        Paintings and Drawings, 1977-1997
                        Tampa Public Library, Tampa, FL

1996                Gardens
                         Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA

1992                Paintings and Drawings
                         Marcelle Fine Art, New York, NY

1986                 Paintings and Drawings
                          Stokker-Stikker Gallery, New York, NY

  1983                Paintings and Drawings
                         Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach, FL                     

1981                Paintings and Drawings
                         Gallery Gemini, Palm Beach, FL

1980                Quittin’ Your Sugar, Installation
                          Deland Museum, Deland, FL

1979                 Acts of Abandonment and Despair
                          University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

1978                Jake Fernandez, Recent Photographs
                         Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:

2013                  The Quest for the Fountain of Youth
                           Thomas

  2012                Deliverance
                          Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA

  2010                Florida Landscapes
                           Mrs. Lawton Chiles Collection, Anna Maria Island, FL

  2008                ACA Galleries
                           New York, NY

                           The Interpretive Landscape
                           Present Global Art Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL

2004                   Made in Florida: The Contemporary Landscape
                            The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL

2001- 2002        Florida Visual Art Fellowship Exhibition (Traveling Exhibition)
                                         Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,  Coral Gables, FL
                                         The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
                                          Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL

2001                    Pastels
                             Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2000                   Environments
                           Westwood Gallery, New York, NY

1999                   State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship                        

1996                    Gallery Artists
                             Sori Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL

                             Screen Plays (Traveling Exhibition)
                                         Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
                                         Appleton Museum, Ocala, FL
                                         Florida Craftsman Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
                                         Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL

                                            1991     Selections from Florida Collections                           
                             Dunedin Art Center, Dunedin, FL
                           
                             Paintings and Drawings
                             Marcelle Fine Art, New York, NY

                            Photo Exhibition
                            Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY

                            Latin American Spectrum
                             Elite Galleries, Coral Gables, FL

      1990              Group Exhibition
                             Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

               1986    Abstraction: Four from Latin America
                              Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL

                             Stay the Course, Video Installation
                             NOW Gallery, New York, NY

                1983     Paper Fiber and Drawing Invitational
                               Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1981                    Mitch’s Marches
                              A’s Gallery, New York, NY

1980              Color Photographs
                              Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY

                             Tampa Bay 80
                             Tampa Museum, Tampa, FL

                             13th Florida Gulf Coast Annual
                             Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Clearwater, FL

        1979        Drawings and Paintings by Jake Fernandez
                              Lynch Gallery, St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, FL

                             Works by Jake Fernandez
                              Trend House Gallery, Tampa, FL

                              The New Floridians
                                           Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
                                           Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL

FILMS/VIDEO:

2012                      Perpetual Frieze
        1998                      Abbey Load                                      25 min videotape
            1988                      Airstream                                           25 min videotape  
       1985                      Jack Copons: A Private Eye             videotape series
        1984                      Stay the Course                                37 sec videotape
  1979                      Las Meninas                                     20 min 16mm
  1978                      The Burning of St. Francis               7 min 16mm

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

2013                      Jake Fernandez: Altered Realities
                                Exhibition Catalog, Lighthouse ArtCenter Museum, Palm Beach County, FL

                          2012               Representational and Ethereal Art of Jake Fernandez
                                Latino Weekly Review, Los Angeles, CA, May 2012

  2011                     Jake Fernandez, A Fine Cuban Artist
                               Upscale Living Magazine, Boston, MA, October 2011

                               Jake Fernandez-Painter of Multi-Layered Masterpieces
                               Laara Williamsen.wordpress.com, Sept. 2011

                              Plausible Reality: Jake Fernandez
                              Sarasota Magazine, April 2011

                             Culturally Speaking
                             Art Times Journal, New York, March 2011

  2010                   Jake Fernandez: Progressions
                             Exhibition Catalogue, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2010                    Art: A Cuban Revolution
                               Alternative Latin Investor Magazine, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2001                     Jake Fernandez: Ethereal Journeyman
                             Exhibition Catalogue, Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

  2001- present  Who’s Who in American Art

                             Sites and Composites, Exhibition Catalogue
                             Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami

1986                     Four from Latin America
                              Exhibition Catalogue, Miami Dade College

1978                    True Confessions, True Concessions
                               University of South Florida, Tampa

1977                     New Floridians, Exhibition catalogue, Jacksonville Art Museum

LECTURES

2013                        Jake Fernandez: Altered Realities, Lighthouse Art Center Museum, Jupiter, FL

2012                       The Perpetual Frieze, 6th Street Container Alternative Space, Miami, FL

                                Art and the Telemetry of Nature, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

                                Master Artist Series, School of the Arts, Palmetto, FL

2011                       Concept:  The Perpetual Frieze, 6th Street Container Alternative Space, Miami, FL

                                Places, Real and Imagined, Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford, FL

2010                       Progressions, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2009                       The Myakka Project, Lawton Chiles Foundation Studio, Anna Maria, FL

2001                       The Ethereal Journeyman, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL