JAKE FERNÁNDEZ
Born in 1951
EDUCATION
B.F.A. University of Florida, 1976
M.F.A. University of South Florida, 1979
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana
Contemporary Art Museum,
University of South Florida,
Tampa, Florida
Lawton Chiles Foundation,
Anna Maria Island, Florida
State of Florida House of Representatives.
Florida State Capitol Building,
Tallahassee, Florida
State of Florida Senate Building.
Florida State Capitol,
Tallahassee, Florida
St. Petersburg Junior College,
St. Petersburg, Florida
Shands Teaching Hospital,
University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida
Yancey Bros. Corporation,
Atlanta, Georgia
IBM Corporation,
Armonk, New York
American Express Corporation,
New York, New York
PepsiCo Incorporated,
Chicago, Illinois
Nations Bank,
Charlotte, North Carolina
Institute for Research in Art,
University of South Florida Museum,
Tampa, Florida
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Jake Fernandez: Black and White
TECO Public Gallery, Tampa, FL
2017
Jake Fernandez: Second Nature
Benedictine University, Chicago, IL
Jake Fernandez: Prairies
Snite Museum, Focus Exhibition
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
2015
Las Meninas: A Film by Jake Fernandez
Video
College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
2014
Jake Fernandez: Constructed Landscapes
Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL
Jake Fernandez: Seven Days and 16 Hours in Parchman Farm
Performance/Installation
Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL
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
Jake Fernandez: Places, Real and Imagined
Seminole State College of Florida, Sanford, FL
Jake Fernandez: The Perpetual Frieze
6th Street Container Alternative Space, Miami, FL
2010
Jake Fernandez: Progressions
Florida International University, Miami, FL
2009
Jake Fernandez: European Landscapes
Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA
2007
Jake Fernandez: Southern Landscapes
Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA
2001
Jake Fernandez: The Ethereal Journeyman
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Continued)
1999
Jake Fernandez: Landscapes
Randy Batista Gallery, Gainesville, FL
1998
Jake Fernandez: Sites and Composites
Frances Wolfson Art Gallery
Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
Jake Fernandez: Southern Landscapes
Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA
1997
Jake Fernandez: Landscapes
Timpson Gallery, Clayton, GA
Paintings and Drawings, 1977-1997
Tampa Public Library, Tampa, FL
1996
Jake Fernandez: 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
Drawings and Paintings by Jake Fernandez
Lynch Gallery, St. Petersburg Junior College, St. Petersburg, FL
1978
Jake Fernandez, Recent Photographs
Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL
FILMS/VIDEO
2013
The Ethereal Garden
videotape
2012
Perpetual Frieze
videotape
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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2018
Visions and Imagination: Cuban American and Argentinian Art
Binghamton University, New York
2013
Fountain of Youth
Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, FL
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS (Continued)
1990
New York Group
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
State of Florida All-Media Juried Show
Sarasota Art Association, Sarasota, FL
4th Annual U.S.F. Juried Art Exhibition
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Festival of States
Arts Center Association, St. Petersburg, FL
Invitational Traveling Exhibition
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Tampa Bay Art Center Members’ Juried Art Exhibition
Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL
Works by Two Cuban Artists
University Center Gallery
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
U.S.F. 18th Annual Photography Awards
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Works by Jake Fernandez and Linda Chapman
Trend House Gallery, Tampa, FL
The New Floridians (Traveling Exhibition)
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, FL
LECTURES
2015
The Art of Jake Fernandez
University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Notre Dame, IN
2014
Darwin Was Wrong: A Conversation About Painting with Jake Fernandez,
Miami Dade College, Arts and Philosophy Department, Miami, FL
Art and the Telemetry of Nature
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Seven Days and 16 Hours in Parchman Farm
Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL
Constructed Landscapes
Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL
2013
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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017
Jake Fernandez: Second Nature
Exhibition Catalog, Benedictine University, Chicago, IL
Culturally Speaking
Art Times Journal, New York, March 2011
2014
Jake Fernandez: Seven Days and Sixteen Hours in Parchman Farm
Performance Catalog, Art and History Museums, Maitland, March 2014
Jake Fernandez: Constructed Landscapes
Exhibition Catalog, Art and History Museums, Maitland, FL January 2014
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
laarawilliamsen.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 Catalog, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Art: A Cuban Revolution
Alternative Latin Investor Magazine, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001
Jake Fernandez: Ethereal Journeyman
Exhibition Catalog, Retrospective Exhibition,
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2001- present
Who’s Who in American Art
Sites and Composites
Exhibition Catalog, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami
1986
Four from Latin America
Exhibition Catalog, Miami Dade College
1978
True Confessions, True Concessions
University of South Florida, Tampa
1977
New Floridians
Exhibition Catalog, Jacksonville Art Museum