Claudia Fernandez (1964)

After practicing as a painter for more than a decade, her work moved into photography and video since the late 1990's. Her pieces explore the proliferation and transformations of patterns of every kind within the urban landscape. In her videos, the manipulation of minute aspects of everyday scenes through simple optical gadgets creates moving fields of color and texture that transform the exhibition space into an unstable and hallucinogenic environment. 

Born in Mexico City, she won the first prize in the Monterrey Biennial (1996), and has been awarded the Young Artists' Grant in 1997 and 1999. She has shown her work at the San Diego Museum of Art (2002), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2001), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2002) and Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (1998).