Bio

Caleb Fernandez is an artist who utilizes painting, drawing, and printmaking. They have had work exhibited at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and had art auctioned off at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in Brooklyn New York. They were awarded with the St. Gaudens Medal in 2024 from the School Art League at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and also had the opportunity to complete the Mount Gretna School of Art summer art intensive for plein air painting in 2025.

Fernandez is currently working towards their BFA in Fine Arts at (SUNY) Fashion Institute of Technology. Fernandez currently lives in their hometown of Brooklyn, NY, where their studio practice is based. 

Statement

My work revolves around the ambiguous nature of sight and memory. Working across painting, drawing and printmaking, I explore the structural nature of my subject while also leaning into the slipperiness of paint. I am inspired by the properties of early animation and am drawn to the noisy distortion of old media. My work evokes the emotion of those halcyon days in your childhood.