Magdalena Fernández (born 1964) is a

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

n installation and media artist known for her work with light, sound, and abstractions of nature. Her work has been exhibited internationally at the

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, the

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, and the

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. Fernández was born in

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Venezuela in 1964. She lives and works in Caracas. In 1982 she studied Graphic Arts at the

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. Between 1983 and 1984 she attended the Andrés Bello Catholic University, UCAB, where she studied education, physical and mathematical mention. In 1985 she joined the Neumann Institute of Caracas, where she graduated as a graphic designer in 1989. In 1990 she began to attend the Scuola Bottega with

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in Milan, Italy, with whom she took a course in

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and Graphic Design until 1993. From 1990 to 2000 she worked as a freelance graphic designer in Italy. In 2001 and from 2002 to 2004 she taught workshops called ''Approach to Space'' and ''Practice and Criticism of Contemporary Systems of Visual Representation'' at the Instituto Universitario de Estudios Superiores de Artes Plásticas Armando Reverón (IUESAPAR) in Caracas. In 2011, Fernández's solo exhibit, ''Shifting Objects/Atmospheres-Structures-Grounds'', at the Periférico Carcas/Arte Contemporáneo in Caracas.

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External links

www.magdalenafernandez.com
Living people Venezuelan women artists Boston University College of Fine Arts alumni Andrés Bello Catholic University alumni 1964 births {{Venezuela-artist-stub