Patricio Fernández

Patricio Fernández is a visual artist, producer, designer and art installer with a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile.

His academic training was strongly influenced by the artist Gonzalo Díaz (National Visual Arts Award 2003), his painting professor who led him to develop new artistic proposals in which the human figure is the central element. After graduating, he worked as a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he taught screen printing from 2003 to 2008.

His work mainly focuses on portraits and drawings, both in colour and in greyscale, developed from graphite, ink or charcoal to painting and pastels or with less traditional techniques, such as engraved and backlit acrylic plates. Through these portraits - in which the line is assembled in layers - the artist creates a symbolic transfer of his view: a reflection on the complexity that repeats itself between flesh and psyche in the human being and how this is constituted by superimpositions and crossings, both of living tissues in the physical aspect, and of thoughts, experiences and emotions in the psychological realm. The latter forms a complex and dense web that our senses and understanding cannot grasp.

Since 1996 he has exhibited his work in Chile, both individually and collectively, in spaces such as Galería Animal, Galería Florencia Loewenthal, Sala Isidora Zegers and Metales Pesados in Santiago, and Galería El Farol, Galería H-10 and Sala CODAR (PUCV) in Valparaíso. His solo exhibition Hebras, Retrato de Un Tejido, a project awarded a National Endowment for the Arts in 2021, is his first exhibition in a decade and will be presented between October and December 2023 at Matucana 100.

Alongside his artistic career, Fernández has worked for more than 20 years as an exhibition producer, designer and installer, and is currently the General Producer of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Chile.

Patricio Fernández lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

Submitted by Isabel Croxatto Galería