Born in Málaga, 1977.
Manuel Fernández is a Spanish artist based in Madrid. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet.
He works with a wide range of media including: painting, website, animated gif, installation, photography, video and print. His notable works include: On Kawara Time Machine, Ants, Broken Gradients, Recognition and New Ruins Google Earth Tour.
Fernández has several works at the Artbase of Rhizome at the New Museum NYC and has been exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including The Museum of Moving Image, New York, The Armory Show, New York, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bronx Art Space, New York, The Photographers Gallery, London, The White House Studio Project, Toronto, Shangai Art Museum and the Triennale di Milano.
Manuel has received numerous awards for his work, including Carmen Arozena Prize, Madrid, Projecte Capella Intervention Prize, Palma de Mallorca, and Castellón Expanded Painting Prize.
He has been one of the jurors of "ERROR 415" Award in New Media organized by ArtSlant. 2013.
Fernández is founder and curator of Domain Gallery a web based gallery focused on digital and internet based works.
His work have been featured in multiple outlets, including Spanish newspaper El País, Dazed Digital, Fastco Design Blog, Triangulation Blog, I like this art, O Fluxo Blog, trend magazine Notodo and Minus Space Blog, among others.
Exhibitions
2013
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What we call sculpture at Cerma
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Online
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2013
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The Eternal Internet Brotherhood. Curated by Angelo Plessas.
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Las Pozas Surrealist Park, Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, MX
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2013
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DVD Dead Drop Vol. 5
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Museum of Moving Image, New York, US
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2013
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Decenter
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Armory show, Abrons Art Center, New York, US
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2013
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Glitch Aesthetic Exhibition
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Counterpath press, Denver, US
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2012
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On Kawara Time Machine
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Caesura Gallery, Winnipeg / Online
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2012
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Sheroes
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The Beaver, Toronto. CA
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2012
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#D
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Bronx Art Space, New York, US
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2012
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Born in 1987, The Animated Gif
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The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
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2012
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Apache Projects for The Eternal Internet Brotherhood, slideshow curated by Nate Hitchcock
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Anafi Island, GR
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2012
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Automata curated by Block T's visual art co-ordinator Grace McEvoy
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Electric picnic festival, Dublin, UK
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2012
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The Projects, Plink Flojd
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Hollywood Theater, Portland, US
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2012
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New Territories
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The Smith Gallery, Academic Center Ringling College of Art + Design, Sarasota, US
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2012
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Transfer 3D
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Speedshow, Cafe Internet Navig@tor, PL
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2012
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Moving the Still, Gif Festival
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Art Basel Miami Beach, US
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2012
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Black Dots. WAG. The Widget Art Gallery curated by Chiara Passa
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Online
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2012
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Two Hundred and Sixteen Colors
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Galería Adriana Suárez, Gijón, ES
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2012
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Aquarium at Parallelograms curated and published by Leah Beeferman and Matthew Harvey
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Online
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2011
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The Animated Gif Exhibition
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Ten Prinsenhove. Antwerp, BE
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2011
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Premio Internacional Carmen Arozena
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Espacio Canarias de Creación y Cultura, Madrid, Foro Sur, Cáceres, ES
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2011
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IV Bienal Iberoamericana de obra gráfica
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Palacio de Isla, Cáceres, ES
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2010
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Windows
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Capilla de la Misericordia, Palma de Mallorca, ES
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