Ana Fernandez was born in 1963 and raised in Quito

Quito

San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

, Ecuador

Ecuador

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She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute

San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...

 with a BFA in Painting and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts

California College of the Arts

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. Ana explores the intersection between the real and the fantastic through drawing, painting, writing, education and art based social practice.

She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krassner Foundation Award, and was an Artist in Residence at Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York

Rosendale, New York

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. She received a grant to develop and Art Program in Yunguilla Ecuador through Center for Art and Public life. She has been Painting faculty at Universidad Central del Ecuador, and Broward College Ecuador. She is current Social Practices faculty at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Ana created and currently develops workshops with the Museum in a Box, a program to bring Contemporary Ecuadorian Art to communities around the world, through a grant from the Ecuadorian Cultural Department. She has conducted various socially based sewing collaborations in Ecuador and California

California

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Her work has been shown throughout Latin America

Latin America

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, Spain

Spain

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, Italy

Italy

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, and the US

United States

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 and is in various collections.