This exhibition will survey the work of Fernandez, a Los Angeles-based artist who from the late 1980s to the present has conducted a rich exploration of migration, labor, gender, and her Mexican American identity through photography. Bringing together the artist’s most important bodies of work for the first time, Fernandez’s work highlights the experiences of Mexican Americans, from border-spanning family histories to contemporary lavanderías. This exhibition is generously supported by the Teiger Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and the Vincentian Endowment Fund. 

Image credit: Christina Fernandez, "Lavanderia #1," 2002. Archival pigment print. From the series Lavanderia. Courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.