This landmark exhibition surveys the work of Christina Fernandez, the crucially important Los Angeles-based artist who has spent thirty years in a rich exploration of migration, labor, gender, her Mexican-American identity, and the unique capacities of the photographic medium itself. Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures brings together the artist’s most important bodies of works for the first time, allowing audiences to discover the threads that connect them, both formal and conceptual. Through work that spans decades, Fernandez compels us to reconsider history, the border, and the real lives that cross and inhabit them.

An accompanying catalogue features six essays and an extensive interview interview with the artist. Together, these texts offer critical perspectives on Fernandez’s radical intellectual and formal agenda and reveal the multiple senses of “exposure” that are at play in her art.

California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS
Riverside, California
September 10, 2022–February 5, 2023

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth, Texas
March 12–July 9, 2023

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale, Arizona
September 16, 2023–January 7, 2024

Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, New Jersey
February 10–April 28, 2024

San José Museum of Art
San José, California
June 7–September 22, 2024

DePaul Art Museum
Chicago, Illinois
March 20–August 3, 2025

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures is curated by Joanna Szupinska, Senior Curator at the California Museum of Photography. Chon Noriega, Distinguished Professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA, is curatorial advisor. Exhibition design concept by HvADesign, New York. This exhibition was made possible by grants from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for the publication was provided by AltaMed Health Services, and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

Image: Christina Fernandez, Lavanderia #2, 2002. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles.