mercedes fernández is an Internationally exhibited fine art photographer with shows in eight countries and ten cities, holding an M.F.A from Parsons School of Design in Photography. She works with the body in relation to the environment they are placed in, observing the absurdity of everyday life and the performance of being. Through digital manipulation, humor and absurdity, their work questions how bodies interact with their surroundings and objects. The bodies in turn become objects themselves, devaluing the canon of objectified bodies.
Most recently mercedes has been featured in the photography culture centre in Lishui, China for the traveling group exhibition, “Anything Can Be a Hammer” originating in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery in New York. She has been exhibited in the 9th World Biennial of Student Photography in Novi Sad (Serbia), Banja Luka (Republika Srpska), and Labin (Croatia), PH21 gallery (Barcelona), Photoville (New York), Blackrock Center for the Arts (Maryland), Colorado Photographic Arts Center (Colorado), and Studio 1469 (D.C.). as well as participating in a collaborative project with five leading international art colleges in Zurich, Switzerland. The project explored experiments in art-making, questioning if faculty and students can collaborate successfully on a project.
In 2019, mercedes won an award for two images shown at Blackrock Center for the Arts’, Captured Light: Current Photographic Process. In 2020, they were shortlisted for Bartur’s Photo contest and in 2023, for the Women United Art Prize.
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