Fernanda M. Tovar

Fernanda Morales Tovar is a visual artist whose work explores the analogies and dialectics existing in the environment that promote the conjunction of nature and urban devices in everyday life. She constructs a visual archaeology based on the interpretation and proposal of signs of the intersection of spaces, the human being, the stories, the ruin, and the landscape, through the use of paint. 

She earned her MFA and BFA in Visual Arts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She did an Academic Research Stay at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2019). Her work has been exhibited in various museums and institutions in Mexico, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Currently, she is a beneficiary of the "Young Creators" in the Painting category, Fellowship of the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects SACPC, Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico. Her work has been published in international press, as well as her work is part of the Mexican Collection Arte Lumen.

Education

2018-2020- Master of Visual Arts, Postgraduate in Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico.

2011-2015- Bachelor of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico.
2019- Academic Research Stay, Faculty of Fine Arts from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. With tutorship of the professor and artist Blanca Fernández Quesada.

Soloshow

2022- A bluer board, Curation by Belén Fernández, ARM Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

2018-Archeologies of enviroment, Gallery Refuge for Visual Emergencies, State of Mexico, Mexico.

Groupshows (Selection)

2022- Light of Day: Rejects Reconsidered, Lodger Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, Virtual Platform. - Nasty Women Revive, Nasty Women London at Open House Hackney, London, United Kingdom. - Book, Cultivate Gallery, London, United Kingdom, Virtual Platform.- Through the clouds, Better Together Artists, United Kingdom, Virtual Platform.

2021 - XII Pacific Biennial of Painting and Engraving “Javier Mariano", Museo 7 Regiones, Guerrero, Mexico.- Destetados, Gallery Weekend Mexico, Cachorro Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. - Kitchen Gallery Exhibition, Round Lemon-Moseley Hive, Birmingham, United Kingdom.- 25th Art Fair Art Laren, Kiwanis Club Laren, Huizen, the Netherlands.- A good understanding, few words, Haikus essays in the plastic arts, A6 Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. - Arcadia, Curating Futures Community, United Kingdom, Virtual Platform.- 1st International Online Art Exhibition, Motile Art, Calcuta, India, Virtual Plataform.- Immersion Site, Curation by Sam Light, Carrie Able Gallery, New York, United States, Virtual Platform.- Connection, Better Together Artists, United Kingdom, Virtual Plataform.- Undertow, OpenArtExchange Gallery, Schiedam, the Netherlands.- Urban theories. City landscapes..., Curation by Héctor Archundia, ArtBaena Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.- The mountain blooms, VR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.- Plastic Art Fanzines: Women artists with Delirious Ideas, Curation by Maximiliano Grego, Mazatlan Art Museum, Sinaloa, Mexico.

2020- State of Mexico Fair Art, Mexiquense Art Gallery Museum, State of Mexico, Mexico.- This is not out of context, Adolfo Mexiac Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.- Fanzines: Plastic Artists with Delirious Ideas, Curation by Maximiliano Grego, Guanajuato Wine Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico.- IV Biennial of Painting José Atanasio Monroy, Francisco Villa Museum, Durango, Mexico.- Poetics of Contemporary Art, Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

2019- Poetics of Contemporary Art, Mexican Plastic Show, Mexico City, Mexico.- The Contemporary Guanajuato Collection, Noel Cayetano Gallery, Guanajuato, Mexico.- The Contemporary Guanajuato Collection, Regional Center for Artistic Expression, Guanajuato, Mexico.- Expo Fonde Arte, Museum of Watercolor, Mexico City, Mexico.- Memories of freedom, Korean Cultural Center, Mexico City, Mexico.
2018- Residues or Fables of Anticipation, Curation by Guillermo Santamarina Lagunes, El Otro Mono Gallery, Morelos, Mexico.- IV Biennial of Painting José Atanasio Monroy, Raúl Anguiano Museum Art, Jalisco, Mexico.- IV Biennial of Painting José Atanasio Monroy, University Center of the South Coast, Jalisco, Mexico.- III University Fair of Art, University Museum of Sciences and Arts, Mexico City, Mexico.- 2nd Art Circuit, YLK Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

2017- 5th Anniversary, YLK Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.- Affordable, YLK Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016- Kozmic Blues: between control / uncontrol, Curation by Guillermo Santamarina Lagunes, BUAP University Cultural Center, Puebla, Mexico.- Biennial 'Parameter 02' Arte Lumen, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico.- 5th. Anniversary AFA Catalogue, Faro Oriente, Mexico City, Mexico.

2015- Ten years of the Aguafuerte Gallery, Aguafuerte Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.'- Parameter 01' Arte Lumen, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.

2014- Vicissitudes of the environment, Museum of Cultures, Mexico City, Mexico.A R T F A I R S
2021- 25th Art Fair Art Laren, Kiwanis Club Laren, Huizen, the Netherlands.
2020- Mexican Art Fair, Mexiquense Art Gallery Museum, Mexico.
2018- III University Fair of Art, University Museum of Sciences and Arts UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.

Rewards

2022- First Biennal Federico Kampf, selection of work (painting category), Mexico City, Mexico.

2021- XII Pacific Biennial of Painting and Engraving “Javier Mariano", selection of work (painting category), Guerrero, Mexico.
2020- Mexican Art Fair 2020, selection of work (painting category), Mexico.
2020- Fortuitous encounters with you, Productions Bank, Project of exhibitions of visual artists by the Secretary of Culture and Image Center, selection of work, Mexico.
2020- Monolito Catalogue / Art Now, selection of work (painting category), Mexico.
2018- IV Biennial of Painting José Atanasio Monroy, selection of work (painting category), Mexico.- III University Art Fair, selection of work (painting category), Mexico City, Mexico.
2016- Biennial 'Parameter 02' Arte Lumen, selection of work (painting category), Mexico City, Mexico.
2015- 'Parameter 01' Arte Lumen Call, selection of work (painting category), Mexico City, Mexico.S C H O L A R S H I P S2021 - 2022 - Young Creators in the Painting category, Fellowship of the System of Supports for Creation and Cultural Projects SACPC, Secretariat of Culture of the Government of Mexico.

2019- Support Program for Postgraduate Studies PAEP-UNAM, Beneficiary for the Program in Research Stays in international institutions, held at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (October – December).
2018-2020- CEP UNAM Scholarship, Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in Visual Arts from National Autonomous University of Mexico.
2016-2017- PAPIIT Project 'Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Mexico', 19th and 20th centuries, Scholarship holder and assistant, the Institute of Aesthetic Research from National Autonomous University of Mexico.P U B L I C A T I O N S2022- Archeologies of the Environment , San Antonio Review (Volume 6 | 2022) Texas, United States, (sareview.org) 

2021- The shadow and its constant on the canvas. Reflections on the shadow as thought and construction of painting. Madrid, Spain - Mexico City, Mexico. 

2017- The presence and memory in the recreation of spaces. Reflection on the use of dialectics in the languages of painting. Mexico City, Mexico.T E A C H I N G2018- Theoretical and practical principles of painting, Course at the Faculty of Architecture, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

ARTISTIC AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

2021- The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, Routledge Handbooks, Collaboration in the handbook cover through of painting “Displaced Nexus". 
2020- Plastic Art Fanzines: Women artists with Delirious Ideas, Editorial project. First volume of an anthology of fanzines of plastic and visual artists from Mexico.
2015 - PAPIIT Project 'Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Mexico', 19th and 20th centuries, Participant in the Seminar at the Institute of Aesthetic Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

PRESS (SELECTION)

September 2021- Issue o2, As Yet Untitled, Interim Arts, Printed Magazine, London, United Kingdom.
July 2021- RED issue, Corbeaux Magazine, Printed Magazine, United States.May 2021- Artists responding to, Issue 9, Printed Magazine, London, United Kingdom.
July 2020- Selection of Contemporary Art Works, Printed catalogue, ART HOLE 2, London, United Kingdom.
December 2019- IV Biennial of Painting José Atanasio Monroy, Printed catalogue of selected work.
May 2018 - Memories of freedom, Group show digital catalogue.
February 2018 - Archeologies of enviroment, Solo show digital catalogue.
January 23, 2018- Archeologies of enviroment by Fernanda Morales, Sol de Toluca newspaper, Mexico.
January 23, 2018- Archeologies of enviroment by Fernanda Morales, Portal Journal newspaper, Mexico.
January 20, 2018- It´s inaugurated in Toluca the show: Archeologies of enviroment, Portal Journal newspaper, Mexico.
May 2017- Time, Digital Magazine 'La Astilla en el ojo', Colombia.
March 2017- Fernanda Morales / Five paintings, Rojo Siena Editorial Magazine.
April 2017- Art Works by Fernanda Morales, Monolito Literary Magazine.
December 2016- Biennial 'Parameter 02' Arte Lumen, Printed catalogue of selected work.
September 2016- Kozmic Blues: between control / uncontrol, Group show digital catalogue.
December 2015 - 'Parameter 01' Arte Lumen Call, Printed catalogue of selected work.

COURSES AND SEMIN AR

2018- Seminar: Contemporary and Current Art, CENART, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico.
2018- Portfolio construction and self-promotion, Javier Marín Foundation, Mexico.
2017- Seminar: What else could we talk about? Interlocutions on violence and drug trafficking in the contemporary image, Faculty of Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
2017- International Symposium Transdisciplinarity in creative projects, Postgraduate in Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
2017- Warburg International Symposium (in / on) America: translations and projections, University Museum Contemporary Art and the Institute of Aesthetic Research, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016- Seminar: Towards a critical question of painting as a medium, Postgraduate in Art History, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Taught by Daniel Montero Fayad.