Ana Fernandez was born in 1963 and raised in Quito Ecuador.
She graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in Painting. and received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from California College of the Arts.
She explores the intersection between the real and the fantastic through drawing, painting , writing and random street actions.
She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krassner Foundation Award, and was an Artist in Residence at Women’s Studio Workshop , Rosendale New York. She received a grant to develop and Art Program in Yunguilla Ecuador through Center for Art and Public life.
Ana is current Drawing and Painting faculty at the School of Fine Arts Central University Quito, also develops a program to bring Contemporary Ecuadorian Art to rural communities through the Central Bank’s Cultural Department.
Her work has been shown throughout Latin America, Spain , San Francisco and New York, and is in many collections in those countries.
Ana currently divides her time between Quito and San Francisco, CA.