Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a leading Latin American artist who has lived and worked in Sydney since the mid 1990s. She graduated from Yale University with a Masters degree in Sculpture in 1990, and a BA from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota in 1985. She has exhibited widely in over 25 countries in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Fundacion La Caixa in Barcelona, the Centro Reina Sofia in Madrid and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, among many others. In 2011 she begun a PHD candidature at Sydney University, specializing in art and science.
Her early work is materials based and since the early 1990s she has specialized in making “animal art”, as she is drawn by the human/animal connection. One of her most renown projects, the Cardoso Flea Circus, premiered in 1995 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, an art and science institution in California. The project toured the world in Museums and festivals, and it was last seen at the Sydney Opera House in 2000 a sold out season in 2000. The Cardoso Flea Circus (the tent installation) is in collection of the Tate Gallery in London, while some of the flower pieces belong to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sand Diego, and the Miami Art Museum.
In 2004 she represented Colombia at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting a large installation of starfish titled Woven Water, which are now part of the collection of the National Art Gallery in Camberra and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
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- Date written:
- 2012
- Last updated:
- 2012
