NEREIDA GARCIA FERRAZ
http://www.nereidagarciaferraz.com/ Studio at Fountainhead. Miami
Painter, photographer and video maker graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Ryerson Traveling Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1985 and in 1998.
The Ford Foundation, 1994. Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship in 1985, 1986, 1989 Mac Arthur Foundation Media Grant in 1994 as well as The Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 – 2001. Nominated to Anonymous Was a Woman.2013
Has taught at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The San Francisco Art Institute, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Has also been a resident/visiting artist in many Art Schools and Museums. Currently works at MOCA’s Women on the Rise a unique program for teen girls that teaches them about the work of contemporary women artists as a way to engages them into critical conversations about art making and body image.
and Miami Art Museum’s Brick X Brick Education Program, working with youth on issues of Urban Design and Architecture, also at the Idea Lab at BASS Art Museum in Miami. Founded in 1998 The Photography Program at MACLA, San Jose California .
Her works have been exhibited in numerous Museums and Galleries around the US and abroad. Among them:
Chicago Art 1945-1995 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Paisajes de Ida y Vuelta, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, FOCI Illinois State Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico City, Islip Museum among others.
Co-Produced and directed the award winner video-documentary Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra.” is in the collection of MOMA, Guggenheim Museum, Yale University, San Francisco Art Institute and many other Museums and Universities around the world.

Recent EXHIBITS.
Concrete Paradise, Coral Gables Museum. until Jan 2014
Antonia Eiriz, The Artist and her Audience, curated by Michelle Weinberg. MDC Museum of Art and Design. Until Nov 15 2013
Cintas Finalist Exhibition, Museum of Art And Design, MDC, Miami 2012
Drawings. School House Gallery, Provincetown Mass. 2012
Far and Near, Cuban Art in Bay Area Collections, MACLA, San Jose California. 2011
Matinee, 801 Projects Miami 2011
Imagining of Place. Solo Exhibit. Santa Fe College, Gainesville Florida ,2009
Art of Uncertainty. Edge Zones. Miami- Santo Domingo, 2009
8 X 8 Inter American Campus Miami Dade College, 2009
Incomplete Archives 801 Projects, Miami 2009
Dialogues in Cuban Art. The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2009
Drawing Center Viewing Program New York City
Why Are We Here? 801 Projects Miami, 2008
Fortuna , La Bodega Space.Miami, 2008
MOD 11 Bass Fisher Invitational Gallery Miami, 2007
Here and There: Deterritorializing Miami and Havana..Solo exhibit Cushing Martin Gallery Stonehill College, Boston, 2007
IMAGINING PLACE, Solo exhibit Santa Fe Gallery .Gainesville Florida, 2007
Beyond Boundaries, Gallery One, Washenaw College, Ann Arbor Michigan
Beyond Havana, Solo Exhibit, Bettsher Gallery. Miami
Cuban Art in New York AT DACTYL FOUNDATIOlN GALLERY, NY, NY.