Lavanderia #6
Artist
Fernandez, Christina
American, b. 1965
Date2002-2003
MediumArchival pigment print
DimensionsFrame: 33 x 43 x 1 1/2 in. (83.8 x 109.2 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2025:128
Collections
About the ArtistChristina Fernandez, a Los Angeles–based artist and educator, has built a three-decade career exploring migration, labor, and Mexican American identity through conceptually layered photography. Continuing her sustained focus on Mexican American women and working-class communities, her Lavanderia series (2002–2003) examines East Los Angeles laundromats as extensions of the home and markers of working-class life. Comprising eight vividly geometric photographs taken from the street, the series emphasizes façades as both literal architecture and metaphorical screens. She presents them as structures that simultaneously reveal and conceal the labor, domesticity, and cultural histories within. - Recent acquisitions
Christina Ferndandez’s work has been featured in major exhibitions, including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2008, 2017), and most recently at the Whitney Museum and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her nationally touring retrospective Multiple Exposures (2022–25) received wide critical acclaim, with its accompanying catalogue earning awards from the Thoma Foundation, the International Latino Book Awards, and the Independent Publisher Awards. Fernandez is a 2021 Latinx Artist Fellowship recipient, and her work resides in prominent collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, MoMA, LACMA, MOCA Los Angeles, SFMOMA, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She also serves as associate professor and co-chair of photography at Cerritos College in California.
