Liz Fernando

From Trincomalee – Photograph © Liz Fernando

Award-winning fine artist and photographer Liz Fernando is a graduate from the prestigious University of Arts London, and her work mostly finds its roots in conceptual research. Born and raised in Europe, her research, though at a personal as well as academic level delves into the role of photography, highlights the different meanings that photography inhabits, often dealing with the notions of memory, wherein the personal archive inhabits a fundamental space, both aesthetically and practically, within non-western cultures. Fernando’s ideas surround the idea that the objective of a photograph ponders an evolving interplay between its fragile and fugitive existence.

Exhibitions and Collections

Her work was exhibited at Tate Modern, London, and showcased by the leading publisher Photoworks, Brighton. Her highly acclaimed work, Trincomalee – My father’s stories and the lost photographs, was acquired for the private collection of the World Bank Headquarters, in Washington D.C., and is currently in an international traveling exhibition.

Fernando lives and works in Berlin, Hanover, and Colombo. This bio was provided by the artist. A more comprehensive profile will be forthcoming.