Endurance: Jennifer Fernandez
May 2-31, 2026
Through sculpture and video, Endurance explores a throughline from the age of exploration to the present-day colonization of Antarctica. Named after Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship The Endurance, the show’s title highlights the resilience of the land, ice, and animals that endure despite ongoing environmental degradation in and around Antarctica today.
Jennifer Fernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Shoreline, Washington. Her sculptural work has exhibited nationally. Her paintings have shown at various galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest as well as at the Frye Museum Store and are held in collection by the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Her short stories have appeared in the Penn Review, Fjords Review, and Moss, and her creative nonfiction piece "The Cuban Brown Rabbit" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the recipient of the Edwin T. Pratt Scholarship, a City of Seattle's Office of Arts & Culture grantee, a Puffin Foundation grantee, and was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2023). She is currently working towards her MFA at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
Supported by The Puffin Foundation and 4Culture