Fidencio Fifield-Perez:  Far Away Is Still Somewhere

Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez’s interdisciplinary practice centers the materiality of paper ephemera, everyday self- documents discarded after having fulfilled their purpose. For Fifield-Perez, printmaking, collage, and painting are ways to visualize and connect mental landscapes of past and present.

Fifield-Perez received his BFA from Memphis College of Art and an MA & MFA from The University of Iowa. He has exhibited at multiple institutions including The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, International Print Center New York. He has completed artist residencies at The Studios at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow, ACRE, Crosstown Arts, and the Galveston Artist Residency, among others. He has been awarded the Eliza Moore Fellowship at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, 2024 McKnight Printmaking Fellowship, the inaugural Dr. Harold R. Adams Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at The University of Minnesota and is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at University of California-Davis.