CV / Biography
German Fernandez Cantos was born in Lima, Peru,
graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica
del Peru as graphic designer and artist. As a designer, he has been
part of award-winning projects with the Al Bayan and DMI infographic
teams. As an artist, he has participated in exhibitions in UAE, Peru and
India, as well as having two solo shows at FN Designs gallery in 2013
and 2016 at the cultural district of Alserkal Avenue as well as being
artist-in-residence at the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation in 2024. In his
work he seeks to explore in his works the themes of identity and
communication through characters who appear masked, disguised or
entangled in structures drawn in surreal and unknown environments,
trying to capture vignettes of contemporary life in each scene. He
participated in Sikka previously, in the 2014 edition, co-curated by
Sheikha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum and the Japanese architect Kayoko Iemura.
This year at Sikka -curated by Maktoum Al Maktoum- he is part of the
project WindSails in collaboration with the Lebanese artist Ghada Mehdi.
Currently lives and works in Dubai, as consultant in the field of
information graphics and data visualization.
Recent Studies
-2023 RCA Contemporary Art Summer School
-2022 RCA Executive: Archives and collections and Curation and writing
-2021 Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School
-PUCP, Faculty of Art.
Recent Events
-2025 Sikka Art Fair
-2024 ADH Cultural Foundation Art Residency
-2022 AlSerkal Art Week
-2016 Solo show (FNDesign,AlSerkal)
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