Join us for this rare opportunity to hear from visiting New York artist Fernando Orellana at Union Hall. From robots that hold protests and machines designed for the dead to operate, Fernando Orellana has collaborated with automation for over twenty years to create transmedia artwork. The imagery and narrative that Orellana explores span a spectrum that includes giving agency to automata, embracing the generatively made, celebrating the wonder of absurdity, and is most often driven by the universes of his subconscious mind.

His work will be on view at Union Hall as part of the Tender Machines exhibition from May 4 - July 1, 2023.

Fernando Orellana

(he/him) He received a Master of Fine Art from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Fine Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently an Associate Professor of Digital Art in the Visual Arts Department at Union College. He was born in El Salvador, San Salvador. Fernando has exhibited at a variety of regional, national and international venues, most recently at the Toledo Museum of Art, the Speed Art Museum, the Spring Break Art Show and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art.