OJOSEXO STUDIO, founded by LA-based mixed-media artist Mike Fernandez, blends his fashion background with visual art. After nearly a decade in New York as a wardrobe stylist, hairstylist, and groomer, Mike turned to photography, working in digital, polaroid, and 35mm formats. His work explores themes of homoeroticism and graphic typography and has evolved to include collages that juxtapose found imagery into striking narratives. A Fine Arts and Vidal Sassoon academy alum, Mike showcases his art through exhibitions and publications while continuing to work as a hair and makeup artist.
“There’s a particular intimacy that I attempt to translate into my art. My work is sentimental and nostalgic for a bygone, romanticized and innocent era. I photograph my subjects and locations in a sort of vintage, pin-up-esque style. Finding inspiration in the city’s cracks, its sun-bleached retro signs, its deco moldings, whatever remnants I can find contrasting new with old, contemporary with classic. My art combines these visual elements to create digital art, paper-cut, collages, light boxes, sculptures, and apparel designs.
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Exhibitions and Publications
July 2022, Cute Gloom Group Show exhibition, Lauren Powell Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, ”Payaso Exploited”, 5”x7” mixed media, ceramic frame with found, digitally altered image, with painted, acrylic overlay,
March 2022, New Mythology Group Show exhibition, Steven Arnold, Mike Fernandez, Daniel Morowitz, Lauren Powell Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, 13, 11”x17”, mixed media, photo paper collages with acrylic, colored, photo gel overlays
Feb 2022, “Blue Boy”, singer, songwriter Fields for LadyGunn Magazine, photo editorial feature
January 2022, Mike by Mike, singer, song writer Mike Taveira for Totem Tienda Magazine, photo editorial feature
Dec 2021, Tom of Finland Art and Culture Festival, Raw Anatomy, Online Viewing room, mixed media piece titled, “Playboy Liquor”, 11”x17” photo paper collage with colored, photo gel, overlay
Dec 2021, Round the Block, Photographs and Collages, Solo Exhibition, solo produced pop up gallery, Los Angeles, 22, 8”x11”, mixed media, photo paper collages with colored, photo gel, overlays
Oct 2021, Iris Covet Magazine, Johnny Sibilly Of HBO’S “Hacks”, photo editorial feature
July 2020, Pineapple Magazine, “Noir Gaze”, photo editorial feature
April 2020, Pineapple Magazine, “For Sadao” photo editorial feature
Feb 2019, Vogue Arabia, “ Freedom Fighter, creative direction, fashion, photo editorial
June 2019, Iris Covet Magazine, ” Nightskin” featuring artist DESAMPA, creative direction, fashion, photo, editorial
April, 2018, King Kong Magazine, “Men like Gods”, creative direction, photo editorial feature