Mike Fernandez is a Los Angeles–based mixed-media artist working under OJOSEXO STUDIO. Inspired by design and its underlying systems, his work reflects a clean, constructed visual language grounded in composition and surface.
Working within the evolving body of work he calls Formworks, Fernandez builds with pieces. Morning meditations transform hand-cut cardstock into small, intimate compositions—balancing color, weight, and negative space. The language is clear and graphic: color carries feeling, geometry sets the tempo.
Using organic and architectural forms as building blocks, these collages serve as templates for larger-scale paintings in acrylic and plaster, where flat compositions expand into dimensional forms.
Raised in California, Fernandez exhibited alongside his ceramicist father at age eleven—an early influence on his sensitivity to shape, color, and form. After studying fine arts and spending nearly a decade in New York as an editorial hairstylist, he is now based in Los Angeles, balancing his work as an on-set hair and makeup artist with his art and design studio.
Exhibitions and PRESS
November 2025, This is Art Right? Show, Solo Exhibition, Winston Studios, Los Angeles
August-October 2025, BBA 360 Group Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Berlin
May -September 2025, Sports VII: CRYIN’ AT THE GYM, The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
May 2025, “Two’s A Crowd”, Group Exhibition, Tiger Strike Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
November 2024, Ace Hotel's Globally Artist in Residency Finalist
November 2024, Icon-ic, Group Exhibition, Covet Gallery, Oceanside, CA
October 2024, The NEXT, Art Show, Group Exhibition, Covet Gallery, Oceanside, CA
July 2022, Cute Gloom Group Show exhibition, Lauren Powell Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
March 2022, New Mythology Group Show exhibition, Steven Arnold, Mike Fernandez, Daniel Morowitz, Lauren Powell Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
November 2025, Collé Magazine, Artist interview
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
Dec 2021, Round the Block, Photographs and Collages, Solo Exhibition, solo produced pop up gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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
Education
Vidal Sassoon Academy, Los Angeles – 2010
Sacramento City College – Associate of Fine Arts (AFA), 2008