Luka Amaru Fernandez

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Born in 2000 in San Jose, California, and raised in Latin America, Luka Amaru Fernandez is a self-taught artist based in San Francisco. Ranging in medium from watercolor and ink to pastels and oil paint, he specializes in two dimensional media. Drawing from a variety of influences including pre-hispanic Peruvian art, children's picture books, and Latin American surrealism, his work explores themes of animality, ambiguous identities, and magical realism.
He works as an art teacher at Art School of SF Bay and runs the Human Artistry Hub at Queer Arts Featured.