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Kiana Fernandez is an interdisciplinary artist and art director. She currently works at Wieden + Kennedy NY and is a documentary art resident at Union Docs. Graduated from the Texas Creative Portfolio Sequence in the nation's #1 portfolio program at the University of Texas at Austin, she now resides in Brooklyn, NY as a full-time <3er.
Questions, collaborations, work inquiries, <3, </3, <333? Feel free to reach out.
Resume/CV
kianafer@gmail.com
@kianafer
❤︎ Exhibited at 8Ball Community Zine Fair 2024
★ 2024 James Beard Award for Commercial Media for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
★ 2024 Webby Award Winner for Best Branded Podcast or Segment for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
★ 2024 Shorty Awards Gold Honor in Campaign by Diverse-Owned Businesses, Art & Culture Podcast for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
★ 2024 One Show Radio & Audio Merit Award for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
▶ “<3” selected for Dizzy Magazine’s 2024 “HOME VIDEOS”
▶ “Rainbow Bridge” screened at the MOMA 2023
▶ “<3” selected for Film Church 2023
★ 2023 Adweek for Best Branded Podcast for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
★ 2023 Signal Awards Winner for Best Host (Silver), Listeners Choice in the category Best Writing (Silver), Listeners Choice in the category Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (Bronze) for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
★ 2023 International Women’s Podcasting Awards for Moment of Entrepreneurial Inspiration for Heinz: Black Kitchen Series
❤︎ “GAH&STAOATOOWICGRN” Exhibited at Sounds About Riso 2022
▶ “<3” Film screened at Anthology Film Archives 2022
★ 2022 Webby Winner in Diversity & Inclusion for Nike FM
✎ Featured in Adweek Champions Issue June 2020
★ Won Goodby Silverstein & Partner’s Brief for Respond2Racism for MAIP’s Virtual Engagement Program 2020
★2020 Recipient of Working Not Working’s & The Ethel’s Club Dream Investment Fund in Partnership with Jezz Chung
★ 2020 Gold Austin Addys
✎ Featured on Ads of the World 2020❤︎ Led Art Curation & Production Design for $25k Grant Museum of Color through The Color Complex: Featured on Texas Global, The Daily Texan, The Color Complex Online
✎ Featured in AfterGlow ATX for Visual Poems
★ 2019 Silver AAF District Addys
★ 2019 Gold AAF Addys
★ 2019 Silver AAF District Addys
★ 2019 Gold AAF Addys
★ 2019 Bronze AAF District Addys
★ 2019 Silver AAF Addys
✎ Featured in Steve Madden Magazine
✎ Featured in RookieMag
*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚ Most likely to be the Fairy Princess of Texas Creative (Quite possibly my proudest achievement)
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