Design, Type, and Illustration by Kiana Fernandez
Curation by Mary Escalante
Title & Blocks Exhibited at Fugue Gallery NYC (September 2025)
“What Do Women Want” was an exhibition that explored body surrealism and female antics through call-and-response.
By crowdsourcing answers to the question “what do women want?”, each response became a “part of the body”, inspired by the exquisite corpse technique and remixable toy doll blocks.
grouphug events (2025–) / Workshops
Event Coordination by grouphug members: Kiana Fernandez, Steph Wu, abeleba, Maya Meissner
Phytograms - Video by Olivia Acuña, Shakti MB, Kiana Fernandez, Laura Alvarez Roa, and participants from Phytograms workshop
Keychains - Images by Sab Lau
Photowalk - Video by Suzie Maez
Mario Paint - Video by Michael Jensen and participants from grouphug Issue 02 launch
Gatherings as an extension of “grouphug magazine”, featuring the artists of our pages in real-life spaces, sharing ways to create - from photo walks, illustrating through Mario Paint, stick and poke tattooing, tatreez, woodblock printing, phytograms, and more.
An attempt to be in a room together.
Brunette Champion (2025) / Poster
By Kiana Fernandez (Design, Photography, & Type)
Created a music magnet board inspired poster for Brunette Champion’s winter show, and then made an actual magnet board.
We’ll Be Alright (2024) / Music Video
Shot, Directed, and Edited by Kiana Fernandez
Music by Damian Taxidermi
A stop motion on staying in, creating vignettes of objects in people’s bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, closets, couches, and bedside tables. Shot across 20+ apartments in NYC using one Digital Camera and 50+ double-A Batteries.
Dog Omen (2024) / Website & Poster
By Kiana Fernandez (Design, Internet, Layout)
8 Ball Community Zine Fair (October 2023 & 2024)
Bad Student Zine Fair (November 2025)
Read.Copy x All St Gallery Zine Fair (December 2025)
DogOmen.com is an ongoing archive of dog internet findings (ranging from homepages of Geocities to TikTok screenshots to meme pages), categorizing our interactions with dogs IRL and URL as prophetic significance, a sign from the universe. Through a random redirection of links, DogOmen.com grants you a message through the presence of Dog.
DogOmen.com is an observation on the rise of “hope core”, an internet aesthetic and philosophy that focuses on “finding feeling” through “cute”, “silly”, or “wholesome” imagery, as well the increasing spiritual awareness spread through the web, TikTok tarot card readings, “Double Tap To Claim This Message” and “If You’re Seeing This, It Is For A Reason” social media messaging, etc. Written text is pulled from existing online readings and paired with complementary imagery.
Warm Lighters (2024) / Hand-laminated BIC Lighters, double-sided
By Kiana Fernandez (Design, Crowdsourcing)
8 Ball Community Zine Fair (October 2023 & 2024)
Bad Student Zine Fair (November 2025)
Read.Copy x All St Gallery Zine Fair (December 2025)
"Warm Lighters" is a project that highlights crowdsourced, anonymous responses to the prompt, “Describe what ‘warm’ is to you, in a word or words”.
<3 (2022) / Short Film
By Kiana Fernandez (Directing, 16MM)
Mono No Aware Screening @ Anthology Film Archives (February 2022)
Film Church (December 2023)
Dizzy Magazine’s “HOME VIDEOS” Collection (January 2024)
Inspired by a scene from Agnès Varda’s “Uncle Yanco” that captures an embrace through a plastic heart, “<3” continues on this framework and highlights moments of simple love in real-time. Specifically, in Prospect Park, captured in sweet observation.
Photography (2023–)