Angel Fernandez was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He grew up in the northern region of Chihuahua before immigrating to Fort Worth, Texas. From an early age, he accompanied his uncle to his fabrication shop where Fernandez was exposed to object making at an early age. Desert and mountains were always visible from his childhood home, a landscape that currently greatly influences his work.

Fernandez attended Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a concentration in sculpture. Fernandez moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts where he attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture. 

Fernandez has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, at Tarrant County College at the Southeast and Northwest campuses. His current position is Professor of Art at Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus in downtown Fort Worth. During his one-year Faculty Development Leave he researched and traveled the Big Bend. The vast landscape and beauty of this region has attracted Fernandez and his wife, Winter Rusiloski, an abstract painter influenced by the same landscape. They have bought a 40-acre property in Terlingua Ranch where they are building a small studio.

Notable exhibitions include CICA Museum-Contemporary Drawing Exhibition in in South Korea, Third Coast Biennial Juried Exhibition, Corpus Christi, Texas, Tejano at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, The Texas Oklahoma Art Prize at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art, Studio Visit Magazine, and Art Santa Fe. Cohn Drennan Contemporary in Dallas represented Fernandez’s work from 2011 to 2015.