Anaida Hernández (born 1954) is a Puerto Rican (was born in the city of Moca) to an agriculture family. She was born to Benjamin Hernandez Vargas and Carmen Hernandez. She is a sculptor, painter,

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, documentary director, and

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. She was an active member of the and is considered as being a pioneer in addressing

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via

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Caribbean and Latin American art.

Biography

She obtained a

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in art from the

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's Mayagüez campus in 1974 and then attended the

National Autonomous University of Mexico The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public university, public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countri ...

Academy of San Carlos An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the ...

with

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, graduating in 1977 with a master's degree in

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. In 1979, she began work at the

Interamerican University of Puerto Rico The Inter American University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: ''Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico''; often abbreviated to ''UIPR'' or ''Inter'') is a private Christian university with its main campus in San Germán, Puerto Rico. It also has ...

as an art teacher on the San Germán campus and then for the

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from 1980 to 1982, where she spearheaded a researched project into the manufacture of paper with seaweed. In her work as an artist, she has used the female body to explore erotic themes, power and gender relations, immigration, and domestic violence. Hernández worked on topics of

and

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from 1990 because of a Puerto Rican journalistic report that typified femicide in the same year. In that report, she found the names of 100 women murdered on

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from January to June 1993 and, because of the climate of pressure on Puerto Rican lawmakers to amend certain laws, Hernández decided to begin on the piece ''Until Death Do Us Part'', made up of boxes engraved with the name of each of the named women. Of the project Hernández wrote "the strength and spirit of these murdered women has been carried to all corners of the world with the hope that violence, in any of its manifestations, will be eradicated from the face of the earth."

Exhibitions

Individual

*1989: ''Bestiario: Los monstruos que todos llevamos adentro''. Convent of the Dominicans,

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, Puerto Rico. *1990: ''Símbolos de San Juan''. Gallery of the Art Students' League, San Juan, Puerto Rico. *1997: ''The Ceremony: Petitions, Riddles and Conundrums''. SinTítulo: Gallery of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico. *1999: ''Juegos Ilegales / Illegal Games''.

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, New York City and Grand Central Art Center, Main Gallery,

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, California, United States of America. *1999: ''Secretos compartidos''. Tenement Museum, New York City. *2000: ''Adivina Adivinador: Colindancias'' and ''Riddle me this''. Galería Petrus Galerus,

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, Puerto Rico. *1994–2000: ''Hasta que la Muerte nos Separe''.

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and Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1994); Museum of Fine Arts,

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(1994);

Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum The Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum is an art museum in Aachen, Germany. Founded in 1877, its collection includes works by Aelbrecht Bouts, Joos van Cleve, Anthony van Dyck, Otto Dix and Max Beckmann. History The ' (Aachen museum association) was create ...

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, (Germany) and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, San José, Costa Rica (1995);

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and the

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Art Gallery, New York City (1998). It has since become a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Puerto Rican Art (2004). *1989–2000: ''Dibujos y Grabados 1989 a 2000''. John Cotton Dana Library,

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, USA. *1994–2000: ''Retrospectiva: Adivina adivinador, quien soy, Diez y nueve Instalaciones''.

Hostos Community College Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York is a public community college in the South Bronx, New York City. It is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system and was created by an act of the Board ...

, New York City. *2001: ''Cross Pollination: 50 NY Sculptors/50 California Sculptors''. Travelling Exhibition: California, London, Holland Tunnel Gallery,

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, New York. *2002: ''Espacio Compartido: Anaida Hernández y Rosa Irigoyen''.

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, Washington D.C., USA. *2002: ''Anaida Hernández. Fórmula secreta: Pinturas recientes''. Galería Pintadera, San Juan, Puerto Rico. *2004: ''Código Secreto''. Museum of Puerto Rican Art, Santurce, Puerto Rico. Museum of Puerto Rican Art biography: Exhibitions *2006: ''Seducción=Poder''. Galería-Obra Alegría, San Juan, Puerto Rico. *2007: ''Maya''. Eugenio María de Hostos Museum, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. *2010: ''Sentidos y Engaños''. Caribbean University, Bayamón, Puerto Rico.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hernandez, Anaida Living people 1954 births National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni People from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 20th-century Puerto Rican sculptors Puerto Rican painters Puerto Rican women sculptors Puerto Rican women painters 21st-century American women 21st-century Puerto Rican sculptors