Elizabeth Hernández (born 1993) is a Mexican-born American visual artist and designer. She works many mediums including in painting, murals, ceramics, and embossed aluminum sculpture.
She lives in
Oakland
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major West Coast port, Oakland is ...
, California.
Biography
Her husband and sometimes artistic collaborator is artist Ryan Whelan.
In 2023, she and Whelan exhibited at "A Weed By Any Other Name" at the newly opened
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) in the
Dogpatch
Dogpatch was the fictional setting of cartoonist Al Capp's classic comic strip ''Li'l Abner'' (1934–1977).
''Li'l Abner'' comic strip
The inhabitants of Dogpatch were mostly lazy hillbillies, who usually wanted nothing to do with progress. ...
.
Her work is part of the museum collections at the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...
,
and the
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF),
comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. FAMSF's combined attendance was 1,1 ...
.
Exhibitions
* 2015 – "Tortillería Horizontal", site specific group project, Mexico City, Mexico
* 2020 – "Talisman: Liz Hernández", Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, California
* 2021 – "Californisme Partie 2", Bim Bam Gallery, Paris, France
* 2022 – "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves",
Contemporary Jewish Museum
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the histori ...
, San Francisco, California
* 2022 – "Bay Area Walls", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California
* 2023 – "A Weed By Any Other Name",
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF), San Francisco, California
* 2023 – "Shifting the Silence", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California
See also
*
Chicana art
Chicana art emerged as part of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s. It used art to express political and social resistance through different art mediums. Chicana artists explore and interrogate traditional Mexican-American values and embody feminist ...
References
External links
* Podcast
Episode 54: Liz Hernández(2021), from The (art)Scene
1993 births
Artists from Mexico City
Mexican emigrants to the United States
Artists from Oakland, California
21st-century Mexican artists
21st-century Mexican women artists
Living people
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