Photo by Katy Anderson. Courtesy of Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

 

Guadalupe Hernandez (b.1993) is a Texas-based multidisciplinary artist who earned his MFAfrom Houston Baptist University in 2021. Hernandez was born in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, before relocating to Pleasanton, TX, a small city south of San Antonio, in 1998. Despite the move to the United States, Hernandez maintained a deep connection to his Mexican heritage and customs through time-honored familial traditions.

Hernandez’s practice examines themes of family, labor, and cultural practices through a series of paintings and works of cut paper inspired by Papel Picado. Most recently, Hernandez was awarded the Nest Heritage Craft prize for his efforts to preserve and push forward the Mexican folk art tradition of Papel Picado. Hernandez is the current visiting artist with the Art Students League of Denver. He was notably among six pairs of visual artists in the 2022 US Latinx Art Forum Mentorship Program supporting an intergenerational skill exchange. He has also participated in artist residencies with institutions such as the Asia Society Texas Center and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft.

Hernandez's works have been exhibited at the Chicano Park Museum, San Diego, CA; Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX; The McNay, San Antonio, TX; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX.

Hernandez's works are in the permanent collections of the City of San Antonio Public Collection, San Antonio, TX; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.