La Frontera/The Border: An Interdisciplinary Examination

Luis G. Hernandez

Luis G. Hernandez is an artist and curator who lives and works between Southern California and Mexicali, Mexico. Hernandez’ aesthetic production consists of sculptures, paintings, drawing, collages, and installations that respond in subtle ways to the space where they are exhibited. The artist makes provocative, humorous, and many times absurd associations between context, materials, and language, working through these elements as if they were sculptural spaces, and incorporating subject matter that points to art history, politics, and international border issues.

In 2006 Luis Hernandez and Ed Gomez founded the MexiCali Biennial, a non-profit that grants exposure to artists and locations often overlooked in the contemporary arts of Southern California and Mexico. The MexiCali Biennial remains to serve not only as a curatorial/art project, but also as a satirical platform upon which to question the abundance of biennials occurring around the globe and the impact they have on the art community. The last edition of the MexiCali Biennial took place in 2013 and was held at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Jaus Gallery, Santa Monica; Mexicali Rose: Centro de Artes/Medios, Mexicali; and Facultad de Artes, UABC, Campus Mexicali. 

Recent exhibitions include: 4 Projects in Mexico, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany; Acciones Territoriales, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City; Secondary Inspection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Radical Localism, Artist Space, New York; III Bienal, Ciudad Juarez-El Paso, Biennial 2013, El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juarez; Facing the Sublime in Water, CA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; and Signos, Sentidos y Deseo: Arte Contemporaneo en Baja California, la coleccion Elias Fontes, IIC-Museo UABC, Mexicali, Mexico. 

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