Arturo Hernández

Arturo V. Hernández is a mexican visual and sound artist that has tried in several aesthetical languages to explain the complexities of his inner self through and his surroundings, with the use of techniques such as drawing, painting, musical composition, art object, photography and even designer toy object, he embarks in explorations that range from the automatic to the experimental, from the gesture of the subconscious to minimalistic or baroque ephemeral compositions, many of his works share the obsession of trying to grasp the elusive concept of “now-ness”, developing a method of mind-blank automatist body gestures he tries to translate this to different kinds of media, his “automatic faunaes” are some sort of autobiographical gestural drawings that have been developed through several years of work influenced mainly by abstract expressionism, tribal art alongside with arab & japanese calligraphic art and even urban art, they have been developed in traditional paper, mural and electronic media. in his latest work he engages in different kinds of visual experimentation using light painting photography techniques to create visual metaphors of the spiritual auras and energies that surround the human beings and the common places the...

Degree in Graphic Design by The Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts School of Design

Painting & Drawing Exhibitions:

Centro Cultural Rafael Solana del IMSS
Mexico City
Cicatriz / Scar
exposición de autor / Author’s Exhibition
May - June 2000

Centro de Cultura Experimental La Moira
Mexico City
Escarbar la Noche / Digging up the Night
exposición de autor / Author’s Exhibition
June 2002

Centro Cultural Jaime Torres Bodet, IPN
Mexico City
Saudade Guadalupana
exposición de autor / Author’s Exhibition
June - Jully 2003

Observatorio, Centro Experimental
Morelia Michoacán
Arturo Hernández
exposición de autor / Author’s Exhibition
January - February 2004

Exposiciónes Colectivas / Collective Shows / Designer Toy Project

Custom Yoka Show / Gallery Tour 2010 - 2011

Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, California
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Feb 18 – Mar 2 2010

Rivet, Columbus, Ohio
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April 3 – April 25 2010

Howl Gallery, Fort Myers, Florida
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May 7 – May 21 2010

Genuine Arti...