Photo: Ryan Whelan
Liz Hernández (b. 1993, Mexico City, Mexico) creates art rooted in storytelling, using painting, sculpture, and textiles to blur the boundary between the real and the imagined. Writing anchors her practice; each series begins with a short story that guides the creation of handcrafted objects and images.

Her work engages both personal and collective narratives, often centered on memory, womanhood, and transformation. Driven by material experimentation, she studies ancestral techniques such as embroidery and repujado, reinterpreting these Mexican craft traditions to shape a visual language of her own.

She has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, and KADIST.


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Press


Education

BFA Design, with distinction
California College of the Arts
2011


Exhibitions

Hermana, Hermano, Hermanx
Et al. etc.
San Francisco, CA
2025

Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow)

Institute of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
2025

Objects of Inquiry: The Office for the Study of the Ordinary
San Francisco State Fine Arts Gallery, 
San Francisco, CA
2025

Imagined Vessels
Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
2025

Folds, group exhibition
Personal Space 
Vallejo, CA

BODIES
Mepaintsme Gallery, 
Online
2025

News from Nowhere,
The Armory Show
New York, NY
2024

SLIGHT OF HAND: Small Works Invitational
Mepaintsme Gallery,
Online.

2024

Población de la máscara (Population of the mask)
Jack Hanley Gallery
New York, NY
2024

Pictures at an exhibition, Commissioned work for the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, CA.

Crafting Radicality, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. 

En el país de la memoria (In the Country of Memory), Pt.2 Gallery,  Oakland, CA.

As Yet and Still to Come
Tiger Strikes Asteriod
Los Angeles, CA
2023

Fight and Flight: Crafting a Bay Area life
Museum of Craft and Design
San Francisco, CA
2023

Rituals of Devotion
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
2023

A Weed by Any Other Name, duo show with Ryan Whelan
Institute of Contemporary Art
 San Francisco, CA
2023

Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State
Governor's Mansion State Historic Park
Sacramento, CA
2022

Donde las flores moradas lloran (Where the purple flowers cry)
Pt.2 Gallery 
Oakland, CA
2022

Shifting the Silence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
2022

Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
2022

Solo presentation
ZSONAMACO México Arte Contemporáneo
Mexico City, Mexico
2022

Compás 88 en Clavo Feria Art Week
Mexico City, Mexico
2022


Californisme Partie 2
Bimbam Gallery
Paris, France.
2021

Represented Group Exhibition
Pt.2 Gallery
Oakland, CA
2021

Bay Area Walls, Commissioned mural 
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
2021


Talismán
Pt.2 Gallery
Oakland, CA
2020

Friends and Family
Hashimoto Contemporary
San Francisco, CA
2020

November Group Show
Pt.2 Gallery
Los Angeles, CA.
2019

Alma Mater: Methods
Hubbell Street Galleries
San Francisco, CA
2019

Potluck
Hashimoto Contemporary

San Francisco, CA
2019

Provisions
Pt.2 Gallery, 
Oakland, CA
2018

Stay Close Group Show
Legion Projects
San Francisco, CA
2018


KNOW YOU Group Show
Athen B. Gallery
Oakland, CA
2017

Winter Group Show
Hashimoto Contemporary
San Francisco, CA
2017

Sun Bath duo exhibition with Ryan Whelan
Legion Projects
San Francisco, CA
2017

Prácticas de Campo
Casa del Lago UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
2017


a pot is a pot is a pot is a pot,  duo exhibition with Ryan Whelan
Good Mother Gallery
Oakland, CA
2016

Soft Bargain
Good Mother Gallery
Oakland, CA
2015

Tortillería Horizontal
Site specific project
Mexico City, Mexico
2015

Awards & Residencies

Harker Fund Artist in Residence
San Francisco, CA
2024

Google Artist in Residence
Menlo Park, CA 
2021

Facebook Artist in Residence
San Francisco, CA
2019

IMPACT Award Recipient, Center for Art and Public Life at CCA
San Francisco, CA
2015

Creative Achievement Award Recipient, California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA
2011


Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
De Young Museum
KADIST
San Francisco Symphony
Montage Health Foundation
Park Hotel Kenmare
Google
Meta

Publications

Sun Dreams – Art Mirages in Latin America
Act. Editora, São Paulo
Brazil, 2025

Arte à mesa – Diálogos entre arte e comida na América Latina
Act. Editora
São Paulo, Brazil 
2024

Art at The Park: Art Collection at Park Hotel Kenmare
Park Hotel Kenmare 
Kerry, Ireland
2024

Eureka! Creativity in California: Artists of the Golden State at the Governor's Mansion
Exhibition Catalogue
Sacramento, CA
2022

Comer relaciona (y confronta mundos)
Centro Cultural de España en México,
Mexico City, Mexico
2021




Last Updated 12.10.25
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