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.
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