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Ponce Massacre, 2007. Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. Philadelphia, PA. This is a recreation of my Ponce Massacre installation of 1997. The Ponce Massacre took place in Ponce, Puerto Rico, my parents' hometown. The US colonial police chief revoked a pa
Ponce Massacre Installation, 1997, Yasmin Hernandez. Hartell Gallery. Cornell University. Oil/ collage on canvas, 51" x 34", fabric, flowers, candle. This first installation of The Ponce Massacre was part of my BFA Thesis. The Ponce Massacre took pla
Yemaya, 2007. Installation view from gallery entrance. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Yemaya, 2007. Table detail. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to Yoruba deity of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya.
Yemaya, 2007. Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to Yoruba deity of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya.
Yemaya 2006, Yasmin Hernandez. Yemaya installation at the ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Oil on Canvas, 4' x3', fabric, peacock feathers, seashells, sea stones, straw mat, flowers. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Altar to Yoruba deity of motherhood and the sea, Yemaya.
Yasmin organizing seashells and sea stones at Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico, July, 2007.
Yemaya Asesu was my first installation dedicated to Yoruba sea goddess Yemaya, created in collaboration with my cousin Omar at Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia. I experienced my first magic through art when the gallery flooded and created a sea,
detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY.
Ochun Altar 2006. Yoruba art exhibit, ISESE Gallery, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas, Austin. Altar to the yoruba goddess of love and sweetness, Oshun.
Mamita installation at Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn, New York. Detail with candles, flowers, photos, chivitas, casitas, can of colombiana, buñuelo, empanadas and pan de queso, favorites representing my mother-in-law's colombian culture.
detail of the Goddesses installation at the Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Bohio is a tribute to my Taino indigenous ancestors.
Cornell Council for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Mixed media installation dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesania from her native Colombia.
detail, Yemaya and Oshun installations. 4th Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Kimmel Center, New York York University. New York, NY.
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Patrias, Park Slope Brooklyn. Mixed media installation dedicated to my mother-in-law who passed from cancer in 2001. The altar includes traditional foods and artesania from her native Colombia.
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Sobresalientes, 2016. Galeria Betances, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Four acrylic paintings on camouflage fabric and my boys' camouflage pants, size 3T and 4T, barbed wire, found wood. Approx 3' x 5'. Sobresalientes are images of Vieques youth and its envi
Basta installation, Vieques. 2009. Acrylic on military tent, Approx 10' x 8'. Chain link fencing, wire cutters and military debris. For this 2009 edition of my Basta installation, the fence is cut down as the people of Vieques did when they cut dow
2016 Bieké sobresaliente series. Acrylic on my son's camouflage pants, size 3T. This image is of a little girl I once saw playing in Esperanza beach when I was six months pregnant with my first son and still researching for my Vieques project in 20
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Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10' 2007 debut of the Basta installation at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with
Yasmin organizing seashells and sea stones at Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico, July, 2007.
detail, Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10' 2007 debut of the Basta installation at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met
Yemaya, 2007. Installation view from gallery entrance. Museo Casa Escuté, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
Contaminados. Bieke series. Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years
detail, Contaminados, 2009 detail: Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+
2009 detail: Flower petals in 10 of my brother's former Chemotherapy drug transport bags, 7' x 4'. Museo Fuerte Conde de Mirasol, Vieques, Puerto Rico. This is a commentary on the contamination & cancer rates resulting from 60+ years of the US Navy'
Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10' 2007 debut of the Basta installation at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with
Acrylic on drab green US military canvas tent, approx 8' x 10' 2007 debut of the Basta installation at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. Dedicated to Vieques, the painting is of Yaurel Figueroa, who was 9 years old at the time. I met him with
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