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![Oscar Lopez Rivera looks up at mural of his portrait painted on black background.]()
el Regalo de los Reyes
Mural welcoming former political prisoner Oscar López Rivera to his hometown of San Sebastián.
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Love Lessons
2008 painting commissioned by The People’s Forum, “Love Lessons” is a meditation on education as a tool for resistance and the struggle for a dignified education. Acrylic on canvas, 8×8’.
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![Augmented Reality superimposes a Taino batey with floating petrolyphs on an urbanscape.]()
Barrio Batey
Barrio Batey is an augmented reality installation as part of Mi Querido Barrio, an AR exhibition organized by the Caribbean Cultural Center in East Harlem. It superimposes a Taíno Batey over two sites in El Barrio.
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![Two women, Frida Kahlo and Julia de Burgos sit holding hands in front of the green and red Mexican flag and the blue and red Puerto Rican flag, with exposed hearts.]()
Soldaderas
Yasmin’s 2011 mural tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos at el Modesto “Tin” Flores Community Garden in El Barrio/ East Harlem.
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![Painted image of swirling blues and lavenders as a whirlpool with the images of women and queer people of color.]()
Mothers of the Motherless
This 2008 work was commissioned for the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered People at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. Acrylic and cowries on canvas, 10 × 10’.
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![A series of black doors with bright painted portraits on each panel.]()
Soul Rebels
The Soul Rebels installation was part of El Museo del Barrio’s 2005 Bienal: The (S) Files. 8 painted panels celebrating poets and musicians were installed on the museum’s Heckscher Theater doors in the lobby.
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![Three figures of Haitian sugar cane cutters with cane and machete in hand and cane field in the background.]()
Visiones de Quisqueya
This painting series, on permanent view at Cornell University’s Latino Studies Program Offices was created as the artist’s 1997 Cornell Council for the Arts Project inspired by her trip to the Dominican Republic as part of Professor Hector Vélez’ class.
Above is a selection of Murals and Public Works by Yasmin Hernandez. Page in development. Coming soon, a description and detailed images of each project.