

Public Projects
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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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El Regalo de los Reyes
Mural welcoming former political prisoner of 35 years Oscar López Rivera to his hometown after being released from federal prison in 2017. WLRP – Radio Raíces 1460 AM. San Sebastián, PR.
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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, the main courtyard of El Museo del Barrio and the Plaza of Taíno Towers.
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Soldaderas
Yasmin’s 2011 mural tribute to Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos, and Mexican/ Puerto Rican Solidarity, is inspired by Kahlo’s double portrait “Las dos Fridas.” Modesto “Tin” Flores Community Garden, Lexington Avenue, El Barrio/ East Harlem.
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Student Activism- Columbia University
This series of five mixed-media panels was commissioned by Columbia's Intercultural Resource Center in 2008 to commemorate 40 years of student activism at Columbia University.
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Mothers of the Motherless
This 2008 work was commissioned for the Edmonia Lewis Center for Women and Transgendered People at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. It envisions a whirlpool of sea water and cowrie shells with the images of cis, queer and trans people who have nurtured/ mothered so many communities. Acrylic and cowries on canvas, 10 × 10’.
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Soul Rebels
The Soul Rebels installation was part of El Museo del Barrio’s 2005 Bienal: The (S) Files. 8 painted panels celebrating revolutionary poets and musicians of influence to the East and West Harlem communities were installed on the museum’s Heckscher Theater doors in the lobby. 8 mixed media panels on Masonite 76 x 19”.
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Visiones de Quisqueya
This painting series, on permanent This painting series on permanent view at Cornell University’s Latino Studies Program Offices was created in 1997 with a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts. It is inspired by a 1996 trip to the Dominican Republic with a class led by Professor Hector Vélez.
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.