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Max, 2024, Yasmin Hernandez Art, Portraits from the Trench, Rematriating Borikén

Yasmin with "El Cucubano Mayor", Portrait of Rafael Cancel Miranda 2020

Baby Josef as Angler Fish, 2021, Yasmin Hernandez Art, Portraits from the Trench, Rematriating Borikén

Yasmin Hernandez with detail of "Love Lessons", commissioned by The Peoples Forum, NYC 2018

Yasmin Painting the CucubaNación Mural, Mayaguez, 2018

De-debt Decolonize 2017, Yasmin Hernandez Art

La Transmutación del Alma, (Laura Meneses y Albizu Campos) 2016, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Bieké: Sobresalientes, 2016, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Basta, 2009, Bieké Tierra de Valientes, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Yemaya Installation 2007, Casa Museo Escuté, Carolina, PR, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Querer Ser Libre (Dylcia Pagan), 2006, Yasmin Hernandez Art

Dylcia Pagán, Eddie Palmieri, Yasmin and Ivan

Yasmin with her Soul Rebels Fela Kuti and Bob Marley portraits at El Museo del Barrio 2005

The Ponce Massacre, 1997, Yasmin Hernandez Art.

Art, Rematriation, Liberation, Brooklyn to Borikén...

Brooklyn-born and raised/ Borikén-based, Yasmín Hernández is an artist, writer, educator and cultural organizer whose work is rooted in liberation practices. Her 2009 project Bieké: Tierra de Valientes, honoring activists who ended US Navy maneuvers on Vieques, introduced her to bioluminescence, transformed her vision and aesthetics, and inspired her 2014 move to Borikén. Spending four months without electricity following Hurricane María, fireflies of those dark nights reignited her interest in bioluminescence. Reflecting on the perpetual darkness of power outages, climate change and colonialism, in 2018 she launched CucubaNación, a painting series that began with a mural in Mayagüez. In 2022 CucubaNación expanded into a store-front art space, directly across from the mural. Serving as her studio, gallery, art shop and community art space, it is dedicated to the liberatory lessons of Boricua bioluminescence. CucubaNación is also host to Rematriating Borikén, Yasmin's project exploring the decolonial journey home in aesthetics inspired by the Puerto Rico Trench.