Education
1990 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA B.F.A Fine Arts
1988 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1984 Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1980 Profesorado Nacional de Enseñanza Pre-Escolar Sara Ch. de Eccleston, Buenos Aires,
Argentina B.S. Early Education
Exhibitions
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
2021 Denver Botanic Gardens, CO
Making a Mountain, Boedecker Foundation Path To Excellence Grant, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2020 Gardens of the Château de LaNapoule, LaNapoule Art Foundation, France
Present Box, BMoCA, Boulder, CO
2019 BMoCA at FM, Boulder, CO
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Seidel City, Boulder, CO
Building Bridges, Los Angeles, CA
Glenarm Place, Temporary Public Art, Denver, CO
2016 University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Experiments in Public Art, temporary public art for the City of Boulder, CO
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Colorado Impact Fund, Denver, CO
Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX
2013 Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK
Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO
2012 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 When the Women Sing, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2009 Project Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2008 International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank/Palestine
2006 Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2020 Pink Progression, Arvada Center, CO
2019 Recalling Re/Call, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
Colorado Abstract: Past, Present and Future, Arvada Center, CO
Murmurations: Wingéd Beings Sacred & Profane, First Congregational Church, Boulder, CO
2018 Re/Call, Site-specific project w/Kenneth Robinson at the Land Library
Pink Progression, CVA Denver, Denver Public Library and Boulder Public Library
Imaginary Maps, Boulder, CO
In/Sight, Sherry Leedy Contemporary for Open Spaces Biennial, Kansas City, MO
2017 Las Adas, Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO
2016 Impresión: Modern and Contemporary Latino Prints, Robert and Elaine Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
HOVAB, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
HOVAB, Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Crossing Borders, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2015 Biennial of the Americas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Sculptured and 3-D Paper, 15th Street Gallery, Boulder, CO
Graficas Gallery, Nantucket, MA
2014 Women Printmakers, Regis University, Denver, CO
2013 Area Code, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Ink Paper Scissors, Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
New Neon: Light, Paint, and Photography Bedford Gallery at the Ledger Center For the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2012 Fuera de la Frontera, Arts & Venues Denver, McNichols Building, Denver, CO
The Veil, Visible and Invisible Spaces, traveling throughout the USA for the past five years
2011 The Big Reveal New Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Piece by Piece, United States Department of State, Art Bank Gallery, Washington D.C.
Natural Beauty, Roswell Museum Invitational, Roswell, NM
Altered Nature, Center for the Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO
2010 Denver Biennial, invited Latin American artist by Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
Shark's Ink, Works published by Master Printer Bud Shark, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2009 Pure Pleasure, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Colorado Abstract, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2008 Giving Shelter and The Cradle Project, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Hotel de Inmigrantes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Con Confection, Three Latin American artists at Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
2006 Best of Colorado, Denver International Airport, CO
Extended Remix: The Influence of Decades, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Awards, Scholarships, and other Activities
2021 Recipient of the Boedecker Foundation Path To Excellence Grant
2020 Recipient of the Prix Henry Clews from LaNapoule Art Foundation
2019 Martha Kate Thomas Fund for Artists Grant
Printing with master printmaker Bud Shark from Shark’s Ink.
Teaching and a residency at Château de LaNapoule, LaNapoule Art Foundation, France
Residency at Building Bridges, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Ana María Hernando, Undomesticated, a documentary by A Bar K Productions and Milkhaus
Teaching and a residency at Château de LaNapoule, LaNapoule Art Foundation, France
2016 Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant
Colorado Creative Industries Grant
A Knitting Ballet, a performance choreographed and produced for We Have Flowers, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
2015 Private poetry performance for the Biennial of the Americas
Performance and Poetry Reading for the Biennial of the Americas hosted by Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
Honored Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Spring Banquet
DAM guest artist for In Bloom, Denver, CO
2014 Recipient of the Neodata Visual Artist Fellowship The Sea, Boulder, CO
2013 Grant Recipient from the State of Colorado and the National Endowment of the Arts through Colorado Creative Industries
Grant Recipient from the Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder, CO
Printing with Bud Shark, from Shark’s Ink, as part of the Salka Archipelago Project, funded by the Kemper Foundation.
2011 Set design for Sin Pecado Concebido, by No Bailarás Dance Company, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 Artist in Residence, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2009 Artist in Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2008 Recipient of the Neodata Visual Artist Fellowship, Boulder, CO
Inside/Outside…, Museo de Las Américas, Denver, CO, in collaboration with museums in
La Paz, Bolivia and Puebla, Mexico
2006 Artist in Residence, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
2005 Tea and Stitchery, an open group installation at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Recipient of a Major Grant from the Boulder Arts Commission, Boulder, CO
Selected Publications From the Last Ten Years
2019 "What's That?: Textured Sign in Capitol Hill is an Art Installation" Interview by Micah Smith, Denver Channel 7
Salka Archipelago, a collection of bilingual poetry with poet Kenneth Robinson
Textiles, Community, and Controversy: The Knitting Map. Edited by Jools Gilson and Nicola Moffat
2018 Imaginary Maps, Expeditions to Uncover Apocryphal, Unsubstantiated and Forbidden Places, Artists Navigate Uncharted Territories. Curated and edited by Jennifer Heath. Baksun Books and Arts
2017 The Light of the Night, Confluencia 32.2 by Ana Maria Hernando
We Have Flowers, catalogue published by the CU Art Museum
5 Colorado Artists To Collect Now, by Karah Kemmerly, 5280 October/November
2016 Denver artists' shows look at flowers, and memory and time by Ray Mark Rinaldi, Westword, October
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Ana Maria Hernando by Susan Froyd, Westword, October
John Buck and Ana Maria Hernando by Susan Froyd, Westword, September
Reviewed: Expanding the Dialogue, Stephen Batura, Ana Maria Hernando, and More by Micheal Paglia, Westword, September
Artist Ana María Hernando in Full Bloom with We Have Flowers by Micheal Paglia, Westword, September
Ana María Hernando exhibits at CU Art Museum in Boulder by Christy Frantz, Boulder Daily Camera, September
2015 Kinetic, Highlights from the Polsinelli Art Collection
Marking 20 Years: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art by Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
2014 Marfa Public Radio interview by K. Yolan, February
2013 Art Desk, In Full Bloom by Mary Ann Prior, Issue No. 1
Oklahoma Public Radio interview, The Illuminated Garden Comes to Oklahoma by Kurt Gwartney, October
2012 Catalogue, Kansas City Art Institute, p. 40
2010 Embroidery Magazine, UK, January/February issue, Random Acts of Kindness by Jessica Hemmings
Kansas City Public Radio Interview
2009 Colorado Abstract, Painting and Sculpture, book by Michael Paglia, curator, and co-author Mary Voelz Chandler
2007 Decades of Influence, Extended Remix, MCA Denver book by Cydney Payton
Uncontained: Writers and Photographers in the Garden and the Margins, a compilation of poems edited by Jennifer Heath
Confluencia, Revista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura vista Hispánica de Cultura y Literatura, edited by
Ester Gimbernat González
Selected Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art
Banco Patricios, Argentina
CU Art Museum
CU Art Museum Shark's Ink Archive
Fidelity Investments
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Harsch Investments
Jordan Schnitzer
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Mark and Polly Addison
Nordstrom
Peter Selz
Polsinelli Art Collection
StorageTek
The Tweed Museum of Art
United States Department of State, Art Bank Gallery
University of San Diego
West Virginia University
2010 - present
2010 - present