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:
2024 Gallery Elle, Zürich, Switzerland
2023 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
Making a Mountain, Boedecker Foundation Path To Excellence Grant, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO.
Flowering Eulogy, public art commissioned by Boulder Office of Arts and Culture to commemorate the 2021
King Sooper Shooting.
2022 Geometrias Tiernas, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
The Memory of Flowers & Residency, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, Idaho.
2021 Fervor, Denver Botanic Gardens, CO
Making a Mountain, Boedecker Foundation Path To Excellence Grant, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
Present Box, BMoCA, Boulder, CO
2020 Chateau de LaNapoule, LaNapoule Art Foundation, France
BMoCA at FM, Boulder, CO
2019 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Seidel City, Boulder, CO
Building Bridges, Los Angeles, CA
Glenarm Place, Temporary Public Art Installation, Denver, CO
2016 University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO, curated by Sandra Firmin
Experiments in Public Art, temporary public art for the City of Boulder, CO
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX, curated by Mary Ann Prior
Colorado Impact Fund, Denver, CO
2013 Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK, curated by Mary Ann Prior
Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO
2012 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 When the Women Sing, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, curated by Barbara O’Brien
2009 Project Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, curated by Cydney Payton
2008 International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, West Bank/Palestine
2006 Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, curated by Ken Bloom
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
2026 Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV.
2024 New Worlds—Women to Watch 2024, Washington, DC, curated by Orin Zahra and Ginny Treanor.
2023 Colorado Women to Watch, curated by Cecily Cullen for Colorado Committee (CCNMWA) Women to Watch 2024
nominated artists, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO.
Lush: Prolific Nature. University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO.
Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO.
45 + Anniversary Exhibition Series: Part II, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO.
Gravitropic, RedLine, Denver, CO, curated by Christina Linden.
Narrative Threads, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX.
2020 The Golden Door, Silvermine Gallery, New Canaan, CT, curated by Barbara O'Brien and Roger Mudre
Alive!, La Napoule Art Foundation, Château de la Napoule, France.
Pink Progression, Arvada Center, CO
Foreign Born, An investigation of the female perspective on immigration through mostly prints. Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
All In This Together, Distance Gallery
2019 Building Bridges, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
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, curated by Louise Martorano and Mary Caulkins
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
BCAA Members, Boulder, CO
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
Wright State University, Impression: Modern and Contemporary Latino Prints, 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, curated by Jennifer Heath
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, 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
2024 Representing the State of Colorado at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Women to Watch 2024, DC.
2023 Recipient of Joan Mitchell Fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Teaching at Shakerag, Sewanee, TN.
Recipient of Community Project Grant from the Boulder Arts Commission of the City of Boulder.
Madison Square Park Conservancy Symposium, NY, NY.
Nomination to apply to the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
Nomination to apply to the Joan Mitchell Fellowship.
2022 Nomination by Nora Burnett Abrams for 2024 Women to Watch, CCNMWA
Nomination to apply to the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.
Nomination to apply to the Joan Mitchell Fellowship.
2021 S*Park Resource Artist at Redline, Denver, a two-year residency.
1st Place in the Americas COVID-19 Memorial Juried Competition with the Biennial of the Americas.
Printing with master printmaker Bud Shark from Shark’s Ink.
Last and 9th year as Trustee on the Board of Directors, MCA Denver, CO.
2020 Recipient of the Prix Henry Clews from LaNapoule Art Foundation
Artists Chats: Ana María Hernando and Bud Shark, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO
Tour of AMH French studio, organized by Bmoca
Member of the MCA Board of Trustees, from 2012 to date
Salka Archipelago, a collection of bilingual poetry with Kenneth Robinso
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
2017 Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant
Colorado Creative Industries Grant
2016 A Knitting Ballet, a performance choreographed and produced for We Have Flowers, CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Printing with Bud Shark, from Shark's in, the sixth print since 2005
Grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation
2015 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
Member of Museo de las Americas Board of Directors till 2010
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
2023 13 Textile Artists Pushing the Medium Forward by Lark Breen, Sixtysix Magazine.
Following Boulder King Soopers tragedy, local artist turns memorial flowers into compost by Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post
Colorado Artists Shine in Massive Exhibition by Sommer Browning, Hyperallergic.
MCA Celebrates RedLine’s 15th Anniversary With Blockbuster Exhibition by Emily Ferguson, Westword.
New ‘Narrative Threads’ exhibition at the Moody excites with dazzling textiles by Schaefer Edwards, Rice News.
Rice’s Moody Center has a new free exhibit showcasing touch and feel fiber art by Amber Elliott, Houston Chronicle.
2022 The best art exhibitions of 2022 (including three you can still see) by Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post.
10 essential Colorado artists that deserve a spot in Denver Art Museum by Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post.
2021 DARIA: Denver Art Review, Inquiry, and Analysis, review by Jillian Blackwell.
Ana Maria Hernando celebrates female power in nature at new Denver Botanic Gardens exhibit by Ray Mark Rinaldi,
The Denver Post.
Museo de las America Hosts “Americas COVID-19 Memorial” by Hilal Bahcetepe, 303 Magazine.
Envuelta en Telas de la Naturaleza / Wrapped in the Fabric of Nature by Petra Harmat, Arte al Límite (pp. 46-53), Chile.
Taking Flight by Colleen Smith, Colorado Expressions.
Beautiful Billowing Tulle Floods Unexpected Spaces with Feminine Power by Arnesia Young, My Modern Met.
12 female fibre artists transforming space through textiles by Marcia Veiga, The Spaces.
Ana María Hernando brings a French castle to life with ethereal tulle-based creations by Nina Azzarello, designboom.
Swaths of Tulle Billow from Site-Specific Installations by Ana María Hernando by Grace Ebert, Colossal.
2020 Artists Chats: Ana María Hernando and Bud Shark, Dairy Art Center, Boulder, CO. On Vimeo
The Golden Door, catalogue published by Silvermine Art Center.
Pink Progression is keeping the spirit of the Women’s March alive by Ray Mark Rinaldi for the Denver Post.
Elle Magazine, French Edition.
Point Du Vue, France.
Nice Matin, France.
French Public TV, a documentary by Elodie Trouvé.
2019 "What's That?: Textured Sign in Capitol Hill is an Art Installation" Interview by Micah Smith, Denver Channel 7
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.
Selected Collections
CU Art Museum, Boulder, CO
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Jordan Schnitzer Collection, Portland, OR
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
United States Department of State, Art Bank Gallery, Washington, DC
Mark and Polly Addison, Boulder, CO
Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Harsch Investments, Portland, OR
Nordstrom Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Peter Selz, Berkeley, CA
StorageTek, Broomfield, CO
The Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
University of San Diego
Polsinelli Art Collection
Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO.
2010 - present
2010 - present