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Gregory Michael Hernandez

Education

1976
Born in West Covina, CA
Lives in Pasadena, CA
1999
BS Drawing and Painting, Biola University, La Mirada, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2022
Akedah Altar, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Intersections, Irenic Projects, Pasadena, CA
2013
Angelus, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
2011
Flatland: A Collision of Architectures, Emma Gray Headquarters, Culver City, CA
The Opto-Isolator, Light and Wire Gallery, www.lightandwiregallery.com.
The Captive Universe Project, LAX Airport Terminal Three, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Rebuilt Homestead, LAXART, Culver City, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020
The Fire, Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (online)
2017
Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson, CA
Being There: Landscape, Memory, and Monument, Biola University, La Mirada, CA
Joshua Treenial, Boxo Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
2015
Primo Lane, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
Violence and the Sacred, Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, CA
Unintended Connections, Disjecta, Portland, OR
Reliquary, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
At First You Don’t Succeed, College of Creative Studies Gallery, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2013
Meridian, Tryon St Gallery, London, UK
2012
Even Small Change Can Be Profound, MACLA, San Jose, CA
After Image: The Photographic Process(ed), Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA
In the Making, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
2011
Telephone, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
L.A. Makes Art 2011, Calfund Fellows Exhibition, CAA, Century City, CA
2009
Here and Now, ARTRA, Los Angeles, CA
Photocartographies: Tattered Fragments of the Map, g727 Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
Patterns and Rhythms, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Whisper Down the Lane, Swallow, Los Angeles, CA
Black Mirror, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Image: Photography in Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
A Warning Shouldn’t Be Pleasant, West L.A. College, Culver City, CA
2006
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Taylor de Cordoba, Culver City, CA
Systematics, CSU Werby Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Enigma, Healing, Revelation, Union Art Space, Santa Ana, CA

Publications

2021
Caputo, John, ”It Spooks: Living in Response to an Unheard Call", Shelter50 Publications (Link)
2020
Cheh, Carol, “In This Church, God and Though-Provoking Art Share Space”, KCET Southland Sessions, December (Link)
2017
Michno, Christopher. "Know Before You Go: New Project Offers Guidelines for Making Art in the Desert", KCET Artbound, April (Link)
Japenga, Ann. "New Initiative Aims to Educate the Desert’s Visiting Artists", The Desert Sun, March (Link)
2013
Finnerty-Pyne, Sinead. “A Bridge Between Landscapes”. Art Throughout Pasadena, published by the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2012
LeMoncheck, Terry, "New Perspectives Captured at Armory’s Artist Studio", Pasadena Art’s Council’s "Folio", Fall
2011
Freeman, Betsi L. “The Illusionist," Biola Magazine Fall 2011 (Link)
Cheh, Carol, “Gregory Michael Hernandez: Math Nerd Meets the Art Gallery at Emma Gray HQ”, L.A. Weekly Blog, July 27
Firstenberg, Lauri. “LAXART Five Year Anniversary Book”, 2011. Freeman, Betsi L. “The Illusionist”. Biola Magazine Fall
2010
Sharif, Mohamed. “Rebuilt Homestead," X-TRA Quarterly Winter Edition 2010: 40-45 (Link)
2007
MacDevitt, James. “After Image: The Photographic Process(ed)” Cerritos College Art Gallery Catalogue November (Link)
Ollman, Leah. "Beyond Image". Los Angeles Times, April 14

Public Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2015
VAN Network Annual Meeting, Portland, OR
2013
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Emerging Artist Grant Recipient
2012
Artist in Residence, One Colorado and the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
VAN Residency, MACLA (Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana) San Jose, CA
2011
Emerging Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, LAX Airport Exhibition