artistyasminhernandez
artistyasminhernandez
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Brooklyn-born and raised, Borikén-based, Yasmín Hernández is an artist, writer, and activist focusing on rematriation and liberation. Long navigating notions of motherland/ otherland, she draws aesthetic inspiration from the abyss that spreads between her birthplace and homeland. Researching in Vieques for her 2009 art exhibit honoring activists who ended US Navy maneuvers introduced her to bioluminescence, transformed her vision and aesthetics, and inspired her 2014 move to her ancestral womb.
Channeling cucubanos and fireflies, months after Hurricane María she launched CucubaNación, a painting series lifting light through the darkness of power outages, climate change and colonialism. In 2022, she expanded the project into a storefront community art space dedicated to the liberatory lessons of Boricua bioluminescence. Located in the urban center of Mayagüez, the space is also host to Rematriating Borikén, her interdisciplinary project chronicling the conceptual and physical journey home, and the rematriation practices emerging from the archipelago of Puerto Rico. The project includes a portrait series featuring folks on the rematriation journey in the aesthetics of Puerto Rico Trench bioluminescence. She recently received a National Association for Latino Arts & Cultures Fund for the Arts Grant for the project.
Yasmin holds a BFA in Painting from Cornell University. She has served as artist educator with Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, El Museo del Barrio, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Committed to art as a healing, liberatory practice, Yasmin has exhibited and offered talks and workshops in art/ community spaces and on campuses across the US and Puerto Rico. She continues this work from her Mayaguez art space, also sharing her art at YasminHernandezArt.com and her journey at RematriatingBoriken.com.
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