The Bronx Museum 2025 AIM Fellow
Erick Alejandro Hernandez
ARTIST STATEMENT
Taking root in highly temporal narrative settings like the death of a loved one, the length of a subway commute, the confines of a waiting room, or the impact of a car crash, Erick Alejandro Hernandez’s (he/him) practice explores how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories.
Guided by questions around individual and collective loss and mourning, Hernandez works rhythmically with varying modes of paint application, collage, and approaches to scale that range from small to monumental. Often, his works are formed slowly and gradually by gluing fragments of painted canvas together, allowing a state of constant renewal where edges are never fixed.
He works iteratively and associatively to develop form and content, taking cues from psychoanalysis, history, literature, and his own experiences. The resulting works are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, assimilation, and exile.
Biography
Erick Alejandro Hernández (b. 1994) is an artist from Matanzas, Cuba, based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Hernández has been a fellow at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Oxbow, Yaddo, Macdowell, Mass MoCA, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Lighthouse Works, and Triangle, among others. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant and the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting. Hernandez has had recent solo exhibitions with DIMIN (New York), Murmurs (Los Angeles), and Yossi Milo (New York), in addition to recent group shows at Perrotin (New York), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles), Island (New York), PTT (Taipei), and Spurs (Beijing). Hernandez is a resident at the Monira Foundation and received a 2025 AIM Fellowship at The Bronx Museum.
