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featured artists
Jonathan Hernández
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biography
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(b. Mexico City, Mexico, 1972). Hernández studied architecture at the University of Montreal, Canada and graduated in Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His work is fundamentally critical and includes performances, installations and interventions, creating polemical situations within the realm of art institutions, politics, and art-making. Through parody and make-believe, with an acute sense of irony, Hernández uncovers institutional practices and their absurd mechanisms in which he is actor, critic, and accomplice all at once. For his exhibition, "A Perfect Vacuum" (1999), he constructed an exhibition of well known multi-cultural artists invented by him. He attributed the curating of this show to Joey Skaggs, the performance-prankster of the 1960s and 70s, known for his guerrilla theater tactics. Hernández has invented and parodied other characters such as a deaf and dumb real estate salesman. His first "plaster sculpture" was created from the fictitious fracture of his arm. His work has been exhibited at alternative spaces in Mexico City, including, Ex-Teresa (1998) and La Panaderia (1995, 1994), as well at the Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico (1997). In 1998 he was awarded a grant for young artists by FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la cultura y las artes) in Mexico City. Courtesy: Insite 2000
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