The exhibition for which this text has been prepared is a landmark and a turning point for the artist Sergio Hernández. It is the first time in many decades that his large-scale paintings have been seen in the United States.
Born in Huajuapan de Leon, Oaxaca in 1957. In 1973 and 1974 he studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and from 1975 until 1980 at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura La Esmeralda of the Fine Arts Institute of Mexico.