Ricardo Miguel Hernández

Ricardo Miguel Hernández

Havana, Cuba (1984)
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Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havana, 1984) is a Cuban visual artist whose work explores the elasticity of memory. Through photography, video art, collage, and installation, he dismantles hegemonic narratives and proposes critical fictions in which the individual becomes an act of poetic resistance. He completed studies at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, created and directed by Tania Bruguera, between 2007 and 2009. He has developed a sustained exhibition career, with solo shows in Spain, Italy, and Cuba, as well as numerous group exhibitions at institutions across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, PHotoEspaña, FestFoto Brazil, and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. He has received grants and residencies such as the Estudio 21 Grant from the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Arte no es fácil residency in Chicago. In 2023, he was a finalist in photography for the CINTAS Foundation in Miami. His work has been published in specialized magazines and books—including Granta Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and his photobook When the Memory Turns to Dust—and he has also participated as a curator in exhibition projects. He has delivered lectures… Read more Show less

Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havana, 1984) is a Cuban visual artist whose work explores the elasticity of memory. Through photography, video art, collage, and installation, he dismantles hegemonic narratives and proposes critical fictions in which the individual becomes an act of poetic resistance. He completed studies at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, created and directed by Tania Bruguera, between 2007 and 2009.

He has developed a sustained exhibition career, with solo shows in Spain, Italy, and Cuba, as well as numerous group exhibitions at institutions across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America, including the Tampa Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, PHotoEspaña, FestFoto Brazil, and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague. He has received grants and residencies such as the Estudio 21 Grant from the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana and the Arte no es fácil residency in Chicago. In 2023, he was a finalist in photography for the CINTAS Foundation in Miami.

His work has been published in specialized magazines and books—including Granta Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and his photobook When the Memory Turns to Dust—and he has also participated as a curator in exhibition projects. He has delivered lectures on collage, archive, and memory. Some of his works are held in public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Heckscher Museum of Art in New York, and the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami.

Subjects Human Figure, Representations of Everyday Objects, Cityscapes and City Scenes
Mediums & techniques Digital Print, Collage
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Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havana, Cuba, 1984) is a Cuban visual artist whose practice spans photography, video art, collage, and installation, focusing on the elasticity of memory and the construction of official discourse. His work dismantles hegemonic narratives to propose critical fictions in which individual experience operates as a form of poetic resistance within contemporary art.

Between 2007 and 2009, he completed his artistic training at the Cátedra Arte de Conducta, founded and directed by Tania Bruguera in Havana. He has received grants and artist residencies such as the Estudio 21 Creation Grant from the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (Havana) and the Arte no es fácil residency at the Chicago Center for Independent Dance and Performance Arts (USA). In 2023, he was selected as a Photography Finalist by the CINTAS Foundation in Miami.

His work has been published in specialized books and international art magazines including Granta Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Faire Monde(s), Forgotten Lands. Volume 05, Revista Arte Cubano, Esfera Pública, and Resaca. 5 fotógrafos cubanos. He is the author of the photobook When the Memory Turns to Dust (89 Books Edition) and the artist’s book Ricardo Miguel Hernández. Fragmentos para apuntalar las ruinas (Rialta Ediciones / Fluxus Collection). He has also collaborated as a curator on exhibition projects and has delivered lectures on collage, archival photography, and memory, most recently at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.

His works are part of public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Heckscher Museum of Art (Huntington, New York); the Cuban Heritage Collection at the University of Miami Libraries; the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Retroavangarda Collection (Warsaw); and The Rice Collection of Cuban Art (Florida).

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