Ricardo Miguel Hernández
Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havanna, 1984) is a Cuban visual artist whose work explores the elasticity of memory. Through photography, Videokunst, Collage, und Installation, he dismantles hegemonic narratives and proposes critical fictions in which the individual becomes an act of poetic resistance. He completed studies at theCátedra Arte de Conducta, created and directed by Tania Bruguera, zwischen 2007 Und 2009.
He has developed a sustained exhibition career, with solo shows in Spain, Italien, und Kuba, as well as numerous group exhibitions at institutions across the United States, Kanada, Europa, und Lateinamerika, 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 theArte 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—includingGranta Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and his photobookWhen 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.
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Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havanna, Kuba, 1984) is a Cuban visual artist whose practice spans photography, Videokunst, Collage, und 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.
Zwischen 2007 Und 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 Studie 21 Schöpfungsstipendium from the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (Havanna) und die 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, Und 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, Kolumbien.
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 (Warschau); and The Rice Collection of Cuban Art (Florida).
