Mafer Hernández (b. 1995 Guatemala City) creates visual experiences about color, light, space and movement by using photography, installations, books, natural fibers, and sculptural elements. She holds a BFA in photography and printmaking by the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been presented at Root Division, Eric Quezada Center and Back To The Picture Gallery in San Francisco and it is included in the de Young Museum Collection and the Latin American Collection of the Stanford University Libraries. She is currently creating Gracia a residency space in Antigua Guatemala and is the co-founder of White Light Collective.
EDUCATION
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Contenedor de Soles, Galería Panza Verde, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Women of the Resistance, Alley Cat Books, San Francisco, CA
2019 The Open Book Show #6, Arion Press, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Open Book Show #5, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2018 100 under 100, Fleet Wood, San Francisco, CA
2018 BFA Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2018 The Open Book Show, 1890 Bryant Studios, San Francisco, CA
2018 You Were Here, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2018
2017 Tiera Olvidada, Paul Sack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Día de los Muertos, Back To The Picture, San Francisco, CA
2017 Ofrendas de Amor, Puerto Alegre, San Francisco, CA
2017 Ñ, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 How to Cope when a Loved One goes to Jail, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 Burning Down the House, Eric Quezada Center, San Francisco, CA
2014 [BeLong], Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
KNOWN COLLECTIONS
de Young Museum
Latin American Collection Stanford University Libraries
Center for the Study of Political Graphics