Liz Hernández


Elizabeth Hernández is a Mexican-born American visual artist and designer. She works many mediums including in painting, murals, ceramics, and embossed aluminum sculpture. She lives in Oakland, California.

Biography

Liz Hernández was born in 1993, in Mexico City, Mexico. She was raised in the suburbs of Mexico City, and at age 19 she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend college.
Hernández received a BFA degree in industrial design in 2015 from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Her husband and sometimes artistic collaborator is artist Ryan Whelan. In 2023, she and Whelan exhibited at "A Weed By Any Other Name" at the newly opened Institute of [Contemporary Art San Francisco] in the Dogpatch. In 2024, she was the Harker Artist-in-Residence for a year at San Francisco State University.
Her work is part of the museum collections at the San Francisco [Museum of Modern Art], and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Exhibitions