ABOUT
I make art in response to a culture that avoids depth, spirit, and interiority. Often this lack is revealed in the body: a dark and mysterious temple where insights and messages are felt through tension, pressure, and intensity. And it is revealed in human relationships through power, vulnerability, and surprise.
Using abstract ribbon forms that flow and interact, I process bodily, psychic, and spiritual experiences into color and rhythm. I add variations or interruptions to create areas of tension, depth, and weight. At times these forms are fleshy and anatomical, in others they create pools of darkness. Sometimes outside objects constrain or pierce. These forms are both abstract and geometric: being capable of enacting the spiritual and the psychological, and allowing me to explore rhythm and interlocking movement.
My works are made through layers of acrylic paint, crosshatched colored pencil, and wax pastel on wood panels.
BIO
I live and work in Midcoast Maine. My artistic voice is shaped by poetry, dance, my Catholic upbringing, Celtic and Islamic geometric art, and female abstract, symbolist, and spiritualist artists.
CV
Solo and Duo Exhibitions:
2025 FOLLOW THE DARKNESS DOWN, online solo exhibition, Purslane Art, London UK.
2025 HOME BODY, duo exhibition with Carla Weeks, Primary Gallery, Miami, FL
2023 UNDER THE STRAIN, solo exhibition, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK
2022 SENSE STREAM Purslane Art, online solo exhibition, Purslane Art, London UK.
2022 DRAWING WITHIN, solo exhibition, Interloc Projects, Rockland, ME
Group Exhibitions and Fairs:
2024 ARTFEEDS, group exhibition and benefit auction, Page Gallery and AIO Food Pantry, Camden, ME
2024 SWAB Art Fair Barcelona: Anne Carney Raines, Alanna Hernandez and Hanne Peeraer, Soho Revue, London UK
2024 ART YOU LOVE AUCTION, group exhibition and auction to support the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2023 WINTER EXHIBITION, group exhibition, Parsonage Gallery, Searsport ME.
2023 LITTLES, group exhibition, Elizabeth Moss Gallery, Falmouth, ME
2023 ABSTRACT 2.0, group exhibition, Room 57 Gallery, NYC, NY
2023 ARTFEEDS, group exhibition and benefit auction, Page Gallery and AIO Food Pantry, Camden, ME
2023 SPRING, group exhibition, Primary Projects, Miami, FL
2023 LATENT DREAMING, group exhibition, See Food Room, Hong Kong
2023 CENTER FOR MAINE CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL, juried group exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
2022 INSIDE DRAFTSWOMEN, group exhibition curated by Christine Brey, Feinkunst Kruger, Hamburg, Germany.
2022 ARTPM, group exhibition, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, ME.
Residencies and Awards:
2025 Innovate Artists Grant Winner, https://innovateartistgrants.org/alanna-hernandez
2025 Monson Arts Resident, https://monsonarts.org
Press:
2025, Innovate Artists Grant, "Alanna Hernandez's Home Body", https://innovateartistgrants.org/interview-alanna-hernandez-home-body
2023, Winsor & Newton, "Through the Eyes of Alanna Hernandez, London, UK
https://www.winsornewton.com/blogs/artists/alanna-hernandez
2023 March 22, The New York Times, "Hong Kong's New Kids on the Block", NY, USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/arts/design/hong-kong-galleries-new.html?searchResultPosition=5
2023 February 12, The Portland Press Herald, "Identity, Environment, and Resourcefulness all Served up at The Excellent CMCA Biennial", Portland, ME, USA https://www.pressherald.com/2023/02/12/identity-environment-and-resourcefulness-all-served-up-at-the-excellent-cmca-biennial/
2022 June, L'Officiel Mexico, "Trauma and human relationships under the artistic magnifying glass of Alanna Hernandez", https://www.lofficielmexico.com/arte-y-cultura/alanna-hernandez-arte-contemporaneo
2022 May, ArtMaze Magazine, Issue #27, London, UK
2022 January Booooooom Artist Spotlight, https://www.booooooom.com/2022/02/01/artist-spotlight-alanna-hernandez/
2021 August, ArtMaze Magazine, Issue #23, Curated by Julie Tuyet Curtiss, London, UK
Collections:
Education:
2010 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Bachelor of Arts in Middle East Studies.