Juan Hernández Díaz is a Colombian visual artist based in New York City. He examines objecthood, material agency, systems of value, states of (in)stability, and structural failure through objects, installations, and drawings. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from Universidad de los Andes and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Hernández Díaz has been awarded grants and fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts, Columbia University, and LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. His work has been exhibited in Colombia and the United States in spaces including Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, The Jewish Museum, Frost Art Museum, Wallach Art Gallery, and Rosenberg Gallery at Hofstra University, where his recent solo show ‘Priceless or (Gravity in Paradise)’ was presented. For 2022-2023 he is a Keyholder Resident at LES Printshop.

b. Bogota, Colombia, 1992

lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

2021 MFA Visual Arts. Columbia University School of the Arts. New York, NY

2015 Bachelor of Architecture. Summa Cum Laude. Universidad de los Andes. Bogota, Colombia

2013 Exchange program on Architecture. Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES

2023 Awardee of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture. New York Foundation for the Arts

2023 – 22 Resident at the Keyholder Residency Program. Lower East Side Printshop

2021 Nominee for the MFA Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture. Dedalus Foundation

2020 Awardee of the Helen Hartley Mead Platt Prize. Columbia University

2019 Resident at Estudio 74 Artist-in-residence program. Casa Estudio 74 – Lago de Tota

2018 Finalist for the Premio Arte Joven. Fundación Colsanitas – Embajada de España

2015 Awardee of the Reconocimiento Académico. Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos

2014 Awardee of the Distinción de Excelencia. Universidad de los Andes

EXHIBITIONS

2023 Draw: Point to Point. Frost Art Museum, Florida International University. Miami, FL

2023 Priceless or Gravity in Paradise (solo show). Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University. Hempstead, NY

2023 Test Flights. Lower East Side Printshop. New York, NY

2022 Flow-Out. CLEA RSKY. Coxsackie, NY

2022 Acción / Reacción. DAMA Galería. Bogota, Colombia

2022 Back-to-School. Yonkers Artist Residency Project (YARP). Yonkers, NY

2021 Rolling, Rolling, Rolling. LeRoy Neiman Gallery. New York, NY

2021 Visual Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition 2021. The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts. New York, NY

2021 Proyecto Parámo. Museo del Agua EPM. Medellin, Colombia

2021 The (better late than never) Summer Show. 81 Essex St. New York, NY

2021 In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World. The Jewish Museum. New York, NY

2021 PPE. LeRoy Neiman Gallery. New York, NY

2021 Class of 2021 First-Year Exhibition. The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University. New York, NY

2021 Pequeño Formato. Museo El Castillo. Medellin, Colombia

2021 Lines Inside – TSA PDF No. 019. Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Brooklyn, NY

2019 Gris Que Te Quiero Verde (two-artist show). Fundación Casa Estudio 74. Bogota, Colombia

2019 Tierra Firme. Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez. Bogota, Colombia

2019 Vacuum. PLECTO. Envigado, Colombia

2019 Da Vinci 500. Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellin, Colombia

2019 Contenedores de Espacios Intimos (solo show). Permanente. Bogota, Colombia

2019 In House. Galería Elvira Moreno. Bogota, Colombia

2019 Frontera: Puntos de Referencia. El mapa no es el territorio + Fundación Casa Estudio 74. Bogota, Colombia

2018 Premio Arte Joven. Galería Nueveochenta. Bogota, Colombia

2015 Escalando. Universidad de los Andes. Bogota, Colombia

2011 Arquitectura Bajo la Lente. Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother. Bogota, Colombia

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