Andres L. Hernandez critically examines Black cultural and spatial production to recover and propose models for liberatory ways of being. Inspired by everyday, experimental, and radical Black action(s), he produces research-driven creative works that elicit otherwise possibilities for this world and beyond.

Hernandez’ projects include collaborative commissions for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, and Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis. With the performance collective Dark Adaptive, he co-developed site-specific performances presented at The Drawing Center, Graham Foundation, MoMA, Sharjah Biennial 14, and Performa Biennial 2019.

Hernandez has held artist residencies with the MCA Chicago; University of Arizona School of Art; Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events; and the University of Chicago’s Arts + Public Life initiative. He has participated on design teams for the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial, and the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. His awards include the 3Arts Chandler Family Award in Visual Arts, and Efroymson Family Fund Contemporary Arts Fellowship.

Hernandez received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University, and a Master of Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is currently an Associate Professor.