Liz Hernández

Elizabeth Hernández (born 1993) 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. 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 2015 – "Tortillería Horizontal", site specific group project, Mexico City, Mexico 2020 – "Talisman: Liz Hernández", Pt. 2 Gallery, Oakland, California 2022 – "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves", Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California 2022 – "Bay Area Walls", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California 2023 – "A Weed By Any Other Name", Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF), San Francisco, California 2023 – "Shifting the Silence", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California