Manuel Hernández Viveros

Manuel Hernández Gómez (19282014) was a Colombian painter and educator. He is considered one of the key figures in abstract painting in the country, and exhibited his work internationally. Hernández Gómez was a professor at the School of Fine Arts in Bogotá, and served as director of the School of Fine Arts in Ibagué.

Biography Hernández Gómez was born on October 20, 1928, in Bogotá, Colombia. He studied fine art at the National University of Colombia; and at the Academy of Painting in Santiago de Chile. He continued his studies at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and the Art Students League of New York.

Hernández Gómez was married Pilar Quiñónez de Hernández. and the print collection of the New York Public Library. In 2020, his work was part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.