Nadia Hernández

Nadia Hernández works across visual art, sound and collaborative practices examining the relationship between intimate experience, collective memory and cultural constructions of nationhood. She considers how political histories are embodied in everyday life and how cultural identities are continually produced through migration and geographic dispersal.

Relationality functions as both subject and methodology within Hernández’s practice. Her works emerge through sustained processes of listening, conversation, oral history and collaboration with family members, friends, artists, musicians and researchers in Venezuela and across its diaspora. These encounters are brought into dialogue with familial and cultural archives to produce polyphonic works in which historical knowledge remains contingent, subjective and multiple.

Her sustained and critically engaged practice is reflected in significant exhibitions and achievements, including Para verte mejor, en todo tiempo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2026); TarraWarra Biennial 2025: We Are Eagles at TarraWarra Museum of Art; and Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong (2025); Palomita/Soledad at Heide Museum of Modern Art (2023); Speech Patterns: Nadia Hernández and Jon Campbell at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (2022); and Like a Wheel That Turns: The 2022 Macfarlane Commissions at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2022). She was selected for the Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida (2024), and was a finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize (2023) and the Sir John Sulman Prize (2023, 2024). She is currently an artist in residence at Gertrude Contemporary.