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“Some people ask, ‘What’s so important or compelling about taking pictures of such unpleasant subjects like city dwellers?’ … My work may be beautiful or it might not be, that just isn’t what I am concerned with. I try to be open and face the city. … To me it’s not unpleasant or unbeautiful, it’s just life – which has to be threatening sometimes if it is going to be interesting.” – (Anthony Hernandez)
The social landscape in an urban environment is the main focus of Anthony Hernandez’s photography. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, Hernandez begins to photograph everyday life in his native Los Angeles in the 1970s, acknowledging its implied cultural differences of class and race. His series of color photographs Rodeo Drive (1984) shows daydreaming shoppers on Beverly Hills’ famed shopping street. The project Landscape for the Homeless (1988-1991) on the other hand documents the living conditions of homeless people in the city through images of their few private belongings and makeshift shelters. Hernandez’s extensive work ranges from street portraiture to landscape and architectural details verging on the abstract. His interest in urban deconstruction and redevelopment is present throughout his oeuvre.
Anthony Hernandez’s work has been shown in international group and solo exhibitions, e.g. at Sprengel Museum Hanover, Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, Seattle Art Museum, The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the 2019 Venice Biennale.
Born 1947 in Los Angles, California, USA.
Lives and works in Challis, Idaho, USA.
Studies at the East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California
Guggenheim Fellowship
Lucie Awards for Achievement in Portraiture, New York
United States Artists Fellowship
COLA Individual Award, City of Los Angeles, California
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy, Rome, Italy
Higashikawa Prize, Japan
DG Bank Förderpreis Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Charles Pratt Memorial Award, USA
Artist in Residence, Ucross Foundation, Ucross,
Artist in Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, New York
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Artist in Residence, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Artist in Residence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Anthony Hernandez: Screened Pictures X, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anthony Hernandez, Fundación MAPFRE, Bárbara de Braganza Exhibition Hall, Spain
Anthony Hernandez, Pritzker Center for Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Anthony Hernandez. Retrospective, Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Anthony Hernandez, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Anthony Hernandez. Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pritzker Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Anthony Hernandez. Discarded, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Anthony Hernandez, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Anthony Hernandez. The Seventies and Eighties, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri
Anthony Hernandez. Everything, Anthony Grant, New York
Anthony Hernandez. Everything, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for L.A., Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez. Temporary Spaces, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for L.A., Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures of Oakland, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach and California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for Rome, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York and Beverly Hills, California
Anthony Hernandez. City Point – Rome, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Anthony Hernandez. The 70’s, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez. Shooting Sites, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
Anthony Hernandez. The City, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France and Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
Anthony Hernandez. In Another World, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, The Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez. Shooting Sites, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez. Landscape for the Homeless, Opsis Foundation, New York
Anthony Hernandez, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Arizona
Anthony Hernandez. Rodeo Drive, Burden Gallery, New York
Anthony Hernandez, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California
Anthony Hernandez. Public Use Areas, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Anthony Hernandez, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Anthony Hernandez. Art in Public Places, The Federal Building, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
Anthony Hernandez, Max Protech Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Anthony Hernandez. The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The ’70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
We Are Here Scenes from the Streets, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
When Images Learned to Speak: Conceptualized Documentary Photography from Astrid Ullens, De Schooten Whettnall’s Collection, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, USA
Nicola Erni: A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, PhotoEspaña 2022, Círculo de Bellas Artes & Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the United States, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the United States, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
May You Live In Interesting Times, 2019 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
In the Sunshine of Neglect, California Museum of Photography UCR Arts, Riverside, California
Streetwise, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Brought to Light: Revelatory Photographs in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Collection, Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Landscape and Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, California
See the Light – Photography, Perception, Cognition – The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Color! American Photography Transformed, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, USA
Under the Big Black Sun, MOCA, Los Angeles, California
In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Anonymous, Le Bal, Paris France, France
Haunted – Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs, The Huntington Library, Musée de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
re-SITE-ing the West: Contemporary Photographs in the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Imaging and Imagining California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, California
Whose Nature? What’s Nature, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho
Advancing the Moment: Recent Works by Photographers in the Norton Simon Collection, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California
The Collectible Moment: Photography at the Norton Simon Museum, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Germany
L.A. River Reborn, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Borne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
California Invitational, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 – 2000, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Flight Patterns, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Documents and Beyond, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Identification of a Landscape, Venezia-Marghera, Venice, Italy
Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Hasselblad Center, Goteberg, Sweden
Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, California
COLA Awards Show, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Franco Riccardo Artivisive, Naples, Italy
Radical Past, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
TRASH: When Waste Materials Become Art, Museo d’Arte Moderna de Contemporania di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Long Beach: A Photographic Survey, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Herkunft?, Fotomusuem Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Street Engagements: Social Landscape Photography of the Sixties, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New Hampshire
Love in the Ruins: Art and Inspiration of LA, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Fotografie Biennale III, Wasteland: Landscape Form Now On, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana and New York State Museum, Albany, New York
The City Life of Flora and Fauna, The Seagram Gallery, New York
From the West, Gail Severn Gallery, Sun Valley,
Las Vegas, Mark Masuoka Gallery, Las Vegas, Texas
Picturing California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Photographic Abstraction, Tratt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Women and Men: Photographs from the Seagram Collection, Seagram Gallery, New York
Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Masters of the Street: Part Three, Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Photography over the 70’s and 80’s, The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
Recent Acquisitions, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Exposed and Developed: American Photography in the 1970s, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Social Commentary and Photography, Texas Photographic Society, Austin, Texas
Slices of Time: California Landscapes, 1860-1880, 1960-1980, Oakland Museum, Oakland and Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, California
Facets of the Collection: Urban America, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Long Beach: A Photographic Survey, The Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Photography and the City, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970’s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Photographic Directions: LA 1979, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California
100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Unposed Portrait, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Photography 77, California State College, Bakersfield,
LA Six, Mount St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Language of Light: A Survey of Photography of the Collection, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Eight Young Photographers, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Photography 1/ Recent Photographs by 7 Artists, Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, California
24 from LA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 24 from LA, San Francisco, California
Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
West of the Rockies: George Eastman House Symposium, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
The Crowded Vacancy, University of California, Davis; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco and The Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
California Photographers, University of California, Davis, Oakland Museum, Oakland and Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
Fiesta de los Barrios, Los Angeles, California
May You Live In Interesting Times, catalogue of the Venice Biennale Arte 2019, Venice, Italy
Helfan, Glen: Anthony Hernandez, Aperture Magazine, #232 / Fall 2018, pp. 38-43.
Forever, Mack, London, UK
Anthony Hernandez, Introduction by Robert Adams, D.A.P. / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
MA/BCAM/2008, Catalog documenting the construction of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (with Uta Barth, Miles Coolidge and Sharon Lockhart)
Anthony Hernandez. Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and some Automobiles, Loosestrife Editions, Bethesda, Maryland
Everything, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona
Bourne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Waiting for Los Angeles, Nazraeli Press, Portland, Oregon
Documents and Beyond, Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Flight Patterns, Essays by Cornelia H. Butler / Lee Weng Choy / Francis Pound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Pictures for Rome, Essay by Ralph Rugoff, Smart Art Press, Los Angeles, California
La Vida Latina en L.A. Urban Latino Cultures, in association with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
California Invitational, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, California
Identification of a Landscape, Venezia-Marghera, Italy
An Eclectic Focus. Photographs from the Vernon Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Sons of Adam: Landscapes for the Homeless II, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France and Musée de l’Elyssée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Blase, Christopher: “The Will to Landscape”
Durand, Régis: “Sons of Adam”
TRASH. When Waste Materials Become Art, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum
Crossing the Frontier. Photographs of the Developing West 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Olenetsky, Nadine: Herkunft?, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Lewis Baltz / Anthony Hernandez: Forever Homeless. A Dialogue
Gamblin, Noriko: Love in the Ruins. Art and the Inspiration of LA, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Gierstberg, Fritz / Vroege, Bas: Wasteland. Landscape Form Now On, Fotografie Biennale
Ansel Adams. New Light, Essays on his Legacy and Legend, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, California
Starrels, Josine Ianco: Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Japan
Picturing California, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
The Art of California. Selected Works from the Collection, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
A Century of California Landscapes, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Art Collection, Los Angeles, California
Heyman, Teresa Thau: Slices of Time. California Landscapes 1860-1880, 1960-1980, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Glenn, Constance / Bledsoe, Jane K: Long Beach. A Photographic Survey, California State University
Parker, Fred: Attitudes. Photography in the 1970’s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Baltz, Lewis: Contemporary American Photographic Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Unposed Portraits, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Livingston, Jane: The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Bogardus, Ralph S. / Barendse, Henri Man: Peculiar to Photography, University of New Mexico
Rice, Leland: LA Six, Mount St Mary’s College
Enyeart, James L.: Language of Light. A Survey of the Photography, Collection of Art, University of Kansas
Photography 1 / Recent Photographs by 7 Artists, Jack Glenn Gallery
24 From LA, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
The Crowded Vacancy, University of California
California Photographers, University of California
Artothéque de Miramas, Miramas, France Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Fonds Départmental d’ Art Contemporain de Bobigny, France
Fonds National d’ Art Contemporain, Paris, France
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Collection, Los Angeles, California
Grunwald Collection, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Harry Ranson Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Higashikawa Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.
Norton Simon Museum,
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, California
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Tate Modern, London, UK
University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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