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NELSON HERNANDEZ
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Co-represented by Cream Athens
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Nelson Hernandez is a Chilean painter born in Patagonia and based in London. His practice explores the effects of globalisation on memory, identity and cultural specificity, informed by the contrast between his upbringing in one of the world’s most remote regions and his current position within an international art capital.
Working with oil and acrylic on canvas and wooden panel, Hernandez combines painting with photogrammetry and 3D modelling. He digitally captures cultural fragments — from historical artefacts and museum objects to toys and elements of contemporary visual culture — before reassembling them into fragmented compositions. Through painting, these disparate references are brought into new relationships, examining how cultural identities are preserved, transformed or dissolved within an increasingly globalised visual language.
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Nelson Hernández works in traditional media (oil and acrylic), moving freely across pictorial styles according to what each painting demands. His canvases are assembled into fractured scenes and resolved through painting: the eye finds nowhere to settle, yet every fragment answers to a precise decision. Having grown up in one of the most isolated territories in the world and painting today from the centre of the global art circuit defines the question that sustains his practice: how globalised culture erodes the specific and the local.
He holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA in Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery (Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, 2025) and the Saatchi Gallery, London; his solo exhibition Fever Dreams was presented at Isabel Croxatto Gallery, Santiago (2026). His work is held in the Ca.Sa. Collection (Santiago) and the WARI Collection (New Delhi).
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