Anthony Hernandez
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Biography
Born 1947 in Los Angles, California, USA.
Lives and works in Challis, Idaho, USA.
Education and Teaching
1966 – 1967
Studies at the East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California
Grants and Awards
2017 – 2018
Guggenheim Fellowship
2016
Lucie Awards for Achievement in Portraiture, New York
2009
United States Artists Fellowship
1999
COLA Individual Award, City of Los Angeles, California
1998 – 1999
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy, Rome, Italy
1998
Higashikawa Prize, Japan
1995
DG Bank Förderpreis Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
1993
Charles Pratt Memorial Award, USA
1989
Artist in Residence, Ucross Foundation, Ucross,
1986
Artist in Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada
1983
Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, New York
1980
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979
Artist in Residence, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
1978
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975
Artist in Residence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1972
Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Anthony Hernandez, Fundación MAPFRE, Bárbara de Braganza Exhibition Hall, Spain
2018
Anthony Hernandez, Pritzker Center for Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2017
Anthony Hernandez. Retrospective, Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2016
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
2009
Anthony Hernandez, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007
Anthony Hernandez. The Seventies and Eighties, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri
2005
Anthony Hernandez. Everything, Anthony Grant, New York
Anthony Hernandez. Everything, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
2003
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for L.A., Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
2002
Anthony Hernandez. Temporary Spaces, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for L.A., Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
2001
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures of Oakland, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach and California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
2000
Anthony Hernandez. Pictures for Rome, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York and Beverly Hills, California
1999
Anthony Hernandez. City Point – Rome, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France
1998
Anthony Hernandez. The 70’s, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1997
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
1995
Anthony Hernandez. In Another World, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, The Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
1993
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991
Anthony Hernandez. Shooting Sites, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990
Anthony Hernandez. Landscape for the Homeless, Opsis Foundation, New York
1985
Anthony Hernandez, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Arizona
Anthony Hernandez. Rodeo Drive, Burden Gallery, New York
1984
Anthony Hernandez, Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, California
1982
Anthony Hernandez. Public Use Areas, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
1979
Anthony Hernandez, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1978
Anthony Hernandez. Art in Public Places, The Federal Building, Los Angeles, California
Anthony Hernandez, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California
1979
Anthony Hernandez, Max Protech Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1976
Anthony Hernandez. The Nation’s Capital in Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 – 2024
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
2023
Hidden Gems: Sun Valley Collects, Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, USA
2022
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
2021
True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the United States, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2020
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2019
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
2018
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
2017
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2014
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
2013
Color! American Photography Transformed, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, USA
Under the Big Black Sun, MOCA, Los Angeles, California
2011
In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
2010
Anonymous, Le Bal, Paris France, France
Haunted - Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
2008
This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in Los Angeles Photographs, The Huntington Library, Musée de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007
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
2006
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
2004
Borne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2003
Conceptual Color: In Albers’ Afterimage, The Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
2002
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
2001
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
2000
Identification of a Landscape, Venezia-Marghera, Venice, Italy
Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
1999
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
1998
Radical Past, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
1997
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
1996
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
1995
Street Engagements: Social Landscape Photography of the Sixties, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New Hampshire
1994
Love in the Ruins: Art and Inspiration of LA, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1993
Fotografie Biennale III, Wasteland: Landscape Form Now On, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992
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
1991
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
1989
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
1988
Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1987
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
1984
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
1982
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
1980
Long Beach: A Photographic Survey, The Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
Photography and the City, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1979
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
1977
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,
1976
LA Six, Mount St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1975
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1974
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
1973
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
1972
West of the Rockies: George Eastman House Symposium, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
1971
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
1970
California Photographers, University of California, Davis, Oakland Museum, Oakland and Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California
1969
Fiesta de los Barrios, Los Angeles, California
Selected Bibliography
2019
May You Live In Interesting Times, catalogue of the Venice Biennale Arte 2019, Venice, Italy
2018
Helfan, Glen: Anthony Hernandez, Aperture Magazine, #232 / Fall 2018, pp. 38-43.
2017
Forever, Mack, London, UK
2016
Anthony Hernandez, Introduction by Robert Adams, D.A.P. / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2008
MA/BCAM/2008, Catalog documenting the construction of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (with Uta Barth, Miles Coolidge and Sharon Lockhart)
2007
Anthony Hernandez. Waiting, Sitting, Fishing, and some Automobiles, Loosestrife Editions, Bethesda, Maryland
2005
Everything, Nazraeli Press, Tucson, Arizona
2004
Bourne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2002
Waiting for Los Angeles, Nazraeli Press, Portland, Oregon
2001
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
2000
Pictures for Rome, Essay by Ralph Rugoff, Smart Art Press, Los Angeles, California
1999
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
1997
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
1996
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
1995
Anthony Hernandez. Landscapes for the Homeless, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Lewis Baltz / Anthony Hernandez: Forever Homeless. A Dialogue
1994
Gamblin, Noriko: Love in the Ruins. Art and the Inspiration of LA, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1993
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
1991
Starrels, Josine Ianco: Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Japan
1989
Picturing California, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
1984
The Art of California. Selected Works from the Collection, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
1983
A Century of California Landscapes, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Art Collection, Los Angeles, California
1982
Heyman, Teresa Thau: Slices of Time. California Landscapes 1860-1880, 1960-1980, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
1980
Glenn, Constance / Bledsoe, Jane K: Long Beach. A Photographic Survey, California State University
1979
Parker, Fred: Attitudes. Photography in the 1970’s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1977
Baltz, Lewis: Contemporary American Photographic Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Unposed Portraits, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
1976
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
1974
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
1973
24 From LA, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
1971
The Crowded Vacancy, University of California
1970
California Photographers, University of California
Public Collections
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