CV
Lives and works in Berlin
After studying Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts (ENAP) UNAM in Mexico City, Helena Hernández studied at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern) Kunst und Design, the Master in Art in Public Spheres with an semester in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Wien).

Solo exhibitions:

2018
“Crossing the Line”. Drawing and Installation. Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin, Germany
2016
“The Voyageurs”. Watercolour works with Rafael Koller in the frame of Fumetto. Lucerne, Switzerland.
“The Niñxs”. Drawing. Casa Mezcal, New York, USA.
2015
“El Niño y la Niña. Drawing in Italy” Drawing team work with Rafael Koller. Mutty Gallery, Castiglione, Italy.
2013
“Doodle it Yourself. D.I.Y.” Collective Drawing. Exchange, Dublin, Ireland.
“Small Fantasies” Drawing and Photography. Bloody Mary Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2011
“Dibujo”, Drawing. Entijuanarte 2011, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
“Invasión Híbrida” Drawing. Galería Studio Cerrillo, San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico.
2008
“Extremos”, Photography. Anglocentro Antonio Caso, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
“Welcome Death?” Images of death in Mexico, Photography and Drawing. University of Bristol, Bristol, England.

Selected group exhibitions

2018
“Offene Ateliers”. Drawing. Art Spaces Neukölln, WerkStadt Satellit, Berlin, Germany.
“Pas de Deux”. Drawing with The Niñxs. Das kleine Format, Zürich, Switzerland.
2017
“Silent Auction”. Drawing. The Drawing Hub, Berlin, Germany.
“Entre Líneas. Dibujo Contemporáneo” Drawing. Futurama, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Projeto Copyleft”. Drawing. Gallery of the Art Department of the Federal University of Paraná, Brasil.
“Lee mis LaVios”. Watercolour. Gallery Corpus Christi, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Bodega”. Book. Salón Acme, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
“Superblock”. Drawing. Superblock, Winterthur, Switzerland
“Prachtwerk”. Drawing and painting. Zurich, Switzerland.
“Osten Biennial of Drawing”. Drawing. Skopje, Macedonia.
“Menagerie: Tiere im Zoo der Kunst/Animals in the Art Zoo”. Drawing. Toolbox Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
“They print it!”. Drawing. Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
“I Buy Porn. Go Vegan”. Found photography and painting, Salón ACME, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Nous Somme Marines”. Live drawing. Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
“Bienal de Arte Visuales del Noroeste”. Drawing. Sonora, Mexico.
2015
“Call for Drawings”. Drawing. Drawing Simposium at BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands.
“Der Wald”, installation and performance, Projektraum Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany.
“Alas y Raíces”. Drawing and artist book, Mexican Embassy, Berlin, Germany.
“Sketchbook Project”. Sketchbook, Brooklyn Art Library, New York, U.S.
“Incisioni al femminile” Engraving, Naples, Italy.
2014
“7ª Bienal Internacional de Gravura do Douro”. Engraving. Alijó, Portugal.
“Können Sie mir helfen?”. Collective drawing in public spaces in the frame of the final master degree exhibition “Zwischenhalt Luzern”, Luzern, Switzerland.
“WEG- das trinationale festival des spazierens”. Collective drawing in public spaces. Basel (Allschwil), Switzerland and Hégenheim, France.
“Numero Uno”. Engraving. Atelier Controsegno printmaking exhibition, Naples, Italy.
“Rundgang”. Drawing. Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria.
2013
“The Future of the Book” with the project: Could you help me?. Collective digital drawing. San Francisco, USA.
“Global Print 2013”. Engraving. Museum of Lamego, Lamego, Portugal.
“ECHO: The Poetics of Translation”. Drawing. Installation and Photography. Lasalle College of the Arts,
Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
“KUNSTPause”. Drawing. Altstadthalle, Zug, Switzerland.
“Open Monument”. Digital drawing. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
“Dialoge. Zwei Zeichenprojekte”. Drawing and collective drawing. Zollhaus Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland.
“Incisioni al femminile”. Engraving. Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy. Engraving.