Nelson Hernández, Chilean painter from Patagonia, based in London. Graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting).
15 news items
A new interview for The Hopper Prize, which awarded me one of its four grants in the Spring 2026 round. On painting as a cultural vehicle, and a Latin American experience closer to Cartoon Network and European history than to the tropics.
Isabel Croxatto Gallery presents Errantes, a solo show by Nelson Hernández, at the first edition of PARAÍSO, the Latin American art fair arriving in London during Frieze week. Booth 6, Ambika P3, from 15 to 18 October.
Wedding crashers has been selected for ArtEvol 2026: A View from Everywhere, the international group show London Art Collective presents at Saatchi Gallery. Curated by Nelson Qin, it brings together work chosen by an international jury. From 3 to 10 October.
Collapse of meaning I has been selected for the 173 Annual Open Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. The show brings together more than five hundred works chosen by a panel including Sheryll Catto, Ceri Hand and Paul Hedge alongside RWA Academicians. From 12 September 2026 to 3 January 2027.
I am pleased to share that I have received a grant in the Spring 2026 round of The Hopper Prize, an international award that gives unrestricted grants.
A group show presented in London by CM Art Advisory and The Pavilion, bringing together practices rooted in the Global South around colour understood as grammar rather than decoration. Reviewed by The Urgency of Art Magazine.
The Chimera has been selected for the themed exhibition at Kindred Studios Open Studios, in west London. The open call asked each piece to engage with the idea of a web of life. Until 29 September.
Ukrainian girl travels to Newcastle alongside the 46 portraits chosen by the National Portrait Gallery jury. At the Laing Art Gallery until 4 September.
An interview with Art in Latin America on returning to painting after years away from it, the place of portraiture in his practice, and a process that runs from 3D scanning to oil paint.
Two paintings in a sixteen-artist group show curated by Nia Hefe Filliogianni, on repetition and the cyclical as a condition of the present. D-Contemporary with Cream Athens, London.
Four paintings in the first London exhibition by Art in Latin America, co-curated with CM Art Advisory at Pipeline, Fitzrovia. Alongside Benito Ekmekdjian, Alessandra Risi and Eliel David Martínez Julián.
Isabel Croxatto Gallery takes eight paintings from Fever Dreams to Matadero Madrid, in the FOCO LATAM section curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné. From 4 to 7 March.
Eleven new paintings in the gallery’s Local 2 space in Santiago, from 14 January to 14 February. Dreamlike scenes built from museum sculptures, toys and London street corners.
A programme run by Wari Art and CM Art Advisory that chose a first cohort of international artists based in London. Its opening show was Terraforming, during Frieze week.
Selected for the art programme of the London law firm Travers Smith, which shows work by emerging artists across its offices.