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Nelson Hernandez

Nelson Hernández, Chilean painter from Patagonia, based in London. Graduate of the Royal College of Art (MA Painting).

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Finalist at The Hopper Prize

August 2026

I am pleased to share that I have been selected as a finalist in the 2026 round of this prestigious international award, which gives unrestricted grants and has already added thirty artists to its public archive. The distinction includes an interview published on the platform.

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Narrativas, Pavilion Club Knightsbridge

June 2026

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.

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Web of Life, Kindred Studios

June 2026

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.

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award, Laing Art Gallery

March 2026

Ukrainian girl travels to Newcastle alongside the 46 portraits chosen by the National Portrait Gallery jury. At the Laing Art Gallery until 4 September.

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In the Studio with: Nelson Hernández

March 2026

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.

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Loop State, D-Contemporary

March 2026

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.

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What We Take, Pipeline Gallery

March 2026

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.

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CAN Art Fair: Contemporary Art Now, Madrid

March 2026

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.

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Fever Dreams, solo exhibition at Isabel Croxatto Gallery

January 2026

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.

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Selected for Wari x CM The Selects

September 2025

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.

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Travers Smith CSR Art Programme

June 2025

Selected for the art programme of the London law firm Travers Smith, which shows work by emerging artists across its offices.

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