Artist

Ester Hernandez

born Dinuba, CA 1944
Also known as
  • Ester Medina Hernández
  • Ester Hernández
Born
Dinuba, California, United States

Works by this artist (6 items)

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Ester Hernandez, La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos, 1975, etching and aquatint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Frank K. Ribelin Endowment, 2013.56, © 1975, Ester Hernández
La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los…
Artist
Date1975
etching and aquatint on paper
Not on view
Ester Hernandez, La Ofrenda, from the National Chicano Screenprint Taller, 1988-1989, 1988, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.65.3, © 1988, Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
La Ofrenda, from the National Chicano Screenprint Taller,…
Artist
Date1988
screenprint on paper
Not on view
Ester Hernandez, Wanted, 2010, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2020.12.1, © 2010, Ester Hernández
Wanted
Artist
Date2010
screenprint on paper
Not on view
Ester Hernandez, Sun Raid, 2008, screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 2020.12.2, © 2008, Ester Hernández
Sun Raid
Artist
Date2008
screenprint on paper
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2011.12 - SAAM-2011.12_1 - 77591
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art
October 25, 2013–March 2, 2014
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge.
Media - 2012.53.1 - SAAM-2012.53.1_1 - 82036
¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
November 20, 2020–August 8, 2021
Smithsonian American Art Museum
In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today.

Related Books

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¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
Beginning in the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. Many artists came of age during the civil rights, labor, anti-war, feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, and channeled the period’s social activism into assertive aesthetic statements that announced a new political and cultural consciousness among people of Mexican descent in the United States. The exhibition ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now presents, for the first time, historical civil rights-era prints by Chicano artists alongside works by graphic artists working from the 1980s to today.

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