Sergio HERNÁNDEZ

Born: 1957, Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Studies: 1980 - National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda", National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City. 1975 - National School of Plastic Arts, Academy of San Carlos, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. 1989 - Scholarship from the National Council for Culture and the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico. 1997- Scholarship, Artistic Creator of the National System of Art Creators, National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Mexico City.

Awards: 2014 - René Portocarrero International Award, Havana, Cuba; 2006 - Cross of Officer of the Order of Isabel la Católica, Embassy of Spain in Mexico, Mexico City; 1983 - Acquisition Award, Drawing Room, Palace of Fine Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City; 1982 - Acquisition Award, Drawing Room, Palace of Fine Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City; 1981 - Second Place, Sahagún National Painting Competition, National Auditorium Gallery, National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City; 1980 - First place, XV National Painting Contest for Students of Plastic Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico; 1978 - Acquisition Award, XIII National Painting Contest for Students of Plastic Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts, Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico; 1978 - Acquisition Award, First Youth Biennial, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Exhibitions: Selection. 1980 - National Institute of Fine Arts and National Autonomous University of Mexico City of Mexico, Mexico; 1984 - Carrillo Gil Art Museum and National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City; 1985 Museum of Santander, Nuevo Laredo, Texas, United States; 1987 - Cultural Center of Mexico, Paris, France; 1998 Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; 1999 - Associated American Artists, New York, United States; 2000 - Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, General Archive of the Nation, Mexico City; 2002 - Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas, United States, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France; 2006 - Autonomous Metropolitan University, Xochimilco Unit, Mexico City, José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City, Mexico; 2008-2009 Tzompantli (Installation) Musée du quai Branly, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paris, France; 2012-2014 Traveling exhibition in galleries, cultural institutes and centers in Oaxaca, Texas, Mc Allen, Las Vegas, Kansas and Minnesota, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs SRE / The Mexican Cultural Institute of San Antonio, Texas and the Mexican Agency of International Cooperation for Development AMEXCID, General Consulate of Mexico in New York, "Octavio Paz Gallery" New York, United States, Contemporary Creation Space, ECCO. Cádiz, Spain; 2013 - Cultural Institute of Mexico, Paris, France, Embassy of Mexico in Germany, Berlin, Germany, National Library of Romania, Bucharest, Romania; 2015 - Library of the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Embassy of Mexico in Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, Gallery of the United Nations Office at Geneva, UNOG, Switzerland, Pulchri Gallery The Hague, Netherlands; 2016 - Gallery Manuel Antonio Mota Foundation of the City of Porto, Portugal, Labirinto della Masone, Parma, Italy, Museum of Modern Art Bogota, Bogota, Colombia, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Museo del Pueblo de Guanajuato, Guanajuato , Mexico, Museo del Exconvento de Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico; 2017- Cultural Center Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico, CECUT, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, Casa Lamm Cultural Center. Mexico City, Hospital de la Santa Caridad, Seville, Spain.

Collections: In Mexico: Museum of Modern Art, National Institute of Fine Arts; Fundación Cultural Televisa Collection; Casa Lamm, Mexico City; Museum of Monterrey, Nuevo León; Soumaya Museum, Mexico City; Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca; Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca; Museum of Contemporary Art of Aguascalientes. Other countries: Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, United States; National Heritage Collection of the Spanish State; Alfredo Harp Helú Foundation Collection; Fundación Vergel Collection; Museum Collection of Philately of Oaxaca MUFI; Permanent Collection Labirinto delle Masone, Franco Maria Ricci; Permanent Collection Embassy of Mexico in Italy.

SERGIO HERNANDEZ, IN AUCTIONS:

Selected results
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 825, Latin American Art, Mexico, 18 May 2017, Lot 110. "Sin titulo", 1996, oil on canvas, 70¾ x 118 in. (180 x 300 cm.). Estimate: MXP 1,500,000 - MXP 2,000,000. Price realised: MXP 1,600,000. (USD 82,135)
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 867, Latin American Art, Mexico, 17 May 2018, Lot 74. "Azul cardumen", 2018, oleo y arena sobre lino, 70¾ x  118  in. (180 x 300 cm.). Estimate: MXP 1,600,000,000 - MXP 2,200,000. Price realised: MXP 1,500,000. (USD 80,213)
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 867, Latin American Art, Mexico, 17 May 2018, Lot 73. "Pulgas equilibristas", 2008, oleo y arena sobre lino, 59 x 59 in. (150 x 150 cm.). Estimate: MXP 900,000 - MXP 1,200,000. Price realised: MXP 1,400,000. (USD 74,867)
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 867, Latin American Art, Mexico, 17 May 2018, Lot 79. "Petimetre", 2018, oleo y arena sobre lino, 59 x 59 in. (150 x 150 cm.). Estimate: MXP 900,000,000 - MXP 1,200,000. Price realised: MXP 800,000. (USD 42,780)
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 867, Latin American Art, Mexico, 17 May 2018, Lot 243. "Tratado de Melancolía", 2004, oleo y arena sobre lino, 49½ x 59 in. (125 x 180 cm.). Estimate: MXP 600,000,000 - MXP 900,000. Price realised: MXP 700,000. (USD 37,453)
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 825, Latin American Art, Mexico, 18 May 2017, Lot 104. "Sin título", 2015, oil on canvas, 39¾ x 31½ in. (100 x 80 cm.). Estimate: MXP 450,000 - MXP 700,000. Price realised: MXP 650,000 (USD 33,368)
	Sotheby's, Auction 134, Latin American Art, New York, 19 - 20 Nov 2002. "Flores nocturnas", 1989, oil on canvas, 65½ x 81¼ in. (166.37 x 206.37 cm.). Estimate: USD 22,000 - USD 28,000 Price realised: USD 29,875
	Luis C. Morton, Auction 688, Latin American Art, Mexico, 14 Nov 2013, Lot 63. "Gotas", 2003, Óleo y arenas sobre lino, 31½ x 31½  in. (80 x 80 cm.). Estimate: MXP 220,000 - MXP 300,000. Price realised: MXP 240,000. (USD 18,377)