Listening to the Wind with a Pencil

Artist Biography

Ana María Hernando, from Argentina and based in Colorado, is a multidisciplinary artist. She is  interested in making the invisible visible and devotedly exploring the sacred feminine through women's  rich histories, daily lives, and relationship to hand-worked textiles and wares.
 
Ana María was awarded the 2020 Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture for La Napoule Art Foundation, receiving  a residency and solo show at their château in  France for that same year. Her recent awards and  recognitions include: First Prize recipient for Biennial of the Americas 2021; the 2022–2023 S*Park Resource Artist at Redline; the Boedecker Path to Excellence Grant, where she will present a community  collaborative performance at the Dairy Art Center, CO in 2023; and a nomination by Nora Burnett  Abrams for 2024 Women to Watch, CCNMWA. Other solo exhibitions include MCA Denver, Kemper  Museum of Contemporary Art, BMoCA, Oklahoma and Marfa Contemporaries, Tweed Museum of Art,  International Center of Bethlehem — West Bank, Denver Botanic Gardens, CU Art Museum, and Sun Valley Museum of Art. In 2018, Undomesticated, a documentary about her work  by Amie Knox, premiered. For years she has collaborated with master printmaker Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink.