Alana Hernandez
[Image description: A color photograph of Alana Hernandez standing with arms crossed, smiling. She is in front of a concrete wall and a wall bound sculpture made up of electrical conduits, boxes, wiring. She has brown skin, red lipstick, dark hair pulled back in a bun, and is wearing a black jumpsuit] Photo: Zachary Barron
Alana Hernandez is Executive Director and Curator at CALA Alliance (Celebración Artística de las Américas), a multidisciplinary Latinx arts organization based in Phoenix, AZ. She previously served as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, where she organized the exhibitions More like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris (2019); México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Álvarez Bravo (2019); and To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo (2020).
Prior to her time at MCASD, Hernandez was a Curatorial Project Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York where she was a member of the curatorial team lead by Barbara Haskell for Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 (2020). Hernandez also assisted Marcela Guerrero in mounting Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art (2018). Prior to joining the Whitney’s staff she was a Curatorial Fellow at Páramo in Guadalajara, Mexico where she worked on the exhibition Margen-Borde-Orilla: Un Siglo de Creación Independiente, 1906-2016 (2016), and a Curatorial Fellow at Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York. She has held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York the Phoenix Art Museum, and BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn. Hernandez received her M.A. from CUNY Hunter College where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art.
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