Photography by Jakayla Monay, courtesy of Weingarten Art Group and Houston Endowment.
Guadalupe Hernandez (b.1993) is a Texas-based multidisciplinary artist who earned his MFAfrom Guadalupe Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. His work explores themes of family, labor, and cultural practices through paintings and cut-paper pieces inspired by the Mexican folk art tradition of Papel Picado. Dedicated to preserving and advancing this tradition, Hernandez blends time-honored techniques with contemporary imagery and narratives.
In 2024, he was awarded the Jones Artist Award by the Houston Endowment, and, in 2023, he received the Nest Heritage Craft Prize for his commitment to sustaining and evolving the art of Papel Picado. In 2022, he was selected as one of six artist pairs for the US Latinx Art Forum Mentorship Program, supporting intergenerational exchange among Latinx artists.
Hernandez is a current studio program artist at Lawndale Art Center and has participated in artist residencies at the Art Students League of Denver, the Asia Society Texas Center, the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and Project Row Houses. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Asia Society Texas Center, Blaffer Art Museum, Chicano Park Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the McNay Art Museum.
Hernandez's works are in the permanent collections of the City of San Antonio Public Collection, San Antonio, TX; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; and the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.