Michelle Hernandez Vega

SCHEMATIC FOR SOLAR POWERED ELSEWHERE (2022)

Hernandez Vega’s work is autobiographically transgenerational and addresses her multicultural heritage. This installation is as the artist calls it, "a mother board structure where a series of objects are arranged to give power and allow for connections." In this case, the work alludes to reaching her family and friends in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Both metaphorically and critically, this work is poignant in its use of symbols, underscoring their relationships to value and accessibility.

Michelle Hernandez Vega (b.1990) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College and a BFA in Photography and Video Art from The School of Visual Arts. Her work explores themes of translation, bicultural assimilation, self-mythification and the relationship between object and memory through multimedia installations, indexical assemblages, writing and improvised occurrences. She has been participated in collaborative exhibitions within alternative spaces such as Dispersed Holdings, NYC; Rinomina, Paris; Estudio Marte 221, Mexico City, and Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan.