Yasmín Hernández - Art & Liberation - 009

Pardon My Art - Unlocking the Business of Creativity

Today’s guest is Yasmín Hernández, a Brooklyn-born and raised artist, based in el oeste de Borikén. Yasmin and I have a number of mutual friends and associates and watching her share her art and her activism clearly made her someone who I could connect with about the motherland and art related to the place of our ancestors.
Yasmín’s work as a portrait artist is rooted in new and ancestral liberatory practices. Her 2009 project Bieké: Tierra de Valientes, a tribute to activists who ended US Navy bombing practices on Vieques, led her to the bioluminescence areas along the coast and this transformed her creative aesthetics and inspired her 2014 rematriation to the island of Puerto Rico.
Living four months without electricity after Hurricane María, the fireflies of those dark nights reignited her interest in bioluminescence. While reflecting on the perpetual darkness of power outages, climate change and colonialism, in the fall of 2022 she launched CucubaNación, an art space in Mayagüez dedicated to the liberatory lessons of Boricua bioluminescence.
Yasmín’s art is inspiring and thought provoking allowing the viewer to see her full authentic self emoting through her art. Her Rematriating Borikén project explores the decolonial journey home in aesthetics inspired by the Puerto Rico Trench.
Yasmín has a BFA in Painting from Cornell University and has worked as an educator with Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, El Museo del Barrio, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
She shares her art and her writing at YasminHernandezArt.com and RematriatingBoriken.com.

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