| 1970 | born in Sancti Spiritus, Kuba
lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany |
Education |
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| 1994 | Degree at Havana Superior Institute of Design |
Awards/Grants |
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| 2008 | Rubens-Young Art Award, Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany |
| 2007 | Rubens-Young Art Award, Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany |
| 2005 | Artist in Residence, Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 2001 | ArtPace, Artist in Residence, San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| 1998 | Artist in Residence, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany |
| 1997 | Artist in Residence, „Apocalypso“, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada |
Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | "Line Dreamers", Haus im Süden c/o BOUCHERIE, Köln, Germany "Diango Hernández, Living rooms, a survey" curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, MART, Rovereto, Italy "The Stamps that never travelled and the birds that never flew", Benveniste Contemporary, Madrid, Spain |
| 2010/11 | "A kiss, a hat, a stamp", Blood Mountain Foundation, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2010 | "Museums", Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany. "The importance of a line" (curated by Nuno Faria), Porta33, Madeira, Portugal. |
| 2009 | "Sun State #3: Define Gravity", (collaboration between Andi Toma, Jan St. Werner and Diango Hernández), Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany. "Living Room for Paris", FIAC (solo booth with Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer), Paris, France. "Giardino Tropicale", ARTISSIMA (solo booth with Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery), Torino, Italy. "Losing You Tonight", Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany. "La Historia, Mi Juguete Preferido", Pepe Cobo y Cia, Madrid, Spain. "TH-INK", Alexander and Bonin, NY, US. "El Manual del Tractorista Arrepentido", Zona Maco, (solo booth with Alexander and Bonin NY)-(curated by Adriano Pedrosa), Mexico City, Mexico. "It's also my history", Open space, Art Cologne, (solo booth with Pepe Cobo y Cia), Cologne, Germany. |
| 2008 | "out-of-place artifacts (OOPArt)", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin & Galerie Michael Wiesehöfer, Cologne "Inspire me again", Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium "Diamonds and Stones: My Education", Federico Luger Gallery, Milan, Italy "ON AIR", (with Michaelis Nicolaides), Malkasten Kunstlerverein, Duesseldorf, Germany. |
| 2007 | "Objects of Ridicule", Alexander and Bonin, New York "Power Pencil", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy "Swans without a Lake", Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen |
| 2006 | "Revolution", Kunsthalle Basel "Dictators", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne "Spies", Alexander & Bonin, New York "Traitors", Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid |
| 2005 | "The Museum of Capitalism", Altes Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany "Revantgarde", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy |
| 2004 | "Democracy", Kunstverein Arnsberg (with Boris Michailov), Germany "Amateur", De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands |
| 2003 | "Amateur", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany |
D. H. as member of "Ordo Amoris Cabinet" |
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| 2002 | "Sweet Home", Espacio Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba |
| 2001 | "Mousepads and Screensavers", ArtPace Foundation fo Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas "Network Transmission / Summer Days", Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany |
| 1999 | "Esta cerca es provisional: evite ser requerido/This is a provisional Fence: Keep Out", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba |
| 1997 | "Hiking Raffle", Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada "Hormigon armado/Reinforced Concrete", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana |
| 1996 | "Agua con azucar y La muestra provisional/Sugar Water and The Provisional Show", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba Museo de Arte Contemporaneo y Diseffo (MACD), San José, Costa Rica |
Group Exhibitions |
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| 2011 | "Fronteras en mutación, en tránsito of Bridges & Borders (fase III)", CCEBA, Centro Cultural de Espana en Buenos Aires, Agentina "Local Host", Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany "Tracks", Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein "Drawings Wall", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy |
| 2010 | "Neues Rheinland. Die postironische Generation", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany "Drawings", Alexander and Bonin NY, US "Face to Face, Pepe Cobo y Cia, Madrid, Spain "Touched", The 10th Liverpool Biennial (curated by Peter Gorschlüter), Tate Liverpool, UK "The New Décor" (curated by Ralph Rudolf), Hayward Gallery, London, UK / Garage CCC, Moscow, Russia "Star City" (curated by Alex Farquharson), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK "Who wants to use my window?" Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy "Goldene Zeiten" (curated by Patrizia Dander and julienne lorz), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany "Modelos para Armar: Thinking Latin America from the MUSAC Collection", Spain "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Fear and Terror" (curated by Helmut Friedel and Giovanni Iovane), Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy "Languages and Experimentations", MART Rovereto, Italy. 11th. Triennale der Kleinplastik Fellbach bei Stuttgart |
| 2009 | "Twelve Arguments I/II" (in collaboration with Anne Phülmann), Marieta Clages, Cologne, Germany "Pandora's Sound Box", part of the program of Performa, (curated by Lara Pan), Withe Box, NY, US "Ordinary Revolutions" (curated by Stefanie Kreuzer), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, German "Das Gespinst" (curated by Wilhelm Schürmann), Museum Abteiberg, Mochengladbach, Germany "Danielle Kawaaitaal and Diango Hernandez", Monkeys Island, Cologne, Germany "Precarious Form" (curated by Veit Loers), Galerie Meyer Kainer, Viena, Austria "ev + a 2009, Reading the City" (curated by YIlmaz Dziewior and Angelika Nollert) , Limerick, Ireland "Cambio de Aceite", Pepe Cobo and Cia, Madrid, Spain. |
| 2008 | "On Air", (Curated by Huh joung-en), Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf "BAGHDAD/SPACE COG/ANALYST" (Curated by Andrew Renton), Frith Street Gallery, London, GB "Wessen Geschichte", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany "Kongress der Futurologen" (curated by Thomas Neumann), ICA Dunaujvaros, Hungary "Arise! ye starvelings..." (curated by Mary Cremin), Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland "Articula��es" (curated by Nuno Faria), Fábrica da Cerveja, Faro, Portugal |
| 2007 | "Como vivir juntos", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Chile "Andrzej Wroblewski 1927-1957/Project", The National Museum in Warsaw, Poland "Connected", Altes Museum Mönchengladbach, Germany "Mr. President", University Art Museum, Albany, NY/USA "Made in Germany", Kunstverein Hannover |
| 2006 | "The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society", 2. Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Seville Biennal "Como viver junto", 27. Sao Paulo Biennial "Zones of Contact", Biennial of Sydney "Biennale Cuvée", O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz |
| 2005 | "Always a little Further", Arsenale, 51. Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht", ZKM/Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe "Roboter", Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim "Biwak", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Germany "Opening", Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto, Italy "Nuovo Segnale", Federico Luger Gallery, Milano, Italy |
| 2004 | "Flesh at War with Enigma", Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland "doku/fiction. Mouse on Mars - reviewed & remixed", Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany "Jahresgaben 2004", Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany "Jahresgaben 2004",Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany "In Ictu Oculi", Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla, Spain "Wildlife 04 final", Sommerpalast, Neuss, Germany "Bookies", M29 Brückner + Richter, Köln, Germany "Mideo/Fear", Pepe Cobo Gallery, Sevilla, Spain "With Eyes of Stone and Water", Gallery 3,14, Bergen, Norway* |
| 2003 | 8. Havana Biennial, Cuba |
D. H. as member of "Ordo Amoris Cabinet" |
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| 2003 | "Stretch", Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, Canada "Una de cada clase - Next Generation Show" Centro de Arte y Diseño, Habana, Cuba |
| 2002 | "Prophets of Boom. The Schürmann Collection", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany "With Eyes of Stone and Water", Helsinki Art Museum, Finland "Atravesados. Deslizamientos de identidades y géneros", Fundación Telefónica. Madrid, Spain "FITAC". VIII foro sobre teoría del Arte Contemporáneo. Monterrey, México. "La Huella Múltiple", Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Habana, Cuba |
| 2001 | "Short Stories" La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, Italy "Un dia como otro cualquiera/A day like any other day", 7. Havana Biennial, Cuba "I am Cuba Double play", Tirana Biennale. Tirana, Albania |
| 2000 | "La conjuncion de la nada/The conjunction of nothingness", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts, Havana, Cuba |
| 1999 | "CUBA", Presentl. Barbican Centre, London, UK "Thinking Aloud", Camden Art Centre, London, UK |
| 1998 | "Antennas: Network Transmission/Taxi-Limosina. Provisional Utopias", Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen/Kunsthaus Berlin, Germany "Il Salon de arte cubano contemporanso", Center for the Development of the Visual Arts/Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam/CENCREM/ Fototeca de Cuba. Havana, Cuba "Thinking Aloud", Hayward Gallery, London; Kettle‘s Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse,Manchester "Entropy at Home", Schürmann Collection, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany "The Campaign Against Living Miserably", Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 1997 | "The Russian mountain", 3. Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et ArtÉlectronique, Montreal, Canada "Rompiendo los moldes", 6th Havana Biennial, Cuba |
| 1996 | "Ultimas Noticias", Galería de Matanzas, Cuba |
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