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Root-soak
Rooted in autobiography, this painting references the artist's upbringing between the island of Puerto Rico and the mainland of the United States. The composition contains traces of the past that express the artist’s diasporic roots, as well as her mother's and grandmother's. This work is part of a series by the artist that features a feminine figure who exists as an icon of self-fashioning and self-care—representing for the artist an expansive, trans-femme future that exists beyond the confining narratives of colonial history and marginalization. This figure's quotidian activities are rendered iconic through swirls of pink light.
Working primarily in oil paint, Cielo Felix-Hernandez draws on memory and aesthetics derived from cultural legacy to reflect her lived experience as a trans-femme Boricua. The artist's exuberant palette and detailed, referential compositions draw viewers in to a space of care, resilience and joy.
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Working primarily in oil paint, Félix-Hernández depicts figures who author their own narratives using familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies.
Cielo Félix-Hernández was born in 1998 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Félix-Hernández received her BFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Recent group exhibitions include Puerto Rico Negrx, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Puerto Rico (San Juan, Puerto Rico), “Pictures Girls Make:” Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, (Los Angeles, CA), Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters (Los Angeles, CA), DOMESTICANX, curated by Susanna Temkin, El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY), Ojos del Perro Azul, Marinaro (New York, NY), Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), Visions and Nightmares, Simone Subal Gallery, curated by Baseera Khan (New York, NY), Flame Tree, REGULARNORMAL, curated by Bony Ramirez (New York, NY), documento, Embajada (San Juan, Puerto Rico), My Flannel Knickers, Sargent's Daughters (New York, NY), Dynasty, curated by Amy Goldrich, Christopher K. Ho, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, and Sara Reisman, PS122 Gallery (New York, NY). She had her first New York solo exhibition nieta at Sargent’s Daughters in January 2022, which was reviewed by Artnet, Artsy and Platform Art. Félix-Hernández is in the permanent collection at El Museo del Barrio (New York, NY). Sargent’s Daughters also presented a solo booth of new works by Félix-Hernández at NADA Miami 2022 and a solo exhibition in Los Angeles in 2023. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Abrons Art Center, New York, NY. She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters.
Rooted in autobiography, this painting references the artist's upbringing between the island of Puerto Rico and the mainland of the United States. The feminine figure in this work represents an expansive, trans-femme future that exists beyond the confining narratives of colonial history and marginalization.More
- Unframed
- Signed
