20 North Gallery

Solo Exhibition featuring three series of work utilizing both new media and traditional painting techniques by Dan Hernandez.

Free Public Opening Reception
Friday, January 14, from 6 – 9 p.m.

A multiverse view of culture, technology and the video game

20 North Gallery is proud to welcome back painter Dan Hernandez in Dan Hernandez: New Work, a solo exhibition featuring three series—one familiar to longtime collectors, two making a debut—including work created during the turbulent, previous year. Combining new media and traditional painting techniques, Hernandez synthesizes the styles of video game culture with the influences of art history to explore the visual dialogue between religion, mythology and pop culture.

The mixed media artworks of Dan Hernandez create a captivating intersection between art styles of the past and present. Having identified similarities between the narrative styles of medieval, Renaissance and 8- and 16-bit video game art, Hernandez takes elements of digital culture then draws, paints and screenprints engrossing works that connect cultures hundreds of years apart. Longtime fans of Hernandez’s work will be delighted to see new pieces of his Genesis series, as well as to view the debut of his new Reset and Los Santos series. These new series draw inspiration and source material from a variety of consoles and games including Nintendo, Sega Genesis and Grand Theft Auto V.

The Dan Hernandez: New Work exhibition catalogue, containing containing full art images, prices and artist information will be available here soon.

20 North Gallery and the artist will be welcoming friends and collectors at the free, public opening reception on Friday, January 14, from 6 – 9 p.m. The event will feature a free, light tapas buffet and cash bar by Venue.

We are working to keep you safe—Masks are highly recommended in the gallery, regardless of vaccination status. We kindly request that individuals who feel unwell/are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 remain at home. At the reception, our event capacity limits will be observed.

This exhibit continues through March 26, 2022.

Dan Hernandez (Maumee, Ohio)
Dan Hernandez was born in San Diego, California in 1977. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000 from Northwest Missouri State (Maryville) and a Masters of Fine Arts in 2002 from American University (Washington, DC). He currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at The University of Toledo (Ohio).

Since 2017, he has served The Arts Commission (Toledo, Ohio) on the Board of Trustees and as Co-Chair for the Art in Public Places Committee.

Hernandez’s paintings utilize both traditional and new media techniques to explore the visual dialogue between religion, mythology and pop culture. He has had solo exhibitions in galleries in Ohio, Michigan and Arkansas. His work has been included in many group exhibitions, including shows at Shizaru Gallery (London, UK), Southern Ohio Museum (Portsmouth, Ohio) Cindy Rucker Gallery (New York City), Strohl Art Center (Chautauqua, New York), Contemporary Arts Center (Las Vegas, Nevada) Lehman College Art Gallery (Brooklyn, New York), Westport Art Center (Westport, Connecticut), and the Riffe Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), MassArt Art Museum (Boston, Massachusetts), with his most recent group exhibition being The Garden of Earthly Delights, Through the artworks of Colección SOLO at Matadero Madrid, Centro de Creación Contemporánea (Madrid, Spain) as well as the two-artist show Hyphenated at McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina (Columbia, South Carolina) in 2021. Hernandez is represented at Galeria Meraki in Ponte de Sor, Portulgal in addition to Kim Foster Gallery in New York City, where he has enjoyed five solo shows and at 20 North Gallery, where he will have his most recent solo exhibit, Dan Hernandez: New Work on view through March of 2022.

His work is in numerous private collections, both national and international, and has been featured and reviewed in several distinguished publications, including ARTnews, HyperAllergic, Artillery Magazine, Arte Fuse, Gizmodo, and Der Spiegel. Dan Hernandez was awarded the Bellinger Award at the Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art in 2010 and has been twice selected for an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, in 2011 and 2015.

The Dan Hernandez: New Work exhibition catalogue, containing containing full art images, prices and artist information will be available here soon.

For purchase inquiries, please contact 20 North Gallery: 419-241-2400  or  info@20northgallery.com