Born 1975 in Madrid, Spain
Lives and works in Madrid, Spain
Secundino Hernández (*1975 in Madrid, Spain) started his international gallery-début with his eponymous exhibitions following a Residency at Krinzinger Projekte in 2007. Just five years later, he had his breakthrough in the international art scene by selling six works to the Rubell Family Collection at a presentation at ARCO Madrid 2012. Today, Secundino Hernández, with his large-format paintings, is one of the international artists who shape the contemporary art market. His frenetic oil, gouache, and acrylic paintings refer to action painting, the old masters, especially Spanish ancestors like El Greco and Velázquez, but also to the paintings by Cy Twombly, Francis Picabia, and Joan Miró. A broad spectrum of his abstract painting can be described as opulent, colorful, and expressionist, but also monochrome and ascetically minimalist.
Secundino Hernández’work has been featured in international solo and group exhibitions such as La Pintura y el Fin de Siglo, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Madrid, Spain (1999), 2ª Bienal de Pintura de Estocolmo, Switzerland (2003), Secundino Hernández, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (2007), Pictografie, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, Belgium (2010), Secundino Hernández – The Miettinen collection, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, France (2014), Entre Primavera y Verano, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China (2015), Todo es Mucho, CAC – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain (2018), Secundino Hernández: Apuntes: Themes and Variations, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX, USA (2020). His artwork has been awarded with grants and prizes such as Grant- Casa de Velazquez, Madrid, Spain (2002), Prize- Adquisition, Generación 2004 de Caja Madrid, Spain (2004), Prize- New Talents Program, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany (2008), Prize Catalina D’Anglade (2018). His most recent show at Galerie Krinzinger goes back to 2023, titled sure shot.
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