José Antonio Hernández-Diéz is a Venezuelan artist known for his works that combine technology, pop culture and socio-political references, creating installations with a strong visual and conceptual impact.
In 2001 he participated in the VI edition of Art to Art with a project realised for the Linari Castlean intervention that dialogued with the history and architecture of the place, offering a reflection on memory and the perception of space.
José Antonio Hernández-Diez (Caracas, 1964) lives and works between Barcelona and Caracas. He is one of the best known Venezuelan artists on the international scene. His work focuses on formal, visual and material redefinitions of everyday objects. Through various and disconcerting processes of metamorphosis he does not hesitate to create paradoxical, hallucinatory situations, fortuitous encounters between living animals, food, video materials, assemblages and random collages, the result of constant experimentation. The references to the culture of Latin America are manifold and are the thread running through many of his projects. Hernàndez-Diez has participated in many group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennial in 1993, the Havana Biennial in Cuba in 1994, the Kwangju Biennial in Korea in 1995, the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil in 1996; recently the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York dedicated a solo exhibition to him.