Lizette Hernandez

Lizette Hernandez (b. 1992 in Los Angeles, California) uses clay as a mode to investigate ‘Sacred Objects’ and highlight the connections between spiritual ideologies, survival, and nature. She received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2019).

Inheritance and regeneration are common themes found in Lizette Hernandez’s ceramic sculptures. A large component of her practice stems from topics such as cultural practices, community, and oral histories about migration and survival. In particular, Hernandez references and questions belief systems to try to understand the relationship migrant communities from Latin America have with worship. The clay functions not only as a material that speaks to her personal relationship with nature and memory, but also as a vehicle to study what a ‘sacred’ object can be.