Photo by Laura Ciriaco
María del Mar Hernández Gil de Lamadrid is a visual artist and photographer based between Puerto Rico and New York City. Using photography and video as a creative and conceptual process, her work approaches issues of identity, mediated representation, colonial history, and climate change in a Caribbean context. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, and is a Master of Fine Arts in Photography, from Parsons School of Design, The New School, NYC. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Governing Bodies, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, NYC, Apparatus of Discomfort, Photoville, Brooklyn, and Yokosuka Peace Art Exhibition & International Biennial of Prints, Japan, among others. She was a recipient of the Parsons Graduate Travel Award, which enabled her to travel to China for two weeks to execute a project proposal and participate in "Unfixed" at the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Most currently, she participated in The Spruce Art Residency in Indiana, PA and in the group exhibition We Are Here To Serve You, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, NYC.