Biography 

Rodrigo Hernández-Gómez (Anahuac, Mexico) 

Rodrigo Hernández-Gómez is a Mexican visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. Rodrigo holds a master’s degree in fine arts (2010) from York University in Toronto. In 2013, he was a co-organizer of the Decolonial Aesthetics Symposium at the Art Museum of the University of Toronto. Rodrigo is a founder member of AYOTZI 68 based in Vancouver, a cultural organization for supporting hemispheric Indigenous sharing in contemporary art, radical education, and food sovereignty movements. He is a member of La Lleca Colectiva in Mexico City, and is also a member of the board of directors at the e-fagia organization for media arts in Toronto. 

Rodrigo Hernández-Gómez’s studio work includes visual and performative epistemic resistance and resurgence. His work is informed by Indigenous histories and cultural practices, which grounds him in a decolonial approach to his interventions. His work has been included in the project Queering Deep Time-Stone Walks (2018), presented by Walking Lab, Edinburgh University. Rodrigo’s installations have also been part of the collective exhibitions Las aves/ the birds (2016) at Galería Nixon in Mexico and Takes Everyone to Know No One (2011), curated by Ana Barajas, The Art Museum, University of Toronto, Toronto.