Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow)
October 11
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March 01, 2026
Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow)
Outdoor Projects
Opening Soon
In her first Los Angeles museum presentation, artist Liz Hernández (b. 1993, Mexico City; lives and works in Oakland, CA) presents a new, site-specific mural on ICA LA’s 7th street facade. A multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture, embroidery, and writing, Hernández is recognized for a singular visual language influenced by Mexican cultural traditions and crafts, legends and folktales, Catholic iconography, and her own familial memories. Titled Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow), Hernández’s mural will feature a patchwork of text and images addressing the ongoing attacks on immigrant and undocumented populations throughout the United States. Drawing from a deeply personal place, Hernández’s work will offer a narrative expressing a complexity of related feelings and honor the ways affected communities continue to live, grow, and nourish one another amidst attempts to silence and to stifle.
_Revelación (Revelation)_ , 2024, Acrylic on wood panel, 54 x 44 inches. Image courtesy the artist.
Liz Hernández (b. 1993, Mexico City, Mexico) creates art rooted in storytelling, using painting, sculpture, and textiles to blur the boundary between the real and the imagined. Writing anchors her practice; each series begins with a short story that guides the creation of handcrafted objects and images. Her work engages both personal and collective narratives, often centered on memory, womanhood, and transformation. Driven by material experimentation, she studies ancestral techniques such as embroidery and repujado, reinterpreting these Mexican craft traditions to shape a visual language of her own. She has exhibited in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Mexico City. Her work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the de Young Museum, and KADIST.
Liz Hernández: Donde piso, crecen cosas (Where I step, things grow) is co-organized by Amanda Sroka, Senior Curator, and Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle, Curatorial Associate.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council and Fieldwork Council.