Email: onem@hotmail.com
Instagram: instagram.com/weforgotlilacs
Community: Development Team at EWCA (east waterfront Community Association)
All paintings and prints can be rented out to movie and commercial productions, real estate showings, coffee houses, restaurants or sold.
BIO:
Mariana Hernandez is a Toronto based, native to Chile, multi-media artist living in Toronto since 1977. She studied Fine Art at OCAD and has also expanded her skills as a self-taught learner. Vibrant colors, strong line work in drawings and a love and admiration for bodies of water and urban settings are her trademarks. She is also currently an art educator teaching to Non-Profits such as Parkdale Golden Age Foundation and Working Women in Toronto. She is teaching how to paint artifacts at the Gardiner Museum this 2023 season. She lives & works in the Artscape community at Waterfront Toronto East Bayfront area
PAINTING RENTALS
2020 CME Spring Productions Inc for a movie
2020 Facebook Inc for a commercial
SOLO SHOWS
2023 Mavericks Vegan Burgers Permanent Display
2020 Bayside Gallery
2019 Sidewalk Labs Toronto 1 year Exhibit
2018 Gallery City Exhibit. Solo show at Granite Brewery, Toronto. 3 month exhibit.
2016 Staircase Showcase. Above Ground Art Supplies, Toronto. April.
GROUP SHOWS / POP UP SHOPS
2023 Novotel Hotel Toronto Christmas Sale
2022 Pancakes and Booze
2020 / 2021 Bayside Waterfront Gallery 1 month Exhibit
2018 M2 Gallery at Improve Centre Vaughan, Vaughan. 4 month exhibit.
2017 Kingston Art Walk , Upper Beaches Gallery, Toronto. May.
2017 Art in the Park, Harrison Properties, Toronto, June.
2017 Deaf Culture Centre, curated show, Distillery District, Toronto. Sept.
2017 Artscape Youngplace, Sketch Studio, Group Show Dec.
2016 Kingston Art Walk , Upper Beaches Gallery, Toronto. May.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
2018 Art Battle, live painting. Part of Gallery City. Eglinton Town Square, August.
2016 Art Battle, live painting. Part of Scarborough Arts, Art in the Park. August.
COLLECTIONS
2018 Daniels Corporation for Artscape Launchpad Acquisition of: “City Hall Looking through a window’ 36”X48”
2018 Metrolinx, Gallery City. Acquisition of: "Safe Descent" Acrylic on Canvas, 25" x 38".
2016 Art Box Toronto. Licensed 3 images.
2015 Aquavista Bayside Toronto Waterfront Corporate Collection. Acquisition of: "Scattered",
Acrylic on Canvas, 50" x 60"
ART EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2017 Culture Days - September 2017
Created workshop "Mood painting" connecting participants life-experiences result: interactive painting, each persona created individual peice
2010 St Lawrence School - March 2010
Professional drawing classes children with disabilities (7 - 9 years old)
PUBLISHING
2018 Inktober CBC Arts Newsletter. October
2017 Big Art Book Issue 6. Publisher: Scarborough Arts. 3 paintings selected. December.
2017 Distillery District Newsletter. Editor: Keith Veira. Article promoting painting collection.
AWARDS
2018 Start YPA - "Through Your Lens" photo contest. Best Photo Award
EDUCATION
2017 Entrepreneur Through the Arts Program at Artscape Launchpad
2006 OCAD - Fine Art
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
2016 Printmaking Course - Scarborough Arts. June.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2021 Art Educator at Turtle House Family Community Centre
2016 Art City. Volunteer for Staff
2009 AGO. Information Staff for Catherine the Great Exhibit.
1993 - 1994 The Bata Show Museum. Cataloging Coordinator for: Celebrity shoes (Elton
John), 18th Century Mules from China, and Native American Moccasins.