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Sam Hernandez

American
(Hayward, California, 1948 – 2022)
Hernández is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation (1978); Individual Artist Fellowship, Cultural Council of Santa Clara County (1983); Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1985); Senior Fulbright Scholar Artist-in-Residence Award, Skopje University, Macedonia; and a President’s Fund Grant, Santa Clara University (2003). He has exhibited his work national and international and included in such public collections as the Honolulu Museum of Art; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, California; Oakland Museum of California; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Hernández is currently a professor of art at Santa Clara University, California, an institution he has taught at since 1977.


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Born in 1948 in Hayward, California, Sam Hernández received his degrees from California State University, Hayward (B.A., 1970) and University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.F.A, 1974). Hernández is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including a James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation (1978); Individual Artist Fellowship, Cultural Council of Santa Clara County (1983); Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1985); Senior Fulbright Scholar Artist-in-Residence Award, Skopje University, Macedonia; and a President’s Fund Grant, Santa Clara University (2003). He has exhibited his work national and international and included in such public collections as the Honolulu Museum of Art; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, California; Oakland Museum of California; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Hernández is currently a professor of art at Santa Clara University, California, an institution he has taught at since 1977. (Acquisitions Committee Biography, September 2013)


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