CIELO FELIX-HERNANDEZ

CIELO FELIX-HERNANDEZ (she/her/they/them)

Cielo Felix-Hernandez is a Puerto-rican transdisciplinary artist, primarily working in oil paint, the figures in Felix-Hernandez oil paintings author their own narratives constructed out of familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies.

having grown up between both lands, Felix-Hernandez processes their relationship to land, indigeneity, the historical, and the personal and how those themes affect survival.   U.S’ relationship to Puerto Rico and the coloniality that exists within themes of power on and off the island.

Integrating the personal through through scents, color, and aesthetics connecting back to memory, spiritual practices, and her diasporic-roots, Cielo is responding to past and ongoing colonization–the effects of displacement on the psyche–that have disrupted practices of self-care and have enabled a subconscious form of performativity as a Trans-femme-Boricua.

Felix-Hernandez’ work does not aim for definitive depictions of reality, but to attempt to visualize and practice decolonial ways of performing identity and reclaiming narratives that have been lost or forgotten.