Carlos Servando Hernandez, a native Texan from El Paso, studied Painting

and Drawing at The School of Visual Arts and Design at The University of

North Texas. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, he was accepted into the MFA painting program at The San Francisco Art Institute.

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Hernandez later pursued an MFA in Video and Performance Art

and produced a series of sculpture and audio installations.

After his acceptance into the New Genres graduate program

at SFAI, he created a series of films which garnered him

Best of Show at the MFA graduate exhibit held at Fort Mason.

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In New York Hernandez worked as a teaching assistant and was part of

The Old School for Social Sculpture. The Mike Osterhaut led workshop

featured artists Alex Grey, Kiki Smith, Robin Winters, Tony Labat and

writer Carlo McCormick.

 

Hernandez moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to pursue art and work in sound.

He composed music featured on shows for MTV, VH1, ESPN and Fox Sports. He also collaborated on several films of which he was credited as soundtrack composer and editor.

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Hernandez continued painting out of his Venice Beach studio and in 2005 he exhibited his first solo show in Santa Monica, California. The show included twelve large scale oil paintings, as well as a film which he edited and

composed the soundtrack. His works were also featured at galleries in Hollywood, Downtown LA and Venice Beach before he returned to

New York in 2009.

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For the next decade he lived and worked out of his West Village studio in Manhattan until late 2019 when he ventured west to Taos, New Mexico.

He currently works out of his studio in the canyon.