Bio
Albano Hernández
b.1988 Ávila, Spain.
Lives and works in Cambridge, UK.
Graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2022 (MA Painting) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, UCM. The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award sponsored his studies at RCA, where he got a distinction and won the Hine Painting Prize 2022. In 2012 Albano won the BMW Painting Prize and the Obra Abierta Award three years later.
His work is part of public and private collections such as the University of Cambridge (UK), Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (Spain), College of Spain in Paris (France), José Saramago Foundation (Portugal), António Prates Foundation (Portugal), Iturria Foundation (Uruguay), Ankaria Foundation (Spain), Ars Citerior Collection (Spain), National Library of Spain, BMW Ibérica (Spain-Portugal), Venancio Blanco Foundation (Spain), and UBS Europe SE (Spain).
Albano's latest exhibitions have taken place at Pi Artworks Gallery (UK) Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (UK), Salvador Victoria Museum (Spain), Collège d'Espagne (France), Fundación Iturria (Uruguay), and the University of Cambridge (UK).
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Albano receiving the BMW Painting Award 2012 from Her Majesty The Queen Doña Sofía. |