About

Enrique Hernandez is a Spanish artist based in London. His work revolves around people, objects and the emotional states they can carry when observed or pushed beyond their usual boundaries. He looks closely at how bodies, gestures, drapery and everyday forms shift under tension or distortion, and how these shifts reveal coexistence, contradiction and the presence of forces that are not immediately visible. His practice examines weight, pressure and balance in a direct, grounded way, treating ordinary subjects as sites where instability, conflict or deeper meaning can surface.Enrique selects each medium carefully, allowing surface, texture and physical handling to shape how forms develop, shift or fragment: lifting charcoal back, covering and reworking the surface, letting the form emerge through repeated removal and abrasion, mixing gouache or oil with thick resins and powders, or using water-based media in waterproof surfaces. By working with materials that can be built up, dragged, erased or scratched, he blurs the line between depicting a texture and constructing one. This approach allows familiar scenes to bend toward the psychological, the symbolic or the quietly surreal, using form and surface to open a space where the viewer can sense tension, uncertainty or the suggestion of something larger behind the visible image.

 Selected Exhibitions

· 2026: The Art Academy of London, London, UK
· 2025: Under the Same Sky, Nua Collective, London, UK
· 2025: One Off, Candid Gallery, London, UK
· 2023: Love Art After Dark, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
· 2022: Defaced, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

 Publications

· 2026: Anecdotes, Issue 03 (Summer 2026), Nua Collective
· 2026: Anecdotes, Issue 02 (Winter 2025/26), Nua Collective
· 2025–26: Featured with Nua Collective in The Urgency of Art, Issue 12 (December 2025/January 2026), Vol. 3
· 2025: Anecdotes, Issue 01 (Autumn 2025), Nua Collective
 

 Awards, Residencies and Affiliations

· 2025: Autumn Peer Prize, The Art Academy London, London, UK
· 2025–present: Nua Collective, Ireland
· 2024–present: Member, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
· 2023–2024: Kunstfuck Art Residency, Budapest, Hungary
· 2022–2024: East London Strippers Collective, London, UK
 

Teaching and Workshops

Enrique teaches drawing and painting with a focus on gesture, structure, observation and material exploration. He offers individual sessions by request and leads group workshops exploring expressive approaches to line, form, texture and the human figure.His teaching has included life-drawing workshops at Tindalls Art, Cambridge, where he led The Expressive Line in Life Drawing in 2026, as well as individual tuition.
 

Artistic Development

Enrique is largely self-taught, developing his practice through sustained independent study, life drawing, and collaborative studio environments. His artistic development has been shaped by studies at The Art Academy London, alongside periods of study and creative exchange within international institutions and artist communities through collaborations.