Monique Kimberly Hernandez

Hello Vistor,

My name is Monique Hernandez, and I am a Los Angeles native and formally trained artist. I have loved drawing and painting since I was four years old and have been fortunate to turn that passion into a career.

I taught art school for ten years to ages four and up while I worked on obtaining my associate's degree in the Arts from the College of the Canyons in 2009. However, I began to take art more seriously when I enrolled in Laguna College of Art and Design in 2009.

In 2015, I worked as an associate and sometimes manager for Yolanda Garcia of Casita Del Pueblo, Whittier, California. While there, I assisted in creating art events and organizing Los Muertos Uptown, the biggest Dia de Muertos event in the area. This experience opened the doors for me to lend my art to several mural projects and allowed me to deepen my connection to my Chicano roots.

My husband and I currently reside in Phoenix, Arizona, where I work mainly in acrylics but also dabble in digital art, gouache, watercolor, and linocut. My art is heavily influenced by my ancestors, my love of nature, and my life in Los Angeles. My goal as an artist is to paint, to feed my heart with the desire to unleash my dreams on a canvas and send it out into the world. To paint is passion and purpose, and I plan to continue until I physically can't anymore.