Born in 1970 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.

He earned a degree in Industrial Design at the Havana Superior Institute of Design (ISDI). After graduation in 1994 he began a collaboration experience under the name “Ordo Amoris Cabinet”, after the Latin words for “order” and “love”. Exhibiting widely Hernández’s works has been included at the 51st Venice Art Biennale (Arsenale, 2005), São Paulo Art Biennial (2006), Biennale of Sydney (2006), Kunsthalle Basel (2006), Munich’s Haus der Kunst (2010), London’s Hayward Gallery (2010) and in (2011) with a survey at the MART (2011) in Rovereto, Italy. Hernández lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Hernández’s conceptually-based art practice revolves around found objects, and suggestive or symbolic materials that are (re-)appropriated, while the political rhetoric is always handled subtlety, and discretion avoiding all kinds of the sloganism and propaganda that form part of the Cuban collective consciousness. Hernández’s work can be understood as both social critique but also as a desire for social transformation.