ABOUT ILEANA

Ileana Doble Hernandez is a visual artist who believes that art has the power to make people care, this is why she has been making art for over a decade, as a form of activism. Drawing from her experience as an immigrant and mother, Hernandez creates work that asks the audience to confront issues like gun violence and immigration. 

Through her traveling installations "Mommy, what is this?" more than 700 postcards have been mailed to U.S. elected officials to advocate for gun control. Since 2020 she's collaborated with Imaginary Lines Project, an ongoing socially engaged artistic endeavor that shares the journey of people who have walked the U.S./Mexico border. 

Her conceptually-based practice encompasses many mediums including photography, video and collage. In her lectures, she shares first hand experience about how the uncontrolled gun culture in the United States spurs conflicts around the world, including those related to the drug wars in her home country, Mexico. 

Hernandez has contributed to more than 60 group exhibitions at institutions like the Society of Photographic Education in the U.S., Rencontres d'Arles in France and CICA Museum in South Korea. More recently her works have been shown at the Old Stone House Museum in Brooklyn, and in her current home state of Massachusetts at the Boston City Hall, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Worcester Art Museum. An interview and profile of her show at the Griffin Museum was produced and aired by ABC's WCVB Chronicle this year. Ileana's practice and works have been featured in more than 30 online and print publications, including The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Musee Magazine and Art Scope.

Hernandez was a resident of the inaugural 3-year Studio Residency cohort at the Boston Center for the Arts from 2021-24 and she’s the recipient of several fellowships including the 2020 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund,  the 2021 Leadership Institute of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures and the 2023 Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship from the Boston Arts and Business Council. This year Ileana became a Collective Futures Fund grantee.