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Albano Hernández

Spanish artist, born in Ávila in 1988 and based in Cambridge. He shapes brushstrokes from air-dry clay and slices them on an electric food slicer. Then he lays the slices out in the order a Western eye reads a line.

Published by ArtisDomus, written by Polina Surina.

Albano Hernández, portrait: a man in an orange work jacket over a green shirt, with dark curled hair and blue-framed glasses, standing in his studio.
Albano Hernández.
01/05
A white canvas worked in close rows of ribbed impasto, lit from above in a pale panelled frame on the wall, a marble-topped console below.
Pl. 01 Albano Hernández. P25.12, 2025, at AKI, One Cavendish Square, London. Made from materials collected in the restaurant. Photograph Rian Davidson.

Profile

Studied in Madrid and at the Royal College of Art, represented by Pi Artworks.

Born
1988, Ávila, Spain
Based
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Education
Master of Arts in Painting, Royal College of Art, 2022. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid.
Material
Air-dry clay, cut on an electric food slicer
Awards
BMW Painting Prize, 2012. Obra Abierta Award, 2015. Hine Painting Prize, 2022. The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award paid for his years at the Royal College.
Solo exhibitions
Bah! Forraje!, 2022, and Chop! Chop! Chop!, 2023, both in London.
Public collections
Nine, among them the National Library of Spain and the Fundação José Saramago.
A work
P24.12, 2024. Air-dry clay, PVA, acrylic and waste materials on woodboard, 59,5 × 42 cm.
02/05

Exhibitions

Solo shows in London in 2022 and 2023, then group shows in London and Istanbul.

2025
  • Crossing Lines, Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Türkiye — group
2024
  • Beyond Form, Pi Artworks, London, United Kingdom — group
2023
  • Chop! Chop! Chop!, Pi Artworks, London, United Kingdom — solo
2022
  • Bah! Forraje!, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom — solo, running into 2023

His work has also been shown at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Frieze Sculpture Park, Palmer Gallery, Salvador Victoria Museum, Collège d’Espagne, Fundación Iturria and the University of Cambridge.

03/05

Public collections

His work is in nine public collections, five of them in Spain and Portugal.

Spain
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid
  • National Library of Spain, Madrid
  • BMW Ibérica, Madrid
Portugal
  • Fundação José Saramago, Lisbon
  • Fundação António Prates, Ponte de Sor
Elsewhere
  • Collège d’Espagne, Paris
  • Fundación Iturria, Uruguay
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge
  • UBS Europe SE, Frankfurt
04/05

At AKI and in the studio

A work made from materials collected in the restaurant where it hangs.

P25.12, 2025, hangs at AKI, One Cavendish Square. He made it from materials collected in the restaurant. Rian Davidson of Port Blue Studio took the studio photographs.

The artist’s hands at a work surface, slices of white clay laid out in a row beside a tray.
Pl. 02 Albano Hernández. The slices laid out in a row.
The artist’s hands, white clay dried on the skin, holding a worked lump.
Pl. 03 Albano Hernández. The clay on the hands.
The artist at work in his studio, an electric slicer in front of him holding a block of white clay, a white bowl at his side.
Pl. 04 Albano Hernández. The artist in the studio, at the slicer.
05/05

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Sources

  • Pi Artworks, artist page for Albano Hernández
  • Pi Artworks, work page for P24.12