https://www.robbhernandez.com/public-projects daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dc8b89e492ddd0f8ba09ba4/1573435621221/Robb_BronxLaurenClick.jpg Public Projects https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dc8b865913dc6206edfcc67/1573435528454/Robb_Place%2BPractice.jpg Public Projects https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dc8b7fc80e6ab4d112f2f44/1573435690707/MundosAlternos.jpg Public Projects https://www.robbhernandez.com/about daily 0.75 2020-07-26 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dc8ba927cdf127e99aaceba/1573436085079/Robb_NewPic2019.jpg About - About Dr. Hernández Robb Hernández’s research combines the study of Chicanx and Latinx literature with critical approaches in visual, material, and performance studies. He is the author of Archiving an Epidemic: Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde (NYU Press, 2019), which catalogs a queer retelling of the Chicana and Chicano art movement, from its origins in the 1960s, to the AIDS crisis and the destruction it wrought in the 1980s. From remnants, he unveils alternative archival formations in subterranean spaces of queer custodians and collectors to show not what Chicanx art is but what it could have been. He is the author of VIVA Records 1970-2000: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles (2013) and The Fire of Life: The Robert Legorreta—Cyclona Collection, 1962-2002 (2009), published in the “Chicano Archives” series from the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press. In 2017, he co-edited the dossier, “The People of Paper/La Gente de Papel: Rethinking Aztlán’s Printed Matters” for Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. His related articles on David Antonio Cruz, Cyclona, Mundo Meza, Joey Terrill, and Jack A. Vargas appeared in Aztlán, Journal of Visual Culture, MELUS, Radical History Review, and the anthologies Chicana and Chicano Art: A Critical Anthology (2019), Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibition (2016), and Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories (2015). He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Getty Foundation, Ford Foundation, Hellman Foundation, National Association of Chicana/o Studies, Dartmouth College, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA Institute of American Cultures, College Art Association, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and an Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation. https://www.robbhernandez.com/contact daily 0.75 2019-11-11 https://www.robbhernandez.com/courses daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e88/1589988474326/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Courses https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e8e/1589988474335/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Courses https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e84/1589988474298/Aro+Ha_0010.jpg Courses https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e8c/1589988474332/Aro+Ha_0393.jpg Courses https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e8a/1589988474329/Aro+Ha_0380.jpg Courses https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5f31f40429ce6575cdda0e83/5f31f51bec1a8c6d00dac519/1597109554885/hqdefault.jpg Courses https://www.robbhernandez.com/research daily 1.0 2019-11-22 https://www.robbhernandez.com/research/archivinganepidemic monthly 0.5 2019-11-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba07621/5dc8c1bae8290d7830f5a0d8/1573437887758/hernandez_cover_image.jpg Research - Archiving An Epidemic https://www.robbhernandez.com/research/alien-skins monthly 0.5 2019-11-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dd84089fafde645e01e0fc7/1574453463954/Screen+Shot+2019-11-22+at+12.09.18+PM.png Research - Alien Skins - Alien Skins In anticipation of the 2019 travel of Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas to Queens Museum, Hernández was featured in a short video discussing “Alien Skins,” a smaller constellation of the exhibition simultaneously presented at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in SOHO. He highlights the performance art, dance, and staged productions of Latinx artists “dragging the future” in the present. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba07634/5dd83f33c94975562ba7922a/1574453111190/AlienSkins-YT.png Research - Alien Skins "Alien Skins," an interview with Dr. Hernandez on YouTube https://www.robbhernandez.com/research/radicalhistory monthly 0.5 2019-11-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0760a/5dca39910ca1654bf8fe36f2/1573534101583/RHR_122_pr.jpg Research - Radical History https://www.robbhernandez.com/research/menus monthly 0.5 2019-11-22 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dd85596925ca63fe0d30b51/1574458955708/MELUS.jpg Research - Mariconography - MELUS, Summer 2014 “Drawing Offensive/Offensive Drawing: Toward a Theory of Mariconógraphy” unveils the ways in which queer Latinx artists and writers in Southern California developed a distinct visual vocabulary for abject homosexualities and masculinities in a powerful remapping of the offensive in the social landscape. This essay traces a visual genealogy related to maricón iconography dating back to the early twentieth century lithographs of famed Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, novels of John Rechy, and conceptual photo-text portrait collaborations of Joey Terrill and Teddy Sandoval. A theory of mariconógraphy forwards queer of color critique into art history unfastening its white neoliberal gay and lesbian subject while simultaneously new possibilities in queer Chicano visual culture studies as a field of inquiry. MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, Special Issue: Race and Visual Culture, 39 no. 2 (Summer 2014), 121-152. Reprinted in Chicana and Chicano Art: A Critical Anthology. Eds. Ondine Chavoya, Jennifer Gonzalez, Chon Noriega, and Tere Romo (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019). https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0764e/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0764f/1565875580853/20130731_Trade+100_0532.jpg Research - Mariconography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0764e/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba07651/1565875580857/profile-full-center-01-26.jpg Research - Mariconography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0764e/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba07654/1565875580860/profile-full-center-01-29.jpg Research - Mariconography https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba0764e/5dc8b6e8492ddd0f8ba07656/1565875580862/profile-full-center-01-32.jpg Research - Mariconography https://www.robbhernandez.com/research/viva-records monthly 0.5 2019-11-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5dc8b469c64bbb6f82f16c55/t/5dcdf74ab67aa26494d85ead/1573779404252/VIVA_Book.jpg Research - Viva Records - VIVA Records 1970-2000 VIVA Records: Lesbian and Gay Latino Artists of Los Angeles (2013) published by the UCLA CSRC Press is a 116-page book about the first lesbian and gay Latino artist organization in Southern California. In it, Hernández argues that VIVA, founded the same year as the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) in 1987, is precluded from AIDS literary and cultural history due to its complex allegiances to immigration politics, Latin American art, and exhibition practices outside major LA art institutions. Using GIS digital technology to theorize the “documents” of VIVA’s cultural activities, he spatializes the group’s exhibition history, mapping its profound reuse of the urban landscape for lesbian and gay Latino art beyond East LA. With an emphasis on place-making rather than the art documentation alone, he exposes ways in which queer minoritarian artists challenge and rework the relationship between art, evidence, and public space.