In Conversation: Ana María Hernando, Katja Rivera & Leilani Lynch

Join us for an engaging dialogue with exhibiting artist Ana María Hernando as she reflects on her practice and her concurrent exhibitions across Colorado. Moderated by Leilani Lynch, Curator at MCA Denver, and Katja Rivera, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, the conversation will explore themes, process, and place—offering deeper insight into Hernando’s evolving body of work.

is on view at MCA Denver until July 5. Show your event ticket at MCA for free admission to see our spring exhibitions.

is on view at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College through July 3.

About the Artist

Ana María Hernando, from Argentina (b. 1959, Buenos Aires), is a Colorado based multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the feminine, using empathy to make the invisible visible, and to question our preconceptions of the other and each other, including nature and the earth, their worth, and value. In her installations, Ana María uses textiles in abundance and sometimes includes the work of women from around Latin America and beyond, from embroideries of cloistered nuns in Buenos Aires, to mountains of tulle, to the weavings and wares of Peruvian women from the Andes. Ana María has a BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, and a BS in Education from the Profesorado Eccleston in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She also studied at the Museum School in Boston, and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P. Pueyrredón. Ana María was the 2020 Prix Henry Clews in Sculpture awardee by La Napoule Art Foundation. She spent 2020 in residency, having a major solo show at the Foundation’s Château and gardens by the Mediterranean in France. She has had solo exhibitions at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Denver Botanic Gardens; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City; Robischon Gallery, Denver; Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota; and University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder. Undomesticated, a documentary about her work by Amie Knox from A bar K Productions, premiered in May of 2018. In 2019, Ana María constructed a temporary public art installation, Flare, a billboard covered in ruffled tulle for Downtown Denver, CO. Ana María has collaborated through the years with master printmaker Bud Shark of Shark’s Ink, who published the last pair of lithographs in 2023. In 2023, her work was included in Narrative Threads at the Moody Arts Center, Houston, and Breakthroughs: A Celebration of RedLine at 15, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Flowering Eulogy, 2023, was commissioned by the City of Boulder to commemorate the 2021 King Sooper shooting.

About the Curators

Leilani Lynch is the Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lynch has organized numerous museum exhibitions, including Movements Toward Freedom (2024), Gala Porras-Kim: A hand in nature (2024); Steven Yazzie: Meandered (2024); Ken Gun Min: The Lost Paradise (2024); and Anna Tsouhlarakis: Indigenous Absurdities (2023). From 2015 to 2022, Leilani held several curatorial positions at The Bass, Miami Beach. There, she curated exhibitions with artists including Jamilah Sabur, Cara Despain, Naama Tsabar, Karen Rifas, Aaron Curry, Mika Rottenberg, in addition to co-organizing exhibitions by Adrián Villar Rojas, Haegue Yang, and Paola Pivi.

Katja Rivera is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (FAC). Recently curated exhibitions include Ana María Hernando: Cantando Bajito (Singing Softly) (2026), Open Hearted (2025), and Hýõng Ngô: Ungrafting (2024). She has also worked with artists such as Senga Nengudi, Na Mira, Laura Sofía Pérez, Maria Gaspar, and Sofía Gallisa Muriente to present their work at the FAC. Previously, Katja served as the Assistant Curator at Logan Center Exhibitions at the University of Chicago and as Research Associate for the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. With a dedication to research-based artistic practice, she is motivated by movement, translation, and fragmentation in contemporary art, and is especially interested in how histories of the Americas manifest in the present.

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