Nick hernandez artist biography

Nickhartist, also known as Nicholas Hernandez, is an artist based in Sacramento, California.
Laguna Beach artist Nicholas Hernandez didn't start sculpting until he was 46, but it didn't take long for him to get noticed.
Nick Hernandez is a self-taught geometric painter.

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Bondi Local | Nick Hernandez aka Chocolate Einstein

Nick is an artist who loves to paint. He and Melanie met at the Porch and Parlour on the corner of Ramsgate Avenue and Campbell Parade.

Nick has a stall at the upcoming Finders Keepers market at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern on 11,12 & 13 December 2015.

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Can you tell us a little something about your background?

I guess my family story is my dad was working from a young age coz he lived with his aunties. He was entrepreneurial. He was born in Chile. He was 28 years old when he came out on his own followed by my mum, who he had just married, a month before. I guess with his chopping and changing jobs, going from construction sites to owning a laundromat on Crown Street, to then coming home one day and saying “I’m going to buy a restaurant” and my mother saying “you know nothing about cooking!” but he said he would learn and the next thing he came home and put the day’s takings on the table and mum thought, well maybe there’s something in this after all!

We were living in Coogee at th

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A late bloomer to the sculpting world

Laguna Beach artist Nicholas Hernandez didn’t start sculpting until he was 46, but it didn’t take long for him to get noticed.

Almost 10 years later, in 2001 he was creating artwork for former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. The framed sculpture of their daughter, aptly titled “Chelsea,” now hangs in the Clinton’s New York home, Hernandez said.

Now 65, Hernandez celebrated the unveiling of his sculpture at Chapman University on Feb. 25. A friend of Presidential Fellow Ruebén Martinez, Hernandez was introduced to Chapman during a special chancellor’s art exhibit in October. Shortly afterward he was commissioned by Chapman President Jim Doti to create a sculpture named “Emergence,” which now sits in university’s Escalette Plaza in Orange.

However, Hernandez is no stranger to recognition.

In 2008, he won the Lorenzo il Magnifico de Medici award at the Florence Biennale international art fair in Italy, which he describes as “the Olympics of art.” Hernandez represented the United States among 890 artists — 160 of whom were sculptor

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Lo scultore Nicholas Hernandez, che ha partecipato alla V Florence Biennale 2005 vincendo il quarto premio per la sezione scultura, farà parte del Comitato Internazionale di Selezione della XIV Florence Biennale 2023. Riportiamo di seguito l'articolo di Daniel Langhorne sul Laguna Beach Independent:

Laguna Beach sculptor joins selection committee for Florence art show

Laguna Beach sculptor Nick Hernandez feels like his career is getting a second wind.

Hernandez, 76, has been named to the International Selection Committee that will choose which artists can submit their work to the Florence Biennale 2023 in Florence, Italy. A separate jury will decide which artists take home the Lorenzo il Magnifico International Award for Art and the Leonardo da Vinci International Award for Design.

In a phone interview from his Coast Highway art gallery and studio, Hernandez said he was grateful and honored to be asked to join the selection committee.

“When I got that, it felt like a rebirth of my career,” Hernandez said.

This will be a return trip for Hernandez