Daniel Hernandez-salazar

Daniel Hernández-Salazar
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Awards:

-Chevallier de L´Ordre Des Arts et Des Letres. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. France. 2005.
-Asuza-Sho Award to the book: «Guatemala Memory of an Angel: Work in progress of Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Japan, 2005.
-Jonathan Mann Humanitas Award. International Association of Physicians in Aid's Care. Chicago 1998.
-Replica of the Nobel Peace Prize Medal given by Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize 1992.
-Third Prize, Emancipation and Identity of Latin America contest, Quito, Ecuador, 1992.
-First Prize, black & white photo, VI Art Biennial, Guatemala, 1990.
-First Prize, color photo, IV Art Biennial, Guatemala, 1986.
One Man Exhibitions:
-Memory of an Angel. Session House, Tokio, Japan. 2004
-Memory of an Angel, 2003. Sponsored by the French Embassy. Metropolitan Cultural Center. Guatemala 2003.
-Memory of an Angel. Chicago Film Festival. Havana Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. USA. 2003
-The Path of an Angel. La Peña Gallery, Austin, Texas. USA. 2003
-27-2002. PhotoEncuentro, Jade Museum. San José, Costa Rica. 2003.
-27-2002. Month of the Photo, Modern Art Museum. Guatemala 2002.
-P.P.P. Month of the Photo. El Sitio Cultural Center, Antigua Guatemala, 2002.
-From fact to Memory. Casa de América, PhotoEspaña 2001. Madrid, 2001
- Inherentes Truths, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001.
-Threshold of Creation. Rafael Landívar University Art gallery, Guatemala, 2001.
-Memory of an Angel. Modern Art Museum, Guatemala, 2000.
-Beyond Weapons. El Attico Gallery, Guatemala, 1999.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces, Guatemala City, 1999.
-Musicians from Guatemala. University Gallery, University of Massachusets. USA, 1999.
-Escalrecimiento. Centro de la Imagen, Fotoseptiembre. México, D.F. 1998.
-Rostros de la Música. Nezahualcoyotl Music Hall, Fotoseptiembre. México, D.F. 1998.
-Eros+Thánatos. Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio Texas, U.S.A. 1998.
-Eros+Thánatos. National Exhibition Hall, San Salvador, El Salvador, 1998.
-Eros+Thánatos. Sol del Río Gallery, Guatemala, 1997
-Daniel Hernández-Salazar: recent work. CAM Foundation, Alicante, Spain, 1996.
-Ecce Homo. El Sitio Gallery, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. 1995
-Visages de la Musique. Centre National de la Photo, Lectoure, France. 1994.
-Indigenous Leaders from Around the World. II World Indigenous Summit, Mexico, 1993.
-Faces of the Music. Sol del Rio Gallery, Guatemala, 1993.
-Epiphany. El Attico Gallery, Guatemala, 1989.
-Silver on Gelatin. Guatemalan American Cultural Institute, Guatemala, 1987.

Actions:

-Street Angel. Instalation comemorating Mons. Juan Gerardi's assasination 8th. Aniversary . Guatemala, 2006.
-Street Angel. Instalation in Tlatelolco Square. México D.F. 2006.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces. Hiroshima. Japan. 2004.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces. Chicago, Illinois. USA. 2003.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces. Austin, Texas, USA. 2003.
-Ange de la Rue. Instalation in public spaces. Montréal, Canada, 2002.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2001.
-Street Angel. Instalation in public spaces. Guatemala City, 1999.






Group Exhibitions:

-Adiós Identidad. Spanish Cultural Center. Guatemala, 2007.
-City. Spanish Cultural Center. Guatemala, 2006.
-JUANNIO. Contemporary Art Charity Auction. Modern Art Museum. Guatemala, 2006.
-Images from Guatemala 1850-2005. 57 photographers from CIRMA´s phototeca. Spanish Cooperation Agency. Antigua Guatemala. 2005.
-JUANNIO. Contemporary Art Charity Auction. Modern Art Museum. Guatemala, 2005.
-Why we are as we are. CIRMA. Cobán, Guatemala. 2005
-Why we are as we are. CIRMA. Old Highlands Train Station. Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. 2004
- Why we are as we are. CIRMA. Industrial Park, Guatemala. 2004
-Maternities Plus. Spanish Cultural Institute. Guatemala. 2003.
-Mundos Creados. Noorderlicht Photo Festival. Groningen, Holanda, 2002.
-Zonas de Tensión, Art from Guatemala. «de Gang». Haarlem, Holanda. 2002.
-An eye on Latin America, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, USA. 2001
-Contexto, Contemporary in Guatemala. Las Francesas Church, Valladolid, España. 2001.
-Adyacent Zones, Sol del Río, Guatemala. 2001.
-Young guatemalan artists. Sala de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City, 2000.
-Objects of passion. Aldo Castillo Gallery. Chicago, U.S.A., 2000.
-Independent Artistic Project, PAI. Cabildo Insular de Fuerteventura, Canarias, España, 2000.
-WWW.EN.dE. Annual Art show. Leipzig, Alemania, 1999.
-Art without name. Independent Artistic Project, PAI. Plaza G&T, Guatemala, 1998.
-The body in/of photography. Contemporary Art and Design Museum, San José, Costa Rica, 1998.
-Fotojornada 98. Modern Art Museum, Guatemala City, 1998.
-Heads Up, New Faces in Contemporary Art. Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, 1998.
-Five Guatemalan Photographers. Arte x Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires, 1997.
-Iron Ways. Traveling exhibition sponsored by the Spanish National Railways, Spain, 1997.
-I Central American Art Meeting. National Culture Institute, Panama City, 1996.
-Summer, an erroneous perception of reality. Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York, 1995.
-Close to the Wild Heart. Latin American photographers. Aspekte Gallerie, Munich, 1992.
-Latin-American Photography: Present Trends. Santa Maria de la Rabida, Huelva, Spain, 1991.
-Emancipation & Identity of Latin America:1492-1992, Quito 1990.
-Guatemalan Art Exhibit. Teramo, Italy, 1989.
-The Image Myth. Imaginaria Gallery, Antigua Guatemala, 1989.
-Three Contemporary Photographers from Guatemala. Traveling exhibition, Alabama, USA., 1988.
-Profile´88, Guatemalan Art. La Villa Cultural Center, Madrid, 1988.
-Tricono. Ixchel Museum, Guatemala, 1986.


Recent publications:

Individual:

-So that all shall know / Para que todos lo sepan, Fotografía de Daniel Hernández Salazar. University of Texas Press. Austin, Texas. USA. Mayo 2007. http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exmalsot.html
-Guatemala Memory of an Angel: Work in progress of Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Kage Shobo. Tokio, Japan, 2005.
-100 Postcards, Orfeo Editons, Guatemala, 1994 -2006.

Group:

-Naked Men, Now. David Leddick. Rizzoli, New York, 2001.
-Naked Men, Too. David Leddick. Rizzoli, New York, 2000.
-Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America. Woodrow Wilson Center & Standford Univ. Press. Washington,1999.
-The Politics of Civil Society Building. International Books & Transnational Institute. Amsterdam, 1999.
-Visions of Angels. Smithmark Publications,New York, 1998.
-Guatemala Nunca Más. Archibishop's Human Rights Bureau, Guatemala, 1998.
-The Male Nude. David Leddick. Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1998.
-Eros. Stewart, Tabory & Chang, Inc., New York, 1996.
-Maya Masterpieces. G&T Foundation, Guatemala, 1996.

Group (Cont):

-Postcards. Orfeo Editions, Guatemala, 1993-9.
-Mexican Art in the World. Mexico D. F., Mexico, 1994.
-Critical Approximation to Present Latin-American Photography. Huelva, Spain, 1991.
-America Patria Grande magazine, Quito, Ecuador, 1990.


FLMS

-Haunted land. A voyage into the lives of artist and human rights activist Daniel Hernández-Salazar and Mateo Pablo, survivor of a massacre occurred during Guatemala´s recent civil war. Directed by Mary Ellen Davis. Montreal, Canada. 2001.


Education


-Professional Black & White laboratory, Light & shadow atelier, Guatemala.
-Workshop with photographer Arnold Newman, International Center of Photography New York, USA.
-Architectural Photography Workshop, International Center of Photography, New York.
-Commercial Photography Workshop, Winona School of Professional Photo, Indiana, USA.



Work


-Photographer for The Associated Press (AP), 1987-1992.
-Photographer for REUTERS, 1986.
-Photographer for Agence France Presse (AFP), 1984.


OTHER ACTIVITIES

-Art and Social Change in Post War Guatemala. Lecture on the use of public space as instrument to have incidence on Society to preserve Historic Memory in post war landscapes. Study Abroad program for University of Arizona CIRMA. Antigua Guatemala. 2005, 2006, 2007.

-Design, planning and construction of personal home and atelier in Guatemala City Historic Center. 2005-2006.

-To live in cities. Conversatory. Spanish Cultural Center. Guatemala, 2006.

-President of the Casa Central Neighborhood Committee. Historic Center. Guatemala City. 2004-2006.

-Images from Guatemala 1850-2005. Conversatory on photography history in Guatemala. Spanish Cooperation Agency. -

Violence, Memory, and Art in Postwar Guatemala. A Dialogue with Daniel Hernández-Salazar. Film screening, Exhibit and talks in the University of Texas at Austin. Sponsored by The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Rockefeller Postdoctoral Program in Race, Rights, and Resources, the Center for Mexican American Studies, the Center for Latin American Social Policy, College of Liberal Arts, and the John T. Jones, Jr. Centenial Professorship of Comunication. Universidad de Texas en Austin. USA 2003.

-General Coordinator for Cien campanas para la paz (100 bells for Peace), musical intervention in public spaces by Spanish Composer Llorenç Barber. To celebrate the first aniversary of the Peace Accords signature in Guatemala. Organized for the the Historic Center Conceal of Guatemala City, Guatemala's Town Hall and the Guatemala's Peace Secratariat December 1996.

-Coordinator of the International Organ Festivals. Metropolitan Cathedral. Guatemala, 1985, 1987 y 1988.

-Member of Organon. Committee for the preservation of the organ of the Metropolitan Cathedral.

-Member of the Historic Center Friends Association. Guatemala. 2002-2003.

-Founding member of the Friends of Railroad Foundation. Guatemala. 2003.