Enio Hernandez was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and received his B.F.A. in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. His work expands on the cultural vernacular of the Chicano experience and explores themes of race, language, sexuality, and identity. Enio’s ongoing photographic series documents the urban landscape across various metropolitan cities throughout the United States and Latin America. Inspired by L.A.’s urban sprawl and its Latinx population, he is interested in capturing the culture of these communities by exploring the intersection between the urban and the natural environments in daily life. His mixed media based projects are informed from both his experiences living in the working class community of East Los Angeles and as a Mexican-Guatemalan American gay man living in the United States. He creates abstract landscapes through a queer gaze, and layers elements of Latinx culture, surrealism, abstract, and neo-expressionism. Enio presents a visual language that transcends heteronormative binaries as well as western narratives in art.