Ester Hernández (born 1944) is a California Bay Area Chicanx visual artist recognized for her prints and pastels focusing on farm worker rights, cultural, political, and Chicana feminist issues. Background Hernández is a Chicana of Yaqui and Mexican heritage. She was born in Dinuba, a small town in the central San Joaquin Valley of California. Her parents and family were farmworkers. In 1976, Hernández earned a Bachelor of Art degree at the University of California, Berkeley. Hernández's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally since 1973. She has received awards and commissions from organizations ranging from the California Arts Council to the National Endowment for the Arts. Hernandez's work is in the permanent collections of nearly twenty national and international museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC and the National Museum of Mexican Art. Hernández's archives are housed at the Stanford University Library's Department of Special Collections in Palo Alto, California. Art La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de Los Xicanos La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de Los Xicanos is a 1975 etching and aquatint. This print is in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Museum of Art Libertad Libertad is a 1976 etching. Sun Mad Sun Mad is a 1982 serigraph. In this serigraph, the artist turns the widely recognized red-bonneted female figure carrying a basket of grapes on the Sun-Maid raisin box into a skeleton to visually protest insecticides. This screen print is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles Museum of Art in California, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Describing this image, Hernandez states, "Slowly I began to realize how to transform the Sun Maid and unmask the truth behind the wholesome figures of agribusiness. Sun Mad evolved out of my anger and my fear of what would happen to my family, my community, and to myself." This image is featured in a 1989 installation titled Sun Mad that is dedicated to the artist's father who was a farm worker from the San Joaquin Valley, California. This installation is in the permanent collection of the National Mexican Museum of Art in Chicago. La Ofrenda La Ofrenda is a 1988 serigraph. This print is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC and the