by her marvelous color sense, which unmoors any illustrative limits of the genre." In 2018, Hernández was honored by the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago with the Sor Juana Legacy Award for "outstanding lifetime contributions to arts" and in August she will become the first American-born Latina to open a solo exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art. Also in 2018, her work "La Virgen del la Oscuridad" will become the featured image of the newly redesigned permanent exhibition "Becoming Los Angeles" of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County which re-opens in May. In 2019, her newest mural commission marks the return of her artistic presence to the historic district of downtown Los Angeles when her seven-story mural "La Nueva Reina de Los Angeles" is installed on the northwest residential tower of La Plaza Village at Broadway and the Hollywood Freeway. She is married to designer Morton Neikrug, and together they have one daughter. Awards and collections She received the Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 2021. She was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in 2013 from the City of Los Angeles. She served as an artist in residence in 2011 at the University of Chicago, in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Hernández's work is in various public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Crocker Art Museum, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, El Paso Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry, and others. Solo exhibitions 2021 – Judithe Hernández: Dreams on Paper, Monica King Contemporary, New York City, New York 2018 – A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, California 2011 – La Vida Sobre Papel, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, Illinois. 2010 – What Dreams May Come / Qué Sueños Quizás Vengan, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1983 – Judithe Hernández: Works on Paper, Cayman Gallery, New York City, New York 1980 – A Decade of a Woman's Work, Solart Gallery, San Diego, California 1979 – Virgen, Madre, Mujer: Imágenes de la Mujer Chicana, Casa de la Raza, Santa Barbara, California 1978 – Mi Arte, Mi Raza, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,