Alana Hernandez is Senior Curator at the ASU Art Museum, where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. In her curatorial practice, Hernandez co-creates and develops relational projects and exhibitions that amplify intersectional and multifaceted interpretations of Latinx art. Most recently, she curated José Villalobos: Rough Rider and Muddy Terrains: Mariana Ramos Ortiz + Estephania González at the ASU Art Museum. Hernandez has organized exhibitions and artist projects with Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Sam Frésquez, Luis Rivera Jimenez, Alejandro Macias, and Sarah Zapata, among others. She is currently at work on a major retrospective of Carmen Lomas Garza.
Previously, Hernandez served as Executive Director & Curator at CALA Alliance from 2021–2023. From 2019–2021, she was Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego where she organized the museum's first collection handbook, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: Handbook of the Collection (2021). From 2017–2019, she worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where she was part of the curatorial teams for the much-lauded exhibitions Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945 and Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Her writing has appeared in several exhibition catalogues and online journals. Hernandez received her M.A. from CUNY Hunter College, where she specialized in Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art.