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Niño Hernandez (b.Sept.25,1977) is a graduate of the Philippine Women’s University with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, with a major in painting. Niño is also an art teacher and a professional musician dividing his time as a guitarist, percussionist, and flutist, and also happens to be a bamboo flute maker. He has performed with famous local artists in the Philippines such as Grace Nono, Pinikpikan, Joey Ayala, Julianne, Cynthia Alexander and Kitchie Nadal. He is currently part of the band Loquy.

Niño Hernandez' pieces are abstractions and, in some cases, exact representations of the surfaces of everyday objects such as leaks on walls, cracks on concrete, or corrosion on metal. His process involves laying out large expanses of color and highly tactile textures which he uses to blur the lines that separate these fields of color. The act of applying textures between the color fields is reminiscent of both painter Mark Rothko, and Action Painting, a term invented by art critic, Harold Rosenberg, in which the canvas becomes "...an arena in which to act."

As a child, Niño Hernandez grew up learning from Filipino artist and good friend, Gus Albor. His work is also influenced by American and European Abstract Expressionism, particularly the "color fields" of Mark Rothko, and the Tachisme works of Antoni Tapies.