Brianna L. Hernández is a Chicana artist, curator, educator, and death doula guided by socially engaged practices. In the studio, she creates multi-media installations focused on end-of-life care, grief, and mourning rituals based on lived experience, cultural research, and collaborations with peers including death education workshops. Brianna proudly serves as Director of Curation and founding Board Secretary of Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York. Additionally, she is the Board Treasurer at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Committee Member for the Gente Chicana/SOYmos Chicanos Arts Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and was a NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute Fellow with the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. For her curatorial project, Reclaiming Death, she was a recipient of Hyperallergic’s 2023–24 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators.
