About

My name is Ana Bertina Aguilera Hursh. I was born in Morelia, Mich., on July 1, 1986, where I spent part of my childhood. I grew up in the city of Querétaro where I later decided to study at CEDART and complete a degree in Visual Arts at the Autonomous University of Querétaro. I have recently become known as Ana B. Hursh, because I consider that part of my artistic training and education has been greatly influenced by my grandfather, Frank Herbert Hursh Jr. (Wichita Falls, 1929), who studied at Black Mountain College at side of people like Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. We both decided to study in Mexico City at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos, he around the 50s and me in 2011.

I currently work as a Business Entrepreneur in Querétaro, in 2023 I founded the “Ceramic Arts” workshop, I have carried out some projects as a Jewelry Designer and I have been a teacher in “Painting” and “Aesthetic Theory” at the Allende Institute, (Higher School of Arts, University of Guanajuato), in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.

I did the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts at ENAP/UNAM (now Faculty of Arts and Design FAD/UNAM), in Mexico City, 2011-13; My complementary studies include a Diploma titled “Reviewing Black Mountain College 7” at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the University of North Carolina – Asheville, in 2015; I also did an Online Diploma on “Cultural Representations of Sexuality”, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2014; and take the “Visual Culture and Gender I and II” Seminars Directed by Dr. Ryan Lozano, University Program of Gender Studies (PUEG/UNAM), Mexico City, 2012 -13. ANA BERTINA HURSH-she began her training at CEDART and completed a degree in visual arts at the Autonomous University of Querétaro, and a master’s degree at the Faculty of Arts and Design FAD / UNAM. She attended Reviewing Black Mountain College 7, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, University of North Carolina, Asheville; “Cultural Representations of Sexuality”, Autonomous University of Barcelona and the “Visual Culture and Gender I and II” Seminars, PUEG/UNAM. He obtained a Support for Artistic Production from the State of Querétaro Apoyarte 2015. His work has been presented at the Museum of the City of Querétaro, the UNAM Cultural Academic Center, Juriquilla Campus, Huixquilucan Museum, ENPEG, La Esmeralda, León Trotsky House Museum , Chopo University Museum and Regional Museum of Querétaro. She did artistic residencies at KH Messen, CAMAC Center d’ Art Marnay Art Center, DEPO2015 Kreativni Zóna and World of CO.

I received the scholarship for the Artistic Production Support Program of the State of Querétaro “Apoyarte” 2015, the works I made were exhibited at the Museum of the City of Querétaro in 2016. The pictorial work carried out during the Master’s degree at UNAM has been very important to mature my visual search, which complemented my research topics. These works cover the period 2011-13 in Mexico City.