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Nested Observer, Neue Welt, Nashville, Tennessee, 2026

Duo exhibition by Raza Kazmi and Kevin Hernández Rosa, curated by Mauro Barreto

Kevin Hernández Rosa Untitled, 2026 air mattress, bed sheets, pillow, pillow cover, bed frame, cotton shirting, twine, Styrofoam, news paper clipping of a published essay written by Kevin Hernández in 2005 titled “Why I want to go to college” 25 x 77 x 42 in.

Kevin Hernández Rosa journal, white cotton gloves, plinth, 2025-2026

with excerpt scanned pages # 37-55 of 80 in total

Link to download full scanned PDF

Kevin Hernández Rosa The Reptile, 2026 rusted welded steel, pencil on paper, vessel 32 x 14 x 14 in.

Raza Kazmi Ullage (film still), 2026 HD video & sound TRT: 05:34

* Raza Kazmi cynosure (film still), 2026 HD video TRT: 03:46

Untitled Custom 3D crystal made from a pdf created by the Instagram account @gta860, glass side tables 2025

As part of the group exhibition “nausea in my hands” curated by Mara Hassan, PRP Agency, Dallas, Texas, 2026

VAULT | KAJE

Solo exhibition fearing artworks by Kellen Grissom, Catherine Telford Keogh, Nyoka.now, Arien Wilkerson, and Marisa Williamson

Oct 25 - Nov 30 2025, curated by Kate Levant & Elizaveta Shneyderman

Flier

Kevin Hernández Rosa

Untitled, 2025

Custom 3D crystal made from a pdf created by the Instagram account @gta860, found entertainment system

original document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/105AwCT_qb3HLthho6IYJdARbYWTpG1W5/view

39 x 49 x 14.5 in

Kevin Hernández Rosa

Untitled, 2025

Mimicry of whiteboard created by YouTuber @caseyzander in his video titled “Women consider all forms of day to day communication as the man being desperate for a relationship!”, resin, pigment, deckscrews

48 x 10 x 72 in

Kevin Hernández Rosa

20 minute figure study, 2014

graphite on paper in float frame

18 x 24 in

Kevin Hernández Rosa

The Computational Boundary of a “Luigi”: Developmental Bioelectricity Drives Multicellularity and Scale-Free Cognition

Crayon drawings on printer paper based on the style of Luigi from Mario Brothers and power points by biologist Michael Levin, Ph.D., hemp, wooden clothes pins, nails

dimensions variable

2025

Catherine Telford Keogh

Benthic Archive No. 1.5, 2025

Hermetically sealed scientifically blown glass ampoules, pasteurized sediment* from Gowanus Canal, DSTVITOlux-f Thermoplastic, UV-DTF transfer, custom stainless steel tray

45 x 32.5 x 5.75 in

*(Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Mercury (Hg), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cu), Cadmium (Cd), Chromium (Cr), Nickel (Ni), Cobalt (Co), Arsenic (As), Vanadium (V), Aluminum (Al), Iron (Fe), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Coal Tar Wastes, Benzene, Toluene, Phenols, Petroleum Products, Petrochemicals, Raw Sewage, Fecal Coliforms, 455 identified microbial species (heat-treated at 72°C), 8 classes of antibiotic resistance markers, antimicrobial resistance markers, paint factory residues, ink manufacturing waste, soap production byproducts, sulfur processing chemicals, chemical fertilizers, coal processing waste from 22 plants, cement works dust, machine shop metal shavings, shipbuilding materials, incinerator ash, tannery chemicals, paper mill effluent, flour mill waste, oil refinery byproducts, lumber yard runoff, stone and coal yard deposits, manufactured gas plant waste from Fulton MGP Site, Citizens Gas Works MGP (Public Place), Metropolitan Gas Light Company MGP, Brooklyn Union Gas Co. (now National Grid New York), Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc., Hess Corp., Honeywell International Inc., The Brooklyn Improvement Co., City of New York, US Navy, US Department of Defense, American Sugar Refining Company (Domino® Sugar), Verizon® Communications, KeySpan (acquired by National Grid), ExxonMobil®, American Can Company, Chesebrough Manufacturing Company (Vaseline®), Kentile® Floors Inc., Burns Brothers, Hauck Mfg, National Grid, The Lightstone Group, MTA, Various US Military Branches, Gemini Arts Initiative, Black Mayonnaise consistency sediment, carcinogenic substances, Biohazard Level 2 materials)

Kellen Grissom

Mr. Punctuality, 2025

Steel

7 x 32 x 7 in

Kellen Grissom

Untitled, 2025

discount camera

3.5 x 9.5 x 6.5 in

Marisa Williamson, Arien Wilkerson, Kevin Hernández Rosa

Vault | Handbook

2017 - 2025

pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VoUXz8EWS61fjqP9Ho3lNypP6ifT7apF/view

Nyoka.now

Core Concepts of Living Work, 2025

8.5 x 5.5 inch saddle stitched zine

Kevin Hernández Rosa

Roast, 2025

Four vinyl banners

48 x 72 in

Kevin Hernández Rosa

Spit, 2025

steel, children's desks

25.5 x 70 x 25 in

Arien Wilkerson

In memoriam, 2025

Three insignia televisions, SD video, color, no sound, custom powder coated steel and aluminum frame

60 x 41 x 28.5, minutes, seconds

bb, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2025. Solo exhibition curated by Daniel Hunt.

Flier

Installation shots

Three Cup Bouquet, 2025

galvanized steel pipe, concrete, red solo cups, maroon fabric, twine, marker, pearl Momigami paper, plastic

5 x 25 x 13 in.

Believe, 2025

torn old couch skirt pieces, Linnea’s hair, seashells, insulating foam sealant, push pins, artist’s tape, steel, acrylic

22 x 3 x 2 in.

Pheromones, 2025

Linnea’s shirt, aerosol shield acrylic intubation box, Dohm® Classic Sound Machine

15 x 19 x 19 in.

Blackbook (open to the page with a piece dedicated to Crystal), 2009

my first blackbook, galvanized steel cornice hook

16.5 x 11.25 x 1.5 in.

In Practice: Kevin Hernández Rosa, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY. June 19- July 28, 2025. Curated by Kyle Dancewicz and Jovanna Venegas

#1 flier

#2-5 Installation views, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Photo: Charles Benton

#6-8 Untitled, 2025

Acorns, pine, ash (600 carved cylinder pins, barrels, and hammers after Samuel Colt’s wooden revolver model parts, 1830-31, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut)

Dimensions variable

installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Photo: Charles Benton

#9, 10 Birth, 2025 (detail)

Synthetic kidney stone on cylindrical steel base

36 ¼ × 3 ½ × 3 ½ inches

installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Photo: Charles Benton

#11-13 John Massey Rhind

Colt coat of arms from the Samuel Colt Monument, Colt Park, Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated 1906. Stolen and cut into pieces (some missing) by Rafael Sanchez, 2016; recovered as evidence of criminal mischief by Officer G. Perez, Hartford Police Department, 2016

Bronze

Dimensions variable

City of Hartford, Connecticut

installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Photo: Charles Benton

#14-17 Heated Blanket featuring William “ASKO 187” Lopez, 2025

Live-streamed single-channel 4K video

36:23 minutes

Cinematographer: Raza Kazmi

Link to livestream

installation view, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Photo: Charles Benton

#18-24 Heated Blanket featuring William “ASKO 187” Lopez, 2025 (video stills)

Live-streamed single-channel 4K video

36:23 minutes

Cinematographer: Raza Kazmi

Flier (photographed and printed by Adrian Martinez Chavez) 2024 silver gelatin print

Turning 200, 2024 seashells, insulating foam sealant

1,2,3,4,5, 2024 used water bottles, H2O, acrylic paint, jean, canvas, cotton shirting, twine

Host (w/ Adrian Martinez Chavez), 2024 cowhide, bird's nest, gelatin silver prints, magnets, Equate Creamy Milk Chocolate Meal Replacement Shake, cotton shirting, twine

Press. Release., 2024 synthetic kidney stones (calcium oxalate), papi’s Windows 1.0 notes, 14k gold rope chain

As part of the duo exhibition with Adrian Martinez Chavez “6 Pack Pansy” curated by Daniel Polonsky, Rogue Car Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Reading “I am Numberz 4 Wustr” at the Firehouse, Worcester, MA, September 7th.

#Youtube

Reading "Cellys" and "Lie Flat in Munich" at Grey Matter, New Haven, CT, August 1st.

Reading "faded need" and "Elegy for an Exclusionary Zone 2.0" at Sparkle Taffy, Hamden, CT June 20th

#Youtube

Based Kevin (reassurance recording)

mono audio recording, directional speaker, gift from Mike, brass wire, particle board wall decoration, loofah hanging strings, plastic, two tiny bent joints inside two bent glass vials

15 minutes 8 seconds; on repeat

dimensions variable 2024

Link to Audio

Solo presentation ‘Based Kevin’ at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT. Curated by Aimée Burg.

During the summer of 2022, while undergoing treatment as an inpatient at the Institute of Living, Hernandez Rosa read "What You Practice is What You Have" by Zen awareness practitioner Cheri Huber. The book’s primary “practice tool” is a recording of “reassurances”, defined as “True statements, made by one’s center… meant to solidify the relationship between the human being (oneself) and the wise, compassionate awareness (the centered self)”. The book goes on to assign “In your own voice, make a recording that reminds you of everything you need to remember so that you can make the choices you know you need to make, from center, to have the life you know is possible for you.”

“Although I found solace in the teachings of Huber's book during my recovery, I hesitated to create my own reassurance recording. I grappled with the notion that the ego-self and conditioned mind, as discussed in the book, might render statements centered around "I" or self-improvement debased. This artwork serves as my attempt at composing reassurances, albeit straying from the book's original purpose as a practice tool for a self and instead opting to share words apt for love in its pure form, and boundless freedom.” -Kevin Hernandez Rosa

Photo documentation by Adrian Martinez Chavez.

I am going to hit you with this flail

shopping cart, epoxy, chain, retriever

22" X 21" X 97"

2022

Taper burn marks on my landlord's basement shelf

burned wooden shelf

28" X 63" X 24"

2023

As part of the group exhibition “The First Show” curated by Brittni Ann Harvey & Harry Gould Harvey IV, FRMOCA, Fall River, MA

Poles, D. D. D. D., New York, NY, 2023. Solo exhibition curated by Damien Ding.

Flier

Installation shots

Papi, ink and graphite on paper, magnets, 11 x 14"

Ofrenda, two tiny bent joints inside two bent glass vials, beaded chains, paper, pencil, marker, packing tape, used plastic bottles, fabric, too-small rejected dog casket, wooden rocking cradle, 29 x 24 x 19"

Nest, two journals completed as an in-patient at WS3, Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies box, U.S. currency confetti, plastic, weed box, coffee stirrer, microwave metal casing, hardware, 10 x 22 x 12"

Untitled, chest of drawers mirror, waiting room chair arm cushion, activated carbon dog training pad, 14k gold chain, plastic, ink, automatic air freshener fragment, acrylic paint, yellow glass straw, plastic lid, hardware, 39 x 42 x 13"

Dipdick, epoxy, polyester rope, cardboard, 14 x 20 x 5"

Untitled, laser-printed QR code that links to a .jpeg, packing tape, 4 x 4"

Oscar “OZIE OZ 194” Diaz, The Ego of a Pearl, graphite, blue pen ink, marker, spray paint, stickers, paper, push pins , 40 x 37 inches

THATNIGHTINEVEREVENGLANCEDATIT’SFACEA-SIGAVEITHEADCAUSEITHOUGHTITWOULDHITME, my bedframe, 38 x 10 x 2"

Solace, rocks in sink, 3 x 4 x 3"

D. D. D. D. is pleased to present Poles, a solo exhibition by Kevin Hernández Rosa, featuring an artwork by their brother Oscar “OZIE OZ 194” Diaz.

To look at ‘em looking away.

Poles emerged from a series of fragmented, nebulous, object-based experiments that were created by Hernández Rosa as a means of working through their feelings on a series of unrelated events; namely, the passing of their childhood pet, being diagnosed with other-specified personality disorder, being exposed to Michael Levin’s work on multiscale cognitive competency on their journey towards believing in Love, having anonymous sex with a person whose face they never perceived, being mesmerized by found images of multiple streams of urine coalescing, exclusively listening to Thebe Kgositsile’s thinnest vocal performance for a year straight, stealing the armrest cushion from a waiting room chair from a local university, and finding impalement hazards everywhere they look in their hometown.

Last time (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED), (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED), all their household items seemed to emanate evil. They cited this to themself as being (OMITTED) for (OMITTED) (OMITTED) and (OMITTED) (OMITTED). Oh, and there was the (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED) as well. One thing they did notice (OMITTED) (OMITTED) (OMITTED), they laughed at everything internal and external that arose, and they were desperately trying to stop their face from expressing this joy so as to avoid hailing anyone’s attention. It’s like they had some deep-rooted fear (or guilt?) of being seen.

Belief is synonymous with creation. The only worldview Hernández Rosa can confidently stand on is that their art is simply art—a continuation of the ancient technology established by Neanderthals, creating limitless yet differentiated potential meaning through actualized forms and concepts, harmonized in the stimulation of the senses.

To share with others the expanding brainstorm’s most naked state.

3 Cup Scam fabric, Darkrai Pokémon card covered in soot salvaged from a house fire 2023

APARTMENT VIDEO 15 (w/ subtitles) single channel SD video, 16:9, color, sound, looped 3 minutes, 27 seconds 2020

APARTMENT VIDEO 1 single channel SD video, 16:9, color, sound, looped 5 minutes, 54 seconds 2020

Flail official Macbook Pro charger, bootleg Macbook Pro charger, fishing hooks 2021

As part of the group exhibition “The Trick Behind the Multiple Trick Ponies” curated by Inés Arango-Guinque, MAYFIELD, Forest Park, IL

Photo documentation by Fernando Saldivia.

My contribution to "HAWK"

B&W softcover perfect-bound publication released through snffbx.com produced by Jim Whitten.

Email me for a free PDF of my section only.

As part of the group exhibition "Abundance, Sludge, or the Accrual of Material" curated by Daniel Griffin Hunt, Hunt Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, CA, 2023

Apples listening to my rant on A.I. titled “Unmodellable Future a.k.a. I want to talk to apples”

velvet, wood, nine apples, nine found aux splitters, ten found apple headphones, packing tape, “a pre-recorded lecture written and recited by Kevin Hernádez Rosa about the future of Art and Artificial Intelligence” playing on loop on a free Obama tablet, charger dimensions variable The transcription and reflection of “Unmodellable Future a.k.a. I want to talk to apples” can be found here

Untitled Logitech wireless gamepad F710, ice picks 4” X 6” X 9.5”

Creme Piesfishing pole, Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies box 55” X 4” X 4.5”

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