Anaida Hernández (born 1954) is a Puerto Rican sculptor, painter, installation artist, muralist, documentary director, and businesswoman.
[1] She obtained a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez campus in 1974 and then attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico's Academy of San Carlos with Gilberto Aceves Navarro, graduating in 1977 with a master's degree in engraving.
[2] In 1979, she began work at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico as an art teacher on the San Germán campus and then for the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez from 1980 to 1982, where she spearheaded a researched project into the manufacture of paper with seaweed.
[3] In her work as an artist, she has used the female body to explore erotic themes, power and gender relations, immigration, and domestic violence.
Of the project Hernández wrote "the strength and spirit of these murdered women has been carried to all corners of the world with the hope that violence, in any of its manifestations, will be eradicated from the face of the earth.