Herminio Feliciano Peña Aguilera (b. Silao, April 25, 1915 – Mexico City, May 16, 1982) was a Mexican painter and engraver.
The son of a carpenter and a schoolteacher, Peña was born in Silao, Guanajuato but moved with his family to the Tlalpan borough of Mexico City in 1926.
[1] Early in his career he moved to Xalapa, Veracruz and founded a painting school with Francisco Gutierrez and José Chávez Morado.
[1][2] Other notable exhibitions include a work called “Autorretrato” in 1942 at the Galeria Espira, which first brought him widespread attention.
[1][2] Peña participated in the first Interamerican Painting and Engraving biennial in 1958 and in the Retrato mexicano contemporáneo in 1961, both at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
One of his influences was José María Velasco, with a similar perspective painting valleys, gulleys, groves and observations points.
Raquel Tibol stated, "Feliciano Peña did not want to possess nature but rather to understand it in a dimension that would be apprehensible both physically and mentally.