[1][2] He is considered one of the key figures in abstract painting in the country, and exhibited his work internationally.
He studied fine art at the National University of Colombia; and at the Academy of Painting in Santiago de Chile.
[2] Hernández Gómez was part of the art groups Taller 9, and Nueva Generación.
In 1967, he received first prize at the XIII National Salon with his work 'flores en blanco y rojo'.
[8] In 2020, his work was part of the group exhibition Expanding Abstraction: Pushing the Boundaries of Painting in the Americas, at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.