(b. 1987, USA) is a Dominican American conceptual artist born and raised in New York City, Washington Heights/Inwood, and currently based in the South Bronx. Hierro’s practice, which includes sculpture, textile art, digital media and installation, confronts twenty-first–century capitalism through an intersectional lens.
Hierro earned a BFA from SUNY Purchase (2010) and an MFA from Yale School of Art (2013). Her larger-than-life soft sculptures, created using textile elements, draw inspiration from the traditional practice of sewing she observed from the women in her family. Hierro’s choices manifest her own multidimensional experience as a Dominican American New Yorker. Lifting visual matter from the streets and media, she demonstrates how objects can carry cultural knowledge, weaving subjective narratives that explore the elasticity of identity, heritage, opportunity, and power.
Appropriating imagery that spans commerce and art history, Hierro’s Pop Art-inflected work examines consumer habits and the ways they shape cultural identity. Her choice of objects and brands is deliberate, reflecting shared cultural experiences in a globalized world defined by migration, capitalism, and overconsumption. By confronting us to what draws us all together, her work offers both a critical and affectionate commentary of contemporary life.
Hierro's work has been exhibited at venues including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles), Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York), Latchkey Projects (New York), Primary Projects (Miami), Sean Horton Presents (Dallas), and Casa Quien in the Dominican Republic. Her works are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, El Museo del Barrio in New York City, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the JP Morgan & Chase Collection, the Progressive Art Collection and the Rennie collection in Vancouver, among others. Her work has recently joined the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
