My name is Hero Duenyas, I’m a multidisciplinary artist who’s practice spans sculpture, visual art, digital image, photography, and more recently, costume and wearable art. I am interested in creating work that can be experienced rather than simply observed, moving beyond passive viewing into active engagement, embodiment, and inhabitation. 

Across painting, sculpture, photography, self-portraiture, makeup, and clothing, certain themes remain central to my practice. The mediums I use ebb and flow towards a constant vision that explores identity, visceral emotion, and transformation. I’m heavily influenced by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Greer Lankton, and Nadia Lee Cohen, who all share a thread of bodily expression and transformation.

I have been specifically drawn to wearable art and costuming recently because they require active participation. Clothing is fundamentally specific to an individual and I am interested in how a piece can 

carry an artistic vision while simultaneously being recontextualized by its wearer. This relationship excites me because it feels like a secret collaboration between artist and audience. To me, the gallery can frame artwork as distant or fixed, whereas clothing feels like an engaged and symbiotic relationship in which the artist and the wearer remain in conversation, perhaps without ever speaking.