 Hernández-Díez also had a major retrospective exhibition that travelled to a number of museums including the New Museum in New York City, SITE Santa Fe and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida from 2002 to 2003.Hernández-Díez is part of a new generation of Venezuelan artists who emerged in the late 1980s.He uses "street" materials such as skateboards, sneakers, record players and other audio equipment and bicycles in order to develop a personal iconography centered on familiar, often domestic, objects.