Ester Hernandez (b.1944) grew up in California’s San Joaquin Valley in a Mexican and Yaqui farmworker family. She earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1976, where she developed an interest in printmaking and became involved in the Chicano civil rights movement. While still a student, she joined Las Mujeres Muralistas, a pioneering collective of Bay Area Latina muralists. Through prints, pastels and installations, Hernandez centers Latina and Native women while addressing farmworker rights, environmental justice, feminism, spirituality and LGBTQ+ identity. She frequently combines familiar imagery with humor and irony to make complex political issues immediately accessible. Her iconic screenprint Sun Mad transforms the cheerful Sun-Maid raisin logo into a skeletal figure, exposing the dangers pesticides pose to farmworkers, consumers and the environment. Later variations have allowed Hernandez to revisit changing issues of labor, immigration and environmental justice. Hernandez’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in major collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Library of Congress and Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.