Orlando Hernández (San Antonio de los Baños, 1953). Historian, art critic, and poet. From 1978 to 1989, he worked as a researcher at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba. He is curator and art adviser for The von Christierson Collection in London, specializing in contemporary Afro-Cuban art. Since the 1980s he has published essays and article on art in catalogs, magazines, and books in Cuba and other countries.