Mentor: Artist Oscar Magnan

Will Hernandez studied at  Saint Peter ‘s College in Jersey City, New Jersey

He studied art under the artist Oscar Magnan.  "I am deeply honored to have been discovered by Oscar Magnan and taken under his tutelage.  Magnan made an oil portrait of me as Christ. 

Fr. Oscar Magnan  (1929-2024) worked as a restorer of Old Master paintings. He participated in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel restoration project in 1985. His paintings have been featured in several one-man shows in North America and Europe, and he is the winner of awards from the Canada Council, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Hereward Lester Cooke Foundation. His work is represented in several collections, including those of the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris

This painting currently hangs in a monastery in the Bronx, New York, USA. This is also the location of Oscar Magnan’s last resting place.