Hermann Schmidlin was born in 1965 in Valparaiso, Chile.
Along with his Chilean, Swiss, and Mapuche family roots, he defines himself as a mixed-race artist. With an academic background in art, his works follow a personal direction, developing his own material language and working with artistic hybrids such as photography-painting, photography-etching on tar and aluminum, photography-video, thermogravure, and photomontage.
His work has been featured in international biennials in Japan, France, and Chile and is included in collections such as the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, the Kochi Paper Museum in Japan, the Museum of Visual Arts of Chile, the International Museum of Graphic Arts in Chillán, Chile, and the Arte Vivo Foundation in Colombia. He currently resides in Switzerland and is a member of the Latin America-Africa XXI Century Foundation, between Chile and the Kingdom of Morocco, and representative in Latin America of the Lucien Simón Association of Paris.
