"Born in San José (Costa Rica), Herrero's canvas work and urban interventions are organically coherent, engendering a fantasy of the site/non-site device (Robert Smithson) from a different point of view. The dilemma is familiar: how to reimagine the studio in the contemporary jungle, in dialogue with the brutalism of concrete buildings, pollution, and traffic? What message can a painter communicate to a metropolis without becoming diluted in the bowels of its unsustainable chaos?" (Lisette Lagnado, 2017).
Recent solo exhibitions include: Language Melody, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (2017); DesordenAlfabético, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2015); Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2014); Letras y Volúmenes, Proyectos Monclova, México City (2014); El espacio se construye, Diablo Rosso, Panamá City (2013); La terraza de Hanzel y Gretel, La casa encendida, Madrid (2013); Aloha Amigo, 21st Century Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2012); Catarata, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City (2011); Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2008) and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2008).
Recent group exhibitions include: Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today - site-specific installation, South London Gallery, London (2016); United States of Latin America, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2015); Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); P33 Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM-SP Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo (2013); Concepción41, Antigua, Guatemala (2013); Una posibilidad de escape, EACC de Castellón, Spain (2013); Para/site, Hong Kong (2011) and Art Parcours, Basel (2011).
His work is part of institutional collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, USA; Tate Collection, England; Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, USA; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Museo Reina Sofía, Spain; MAM-SP Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, USA.