Manuel Hernández Mompó began his studies at an early age at the School of Arts and Crafts in Valencia and continued at the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and the Netherlands. He was one of the most outstanding figures of the Spanish abstract generation of the fifties. He has participated in different fairs and contests, together with the realization of different individual and collective exhibitions at a national and international level.

He receives several painting prizes such as the UNESCO Prize, at the Venice Biennale and Painting in Madrid. Among the public collections, highlights the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, Cuenca and Valencia, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.