Oscar Fernando Bernal (born July 27, 1945) was a Mexican painter from the border city of Nogales, in the state of Sonora Mexico. Bernal's mother, Angela Ley was a schoolteacher who encouraged Bernal and his two sisters to develop an array of cultural interests at an early age.

Moreover, Bernal's mother was the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman from the state's capital of Hermosillo and one of the casualties in the brutal persecution against the Chinese community, which swept Sonora and other northern Mexican states during the first two decades of the 20th Century. His father worked as a customs officer and often had to relocate his family to various cities across the Sonora-Arizona border. A childhood spent in different citi...