Hernan Bas was born on 1978 and is an artist based in Miami, Florida.
27 Facts About Hernan Bas
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Hernan Bas graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami.
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Over time, Hernan Bas says, these characters have grown in his paintings and taken on different roles.
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Hernan Bas is gay and queerness often influences his work in the form of waifs and other young men, typically recurrent characters in his work.
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Hernan Bas owns a building in Detroit that was renovated by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, the couple behind Detroit electronic music act Adult.
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Hernan Bas was born in 1978, in Miami, Florida and moved upstate to a small town as a young boy.
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Hernan Bas has described growing up in the town as "kind of like living in the 'X-Files," and has credited it with his interest in the paranormal.
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Hernan Bas began painting at around three or four years old.
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Hernan Bas attended the art magnet program in the Miami public school system.
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Hernan Bas said that through the program he effectively began attending art school in seventh grade and by the time he graduated from New World in 1996, he was doing four hours of art every day.
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Hernan Bas has built himself a dark room in the basement of his studio to continue experimenting with photography.
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In 2004, Hernan Bas' artwork was displayed at the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
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One year later, in 2005, Hernan Bas participated in two more group exhibits, The Triumph of Painting: Part III, at the Saatchi Gallery in London, England and in New Worlds - New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, at Schirn Kuntshalle, in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Also in 2005, Hernan Bas earned a fellowship to Giverny, France, where he got to paint on Claude Monet's estate.
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In 2007, Hernan Bas had a major presentation at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, which travelled to the Brooklyn Art Museum in 2008.
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In 2010, Hernan Bas moved his studio from Miami to Detroit, stating he enjoyed the "weirdness" of the city.
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In 2012, Hernan Bas had shows in New York, at the Lehman Maupin Gallery, and in Paris, at Galerie Perrotin, and South Korea.
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Hernan Bas' artwork is part of the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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Hernan Bas has described some of his influences as the lives of saints and the paranormal.
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Hernan Bas has cited Oscar Wilde and Charles Baudelaire as inspirations, as well as Joris-Karl Huysman.
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Hernan Bas has indicated that most of his inspiration comes from the past and he does not pay attention to much contemporary work.
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Hernan Bas found inspiration in the Felix Gonzalez-Torres candy piles in his early work with slim fast, allowing his viewers to take a cup of slim fast with them.
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Hernan Bas says that sometimes his friends create better remixes than the original song, his ultimate goal is to do the same with his paintings, "sampling" the artists who inspired him until they are unrecognizable as the original artist, becoming his own work instead.
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Hernan Bas' homosexuality has been an influence specifically in works like his series Bloodwerk, Bright Young Things, and Supernatural.
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In Bright Young Things, Hernan Bas indicated that he was trying to rewrite history to bring queerness to light in a time when it was not widely exposed, in the case of his series, the 1920s.
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Hernan Bas says this connection can be seen in his painting, the primordial soup theory.
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Hernan Bas says he connects homosexuality with the paranormal because he connects the "insane stuff" people perceive about homosexuality to be similar to how people view the paranormal.