Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, USA
Lives and works in Miami and Detroit, USA

Born in 1978 in Miami, Florida, USA
Lives and works in Miami and Detroit, USA
Hernan Bas’s expressionist and highly detailed figurative paintings are openly inspired by late-nineteenth-century decadent art and literature, as well as the concurrent symbolist and decorative style of the French group Les Nabis. While they are aesthetically grounded in the iconography of the male androgynous dandy, the young protagonists of his oneiric visions are usually portrayed alone or in small groups within descriptions of pure flânerie. Whether confined in the intimacy of a genre scene or lost in the vertigo of a dense, lush, romantic-like landscape, they inhabit a fantasized world of implicit eroticism and ambiguous sensuality. Always appearing as if suspended in time, between adolescence and adulthood, they embody the fragile in-between state that the artist refers to as “fag limbo.” With a flamboyant palette and a refined touch, Hernan Bas overall masterly revisits and reinterprets all the categories of classical painting from a seemingly melancholic yet often humorous and witty, homoerotic perspective.
1996 New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2018
- A Brief Intermission, Centro De Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain (forthcoming)
- Hernan Bas: The Paper Crown Prince and Other Works, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
- Insects from Abroad, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2017
- Florida Living, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
- Cambridge Living, Victoria Miro, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
- Bloomsbury Revisited, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
- A Tropical Depression, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Bright Young Things, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
2015
- Fruits and Flowers, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2014
- New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted. Hernan Bas and the Natural World: Selections from the Rubell Collection, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL
- Haunted Objcets, Marfa Book Company, Marfa, TX
- Case Studies, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
- Hernan Bas: Memphis Living, Victoria Miro, London, United Kingdom
2013
- TIME, Hernan Bas: a queer and curious cabinet, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
- Deep in the Dark of Texas, Peter Kilchman, Zurich, Switzerland
2012
- Thirty-six Unknown Poets, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- A brief suspension of disbelief, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Occult Contemporary, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US
- The other side, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany, cur. René Zechlin
2011
- Delicate Creatures from America, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
- Perennial Affairs, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Forest for the Trees, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, US
2010
- Considering Henry, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- The Hallucinations of Poets, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Hernan Bas: A Fairy’s Tale, PKM Gallery/Bartleby Bickle & Meursault, Seoul
2009
- In the land of make me believe, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice
- The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York
- Wonderland: Through the looking glass, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2008
- Ask the Sky, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
- The Unexplained, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2007
- Hernan Bas: works from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami,
- Evening Amusements, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York
- Saints and Secret Sects, Galleria IL Capricorno, Venice
- Saints and Secret Sects, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Mephistopheles at 17, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
2006
- The Great Barrier Wreath, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
- A Silent Dirge, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice
- Dandies, Pansies and Prudes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
2005
- Once Upon A Time…, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- In the Low Light, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2004
- Soap Operatic, The Moore Space, Miami
- As if a Phantom Carres’d me, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
- Sometimes with One I Love, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
- We May Even See the Wind Together, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
2003
- We May Even See the Wind Together, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2002
- First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- Love in Vein, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
- It’s Super Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
2001
- Hernan’s Merit & the Nouveau Sissies, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2000
- Slim Fast, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami
2017
- Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
- On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Alien Nations, Lehman College Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2016
- A Sum of it’s Parts, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
- Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL
- PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2015
- Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
- Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- Love: The First of the 7 Virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, N
2013
- Suddenness + Certainty, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
- Cinematic Visions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- Hernan Bas, Anne Chu, Klara Kristalova, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
- On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Les Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
2012
- I Followed You into the Water, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
- Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
2011
- The Cry, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain, cur. María Inés Rodriguez & Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
- Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, cur. Stacy Engman
2010
- In the company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc.,,Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005-2010, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York
- Five in Istanbul: A selection of artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik EVI, Istanbul
- Father, Curated by Diego Singh, Mendes Wood, Saso Paulo.
2009
- The Collectors, 53rd Venise Biennale, the Nordic and Danish Pavilions, Italy
- Wunderland, KadE, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
- SMALL, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
- Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Dilettantes, Dandies and Divas, Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL
2008
- Exhibitions 21: Selections from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
- 6th Busan Biennale, Korea
-The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber, Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin
- Miami Comes to the Hamptons, Snitzer - Arregui Project, East Hamptons, New York
- (i-murj:d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
-The Boys of Summer, The Fireplace Project, East Hamptons, New York
2007
- Titled/Untitled: a collaborative exhibition featuring work from the Devonshire collection & Rubell collection, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
- Intimacy, Contemporary Art After Nine Eleven, Triennale DI Milano, Milan
- Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
- Size Matters (Part 1, XS-recent small-scale paintings), Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2006
- Paraisos Artificiales, Pillar Parra & Romero Galeria De Arte, Madrid
- Breathing Time: Works from the Debra & Dennis Scholl collection Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans
- Girlpower and Boyhood, Talbot Rice Gallery (in conjuction with Kunsthallen Brandts), University of Edinburgh
- Panic Room: works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
- Figuring the Landscape, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
- Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Isreal
- Think Warm: Miami Draws for You, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
- Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
2005
- Recent Acquisitions, LA MOCA, Los Angeles
- Triumph of Painting – Part III, The Saatchi Gallery, London
- New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
- MoCA and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
- Little Odysseys, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
- Ten, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
- New Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
- Situational Prosthetics, (curated by Nate Lowman) New Langston Arts, San Francisco
2004
- Galleon and Other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London
- Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects, New York
- Miami Nice, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
- Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner, New York
- Heavenly Creatures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropec, Salzburg
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- The Drawing Show, The Green Barn, Sagaponack
- Painting 2004, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
- Obituary, Placemaker, Miami
- Lock Stock and Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA, traveling to Arthouse, Austin, TX, Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2003
- Women Beware Women, (curated by David Rimanelli) Deitch Projects, New York
- Summer Romance, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
- Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, traveled to Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo
- Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MoCA, North Miami
- Made in Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- New Art, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
- American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
2002
- Drawing Conclusions, (curated by Nina Arias) Buena Vista Building, Miami
- In Place of Revolution, The Great Hall, Cooper Union, New York
- AOP002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Friends and Family, Lombard-Fried Fine Art, New York
- Dangerous Beauty, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York
- Champion, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
- Fast Forward Projects, the Nash Hotel Art Fair, Miami
- Humid, (curated by Dominic Molon), Moore Space, Miami
- Selections from the Permanent Collection, MoCA, North Miami
2000
- Making art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality (curated by Bonnie Clearwater) Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
- Robot, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
- Ob-la-di-Ob-la-da, (curated by Gean Moreno) Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach
- Young Miami, Wooster Projects, New York
-The Home Show, 890 NE 90th Street, Miami
- Departing Perspectives, Espirito Santo Building, Miami
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Saatchi Collection, London, GB
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, FR
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Samuso: Space for Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
- Williams College, Williamstown, MA
2002
- Rerna Hort Foundation Grant, New York, NY
2001
- Deans Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
1999
- Mc Cullogh Award for Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Matching Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2018 年 01 月 18 日 - 2018 年 03 月 11 日
東京
Piramide Building, 1F, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan
2015 年 10 月 22 日 - 2015 年 12 月 19 日
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76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France
2012 年 09 月 08 日 - 2012 年 10 月 27 日
巴黎
76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France
2010 年 09 月 11 日 - 2010 年 10 月 30 日
巴黎
76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France
2010 年 01 月 09 日 - 2010 年 03 月 13 日
巴黎
76 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris France
2004 年 11 月 13 日 - 2004 年 12 月 23 日
巴黎
20 rue Louise Weiss 75003 Paris
策展人 George Lindemann