1978 born Miami, lives and works in Miami.

Hernan Bas's fascination with historical painting and literature results in sensitive, dynamic works that are at once familiar and fantastic. Bas's paintings often depict beautiful, androgynous boys on the edge of adulthood in imagined scenarios referencing both classical and popular fiction. Decadent dandies, teenage waifs, languid loners and dashing adventurers are some of the characters that populate Bas's ongoing narrative. The dark, atmospheric paintings suggest a fluid, unpredictable time before dawn or at dusk, in which fantasies are played out through posturing or transformation. Further, the works resist a pinning down of time or place, with historical imagery layered with references to contemporary fashion and Bas's invented mythology. Suspenseful and infused with a sense of longing, the works explore implications of masculinity and queer culture through a dreamlike romanticism and wistful nostalgia.