HERNAN BAS
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted. Hernan Bas and the Natural World: Selections from the Rubell Collection, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL
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
2012
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2011
The Forest for the Trees, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Galleria Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Peter Kilchman, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Hallucinations of Poets, Victoria Miro, London, England
Considering Henry, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2009
In the land of make me believe, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice,
Italy
The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular
expression, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Ask the Sky, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
The Unexplained, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2007
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Evening Amusements, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Saints and Secret Sects, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Saints and Secret Sects, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Mephistopheles at 17, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006
The Great Barrier Wreath, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
A Silent Dirge, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Dandies, Pansies and Prudes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Once Upon a Time…, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
In the Low Light, Victoria Miro, London, England
2004
Soap Operatic, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
As if a Phantom Carres’d me, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Sometimes with One I Love, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
We May Even See the Wind Together, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2003
We May Even See the Wind Together, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Love in Vein, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
It’s Super Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2001
Hernan’s Merit & the Nouveau Sissies, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Slim Fast, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, Curated by Goran Tomcic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
SEINFELD [ a show about nothing ], Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY Love: The First of the 7 Virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, NY Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
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, New York, NY
2011
The Cry, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC), Leon, Spain.
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005-2010, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc., Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
In the company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Lush Life 3: First Bird (A Few Butterflies), curated by Franklin Evans & Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
2009
The Collectors, The Nordic Pavilion and the Danish Pavilion
53rd Venice Biennale, Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Venice,
Italy
Wunderland, KadE, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
2008
Exhibitions 21: Selections from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
6th Busan Biennale, Korea
The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber, curated by Nicholas Weist, Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin
Miami Comes to the Hamptons, Snitzer – Arregui Project, East Hamptons, NY
( i- murj:d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
The Boys of Summer, The Fireplace Project, Curated by Shelly Fox Aarons and Edsel Williams, East Hamptons, NY
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, Italy
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, Pilar Parra & Romero Gallería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Think Warm, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Breathing Time: Works from the Debra & Dennis Scholl collection, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Girlpower and Boyhood, Talbot Rice Gallery (in conjuction with Kunsthallen Brandts), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Panic Room: works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2005
New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Triumph of Painting – Part III, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Little Odysseys, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Ten, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Ideal Wiorlds – New Romanticism in Contemporary Art Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Situational Prosthetics, Curated by Nate Lowman, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004
Galleon and Other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Miami Nice, Galerie Emmanuel Perotin, Paris, France
Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Heavenly Creatures, Galerie Thaddeus Ropec, Salzburg, Austria
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Drawing Show, The Green Barn, Sagaponack, NY
Painting 2004, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Obituary, Placemaker, Miami, FL
Lock Stock and Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
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, NY
Summer Romance, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY traveled to Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MoCA, North Miami, FL
Made in Miami Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
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
Drawing Conclusions, Curated by Nina Arias, Buena Vista Building, Miami, FL
In the Place of Revolution, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2002
AOP002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Friends and Family Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
Dangerous Beauty The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York, NY
Champion Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Fast Forward Projects at the Nash Hotel Art Fair, Miami Beach,
FL
Humid, Curated by Dominic Molon, curator, MOCA, Chicago, Moore Building,
Miami
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2000
Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Robot, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Ob-la-di-Ob-la-da, Curated by Gean Moreno Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach
Young Miami, Wooster Projects, New York, NY
The Home Show, 890 NE 90th Street, Miami, FL
Departing Perspectives, Curated by Fred Snitzer, Espirito Santo Building, Miami, FL
1999
Wish You Were Here, Box Forum, Miami, FL
TRANScontinENTal Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
Superfantastic 7 The Dirt Room, Kansas City, Ohio
1998
The Fashion Issue: four simple steps towards younger looking skin, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Frank: an adj Connoting Superfantastic Baltimore, MD
1997
Group Show, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Skye Sherwin, Ten painters you should meet, Ten (Men) Magazine, Autumn 2009
Ray Rogers, Miami Artist Hernan Bas Captures Hedi Slimane, Gets Personal with Madonna, Blackbookmag.com, 20 May 2009
Alexandra Peers, Little Warhols: Post-boom, artists may rule their own productivity, New York Magazine, 10 May 2009 Lily Alexander, Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun and other forms of unpopular expression, Whitewall, 6 May 2009
Kimberly Straus, Once Upon a Time, Vogue, March 2009
Daniel Schreiber, Ab der 27 Februar: Herman Bas zeigt in New York melancholische Schwuleund Meerjungfrauen,Monopol, Nr. 2/2009
David Colman, Hernan Bas, Elle Décor, May 2008
Hernan Bas: Where the Boys Aren’t, Wound, Issue 2, 2008
Mark Coetzee & Mark Clintberg, Hernan Bas: A literal reference, Arte al Dia
International, Issue 121
Jessica Lack, Hernan Bas, The Guardian Guide, 2 June 2007
Ossian Ward, Ab 2. Juni: Hernan Bas zeigt in London seine dekadenten Heiligenbilder, Monopol, Nr. 6/2007
Sarah Douglas, Hernan Bas: L’Invenzione dell’Amore, Flash Art, June – July 2006
Emma Gravagnuolo, Hernan Bas, Arte, June 2006
Michelle Weinberg, Hernan Bas, Tema Celeste, Issue 114, March/April 2006
Holland Cotter, Hernan Bas: Dandies, Pansies & Prudes, New York Times, 24 March 2006
Elisa Turner, The Hardy Boys Meet the Sea Nymphs, ArtNews, January 2006
Ideal Worlds (exhibition catalogue), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Enrique Fernandez and Fabiola Santiago, Miami Makes the Scene, The Miami Herald, 30
November
Humberto Guida, In a Class by Themselves, Art Basel Miami Beach
Elisa Turner, Made in Miami, The Miami Herald, 9 October
Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Big Man on Canvas, Miami New Times, 10 – 16 November
Elisa Turner, Global Art Locally: Rubell Collection Showcases Miami Artists, The Miami Herald, 26 June
Alfredo Triff, Cracking Stereotypes, Miami New Times, 2 June
Patricia Ellis, Triumph of Painting – Part III, Saatchi Gallery, Ldonon
Bonnie Clearwater, MoCA and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Omar Sommeryns, The Miami Art World is Vapid Like a Soap Opera – Hernan Bas is not, www.ignoremagazine.com, July issue
Fisun Güner, Gothic Worlds Collide, The Metro, 29 March 2005
Nick Hackworth, Bas proves power of the brush, Evening Standard, 24 March
Jessica Lack, Hernan Bas, Preview, the Guardian Guide, 19 March
Sarah Douglas, Hernan Bas: Meet Me at the Cemetary Gate, Flash Art, January – February 2005
Robert J. Hughes, Up and Coming: Hernan Bas, Artist, Weekend Journal, The Wall Street Journal, February 25
Joao Ribas, The Other Side of Paradise, Art Review, December 2004 – January 2005
Soap Operatic: Hernan Bas introduction by Silvia KarmanTexts by Nancy Spector, Massimiliano Gioni and Hernan Bas
Karen Rosenberg, Rothko Triumphed Renoir, New York, 20 – 27 December, p.84
Elizabeth Schambelan, Hernan Bas, Daniel Reich Gallery, Artforum, December Best of 2004 Issue
Anna-Maria Diaz-Balart, The Mind of An Artist, Loft, December, pp. 24-26
Talent: Boys Gone Wild, New York, 20 September, p. 89
Roberto Juarez, Artists on Artists: Roberto Juarez on Hernan Bas, The Bomb, Summer, pp. 14-15
Turn up the Bas, 95 East, Spring 2004, p. 72
David Amber, Bas Relief, New Times Broward Palm Beach, 1 – 7 April
Elisa Turner, Critic’s Pick, The Miami Herald, 12 March
Hunting Season Opens, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, 7 March
Fisun Güner, Young Pros, Evening Standard, MetroLife, London 14 April
Nick Hackworth, Touch of Zen with No Zing, Evening Standard, London April
Helen Sumpter, Painting 2004: Victoria Miro, Time Out London, April
Pascale Dupuy, Miami S’ExposeI, Elle, February, pp. 102-103
Elisa Turner, Amazing Journey, Tropical Life, The Miami Herald, 19 January. Cover Story
Matthew Kangas, Humor, social commentary leave lasting impression, The Seattle Times, 9 January
Roni Feinstein, Report From Miami, Art in America, December, p. 56
Best Solo Show: Hernan Bas – First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys, Sun Post, December 13
Whitney Announces Biennial Artists, Art in America, December p. 128
Candice Russell, South Florida Cultural Consortium Recipients, South Florida Times, October p. 20
Holland Cotter, By and About Men, They’re Running with It, The New York Times, 8 August
Elisa Turner, The Joys of Summer, The Miami Herald, 3 August, 3M
Michael Cohen, The New Gothic: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, Flash Art, July – September, vol. XXXVI, No. 231, pp. 108 – 110
Galleries – Downtown: Women Beware Women, The New Yorker, December 1 and December 13
Martha Schwendender Women Beware Women, Time Out, New York. 4 – 11 December, Issue no. 427
Reena Jana, Miami, art on paper, January p. 68
Elisa Turner, Consortium Surprises, As Usual, Miami Herald, August 3
Street Miami, March 29 – April 4
Smoke and Mirrors: Art in Magic City, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 5 July
Art Basel and Beyond, Street Miami, 6 – 12 December
Reena Jana,Gallery Walk: Miami, art on paper, April
Eileen Kinsella, Wise Buys, ARTNews, summer
Damarys Ocaña, Humid, Art Papers Magazine, March / April
Shana Nys Dambrot, Hernan Bas, tema celeste, #96. P. 93
Walter Robinson, More From Miami, artnet.com, December 9
Alfredo Triff, Summer Fashion, Miami New Times: Art, July 25-31
Elisa Turner, Sharp FIU Exhibit Nails Complex Human Condition, The Miami Herald: Visual Arts, January 19
Elisa Turner, Hardy Boys Meet Teen Angst, Miami Herald, December 1
Independent Events: Art Basel Miami Beach, The Miami Herald, 1 December
Ear Candy, Street Miami: Art Listings, 11 – 17 January
Damarys Ocaña, Boy Story: Hernan Bas keeps the narrative about sexuality going at Snitzer show, The Street, 27 December 2002 – 2 January 2003, p. 64
Gean Moreno, Miami, Art Papers Magazine, November / December
Damarys Ocaña, Artist’s Works are SlimFast Pickings, Street Miami, 5 – 11 January
Damarys Ocaña, Gender Benders, Street Miami: Artseen
Miguel A. Sirgado, Los Escenarios Apacibles de Hernan Bas, El Nuevo Herald: Artes Y Letras, July
Alfredo Triff, Hernan’s Merit and the Nouveau Sissies, Miami New Times: Art
Nouveau Sissies on Display, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, July 6
Robot, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 1 December
An Artistic Ode to Miami, Street Miami, Artseen, December 22 – 26
Loann Halden, Travels in Hernanland, Miami, Only in TWN
Elisa Turner, MoCAs Heart, Art, Right at Home in Miami, Miami Herald: Living and Arts, 29 NovemberWalter Robinson, More From Miami, artnet.com, December 9
Alfredo Triff, Summer Fashion, Miami New Times: Art, July 25-31
Elisa Turner, Sharp FIU Exhibit Nails Complex Human Condition, The Miami Herald: Visual Arts, January 19
Elisa Turner, Hardy Boys Meet Teen Angst, Miami Herald, December 1
Independent Events: Art Basel Miami Beach, The Miami Herald, 1 December
Ear Candy, Street Miami: Art Listings, 11 – 17 January
Damarys Ocaña, Boy Story: Hernan Bas keeps the narrative about sexuality going at Snitzer show, The Street, 27 December 2002 – 2 January 2003, p. 64
Gean Moreno, Miami, Art Papers Magazine, November / December
Damarys Ocaña, Artist’s Works are SlimFast Pickings, Street Miami, 5 – 11 January
Damarys Ocaña, Gender Benders, Street Miami: Artseen
Miguel A. Sirgado, Los Escenarios Apacibles de Hernan Bas, El Nuevo Herald: Artes Y Letras, July
Alfredo Triff, Hernan’s Merit and the Nouveau Sissies, Miami New Times: Art
Nouveau Sissies on Display, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, July 6
Robot, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 1 December
An Artistic Ode to Miami, Street Miami, Artseen, December 22 – 26
Loann Halden, Travels in Hernanland, Miami, Only in TWN
Elisa Turner, MoCAs Heart, Art, Right at Home in Miami, Miami Herald: Living and Arts, 29 November
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Miami, Florida
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
New Perfumes, Larger Blossoms, Pleasures Untasted. Hernan Bas and the Natural World: Selections from the Rubell Collection, YoungArts Gallery, Miami, FL
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
2012
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
2011
The Forest for the Trees, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Galleria Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Peter Kilchman, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
The Hallucinations of Poets, Victoria Miro, London, England
Considering Henry, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
2009
In the land of make me believe, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice,
Italy
The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular
expression, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Ask the Sky, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
The Unexplained, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2007
Hernan Bas: Works from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Evening Amusements, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Saints and Secret Sects, Galleria II Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Saints and Secret Sects, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Mephistopheles at 17, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006
The Great Barrier Wreath, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
A Silent Dirge, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Dandies, Pansies and Prudes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Once Upon a Time…, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
In the Low Light, Victoria Miro, London, England
2004
Soap Operatic, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
As if a Phantom Carres’d me, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Sometimes with One I Love, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
We May Even See the Wind Together, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2003
We May Even See the Wind Together, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2002
First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Love in Vein, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
It’s Super Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2001
Hernan’s Merit & the Nouveau Sissies, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2000
Slim Fast, Frances Wolfson Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, Curated by Goran Tomcic
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
SEINFELD [ a show about nothing ], Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY Love: The First of the 7 Virtues, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson, NY Tracing Shadows, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
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, New York, NY
2011
The Cry, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC), Leon, Spain.
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, United Kingdom
Make Believe, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects and artists 2005-2010, Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY
Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Day Jackson, R.H. Quaytman, etc., Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
In the company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Five in Istanbul: A Selection of Artists from Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Borusan Muzik Evi, Istanbul, Turkey
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Lush Life 3: First Bird (A Few Butterflies), curated by Franklin Evans & Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
2009
The Collectors, The Nordic Pavilion and the Danish Pavilion
53rd Venice Biennale, Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Venice,
Italy
Wunderland, KadE, Amersfoot, The Netherlands
2008
Exhibitions 21: Selections from the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
6th Busan Biennale, Korea
The Dulcet Clime of the Bedchamber, curated by Nicholas Weist, Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin
Miami Comes to the Hamptons, Snitzer – Arregui Project, East Hamptons, NY
( i- murj:d), Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
The Boys of Summer, The Fireplace Project, Curated by Shelly Fox Aarons and Edsel Williams, East Hamptons, NY
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, Italy
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, Pilar Parra & Romero Gallería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Mixed Emotions, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Think Warm, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Breathing Time: Works from the Debra & Dennis Scholl collection, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Girlpower and Boyhood, Talbot Rice Gallery (in conjuction with Kunsthallen Brandts), University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Panic Room: works from the Dakis Joannou collection, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2005
New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Triumph of Painting – Part III, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Little Odysseys, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Ten, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Ideal Wiorlds – New Romanticism in Contemporary Art Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Situational Prosthetics, Curated by Nate Lowman, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004
Galleon and Other Stories, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Origins of Harold, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Miami Nice, Galerie Emmanuel Perotin, Paris, France
Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Heavenly Creatures, Galerie Thaddeus Ropec, Salzburg, Austria
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Drawing Show, The Green Barn, Sagaponack, NY
Painting 2004, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Obituary, Placemaker, Miami, FL
Lock Stock and Barrel, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
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, NY
Summer Romance, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY traveled to Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MoCA, North Miami, FL
Made in Miami Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
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
Drawing Conclusions, Curated by Nina Arias, Buena Vista Building, Miami, FL
In the Place of Revolution, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2002
AOP002: The 37th Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Friends and Family Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY
Dangerous Beauty The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York, NY
Champion Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Fast Forward Projects at the Nash Hotel Art Fair, Miami Beach,
FL
Humid, Curated by Dominic Molon, curator, MOCA, Chicago, Moore Building,
Miami
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2000
Making Art in Miami: Travels in Hyperreality, Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Robot, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Ob-la-di-Ob-la-da, Curated by Gean Moreno Art Center/South Florida, Miami Beach
Young Miami, Wooster Projects, New York, NY
The Home Show, 890 NE 90th Street, Miami, FL
Departing Perspectives, Curated by Fred Snitzer, Espirito Santo Building, Miami, FL
1999
Wish You Were Here, Box Forum, Miami, FL
TRANScontinENTal Galerie, Montreal, Quebec
Superfantastic 7 The Dirt Room, Kansas City, Ohio
1998
The Fashion Issue: four simple steps towards younger looking skin, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Frank: an adj Connoting Superfantastic Baltimore, MD
1997
Group Show, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Skye Sherwin, Ten painters you should meet, Ten (Men) Magazine, Autumn 2009
Ray Rogers, Miami Artist Hernan Bas Captures Hedi Slimane, Gets Personal with Madonna, Blackbookmag.com, 20 May 2009
Alexandra Peers, Little Warhols: Post-boom, artists may rule their own productivity, New York Magazine, 10 May 2009 Lily Alexander, Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun and other forms of unpopular expression, Whitewall, 6 May 2009
Kimberly Straus, Once Upon a Time, Vogue, March 2009
Daniel Schreiber, Ab der 27 Februar: Herman Bas zeigt in New York melancholische Schwuleund Meerjungfrauen,Monopol, Nr. 2/2009
David Colman, Hernan Bas, Elle Décor, May 2008
Hernan Bas: Where the Boys Aren’t, Wound, Issue 2, 2008
Mark Coetzee & Mark Clintberg, Hernan Bas: A literal reference, Arte al Dia
International, Issue 121
Jessica Lack, Hernan Bas, The Guardian Guide, 2 June 2007
Ossian Ward, Ab 2. Juni: Hernan Bas zeigt in London seine dekadenten Heiligenbilder, Monopol, Nr. 6/2007
Sarah Douglas, Hernan Bas: L’Invenzione dell’Amore, Flash Art, June – July 2006
Emma Gravagnuolo, Hernan Bas, Arte, June 2006
Michelle Weinberg, Hernan Bas, Tema Celeste, Issue 114, March/April 2006
Holland Cotter, Hernan Bas: Dandies, Pansies & Prudes, New York Times, 24 March 2006
Elisa Turner, The Hardy Boys Meet the Sea Nymphs, ArtNews, January 2006
Ideal Worlds (exhibition catalogue), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Enrique Fernandez and Fabiola Santiago, Miami Makes the Scene, The Miami Herald, 30
November
Humberto Guida, In a Class by Themselves, Art Basel Miami Beach
Elisa Turner, Made in Miami, The Miami Herald, 9 October
Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Big Man on Canvas, Miami New Times, 10 – 16 November
Elisa Turner, Global Art Locally: Rubell Collection Showcases Miami Artists, The Miami Herald, 26 June
Alfredo Triff, Cracking Stereotypes, Miami New Times, 2 June
Patricia Ellis, Triumph of Painting – Part III, Saatchi Gallery, Ldonon
Bonnie Clearwater, MoCA and Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Omar Sommeryns, The Miami Art World is Vapid Like a Soap Opera – Hernan Bas is not, www.ignoremagazine.com, July issue
Fisun Güner, Gothic Worlds Collide, The Metro, 29 March 2005
Nick Hackworth, Bas proves power of the brush, Evening Standard, 24 March
Jessica Lack, Hernan Bas, Preview, the Guardian Guide, 19 March
Sarah Douglas, Hernan Bas: Meet Me at the Cemetary Gate, Flash Art, January – February 2005
Robert J. Hughes, Up and Coming: Hernan Bas, Artist, Weekend Journal, The Wall Street Journal, February 25
Joao Ribas, The Other Side of Paradise, Art Review, December 2004 – January 2005
Soap Operatic: Hernan Bas introduction by Silvia KarmanTexts by Nancy Spector, Massimiliano Gioni and Hernan Bas
Karen Rosenberg, Rothko Triumphed Renoir, New York, 20 – 27 December, p.84
Elizabeth Schambelan, Hernan Bas, Daniel Reich Gallery, Artforum, December Best of 2004 Issue
Anna-Maria Diaz-Balart, The Mind of An Artist, Loft, December, pp. 24-26
Talent: Boys Gone Wild, New York, 20 September, p. 89
Roberto Juarez, Artists on Artists: Roberto Juarez on Hernan Bas, The Bomb, Summer, pp. 14-15
Turn up the Bas, 95 East, Spring 2004, p. 72
David Amber, Bas Relief, New Times Broward Palm Beach, 1 – 7 April
Elisa Turner, Critic’s Pick, The Miami Herald, 12 March
Hunting Season Opens, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, 7 March
Fisun Güner, Young Pros, Evening Standard, MetroLife, London 14 April
Nick Hackworth, Touch of Zen with No Zing, Evening Standard, London April
Helen Sumpter, Painting 2004: Victoria Miro, Time Out London, April
Pascale Dupuy, Miami S’ExposeI, Elle, February, pp. 102-103
Elisa Turner, Amazing Journey, Tropical Life, The Miami Herald, 19 January. Cover Story
Matthew Kangas, Humor, social commentary leave lasting impression, The Seattle Times, 9 January
Roni Feinstein, Report From Miami, Art in America, December, p. 56
Best Solo Show: Hernan Bas – First Comes the Blood, Then Come the Boys, Sun Post, December 13
Whitney Announces Biennial Artists, Art in America, December p. 128
Candice Russell, South Florida Cultural Consortium Recipients, South Florida Times, October p. 20
Holland Cotter, By and About Men, They’re Running with It, The New York Times, 8 August
Elisa Turner, The Joys of Summer, The Miami Herald, 3 August, 3M
Michael Cohen, The New Gothic: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, Flash Art, July – September, vol. XXXVI, No. 231, pp. 108 – 110
Galleries – Downtown: Women Beware Women, The New Yorker, December 1 and December 13
Martha Schwendender Women Beware Women, Time Out, New York. 4 – 11 December, Issue no. 427
Reena Jana, Miami, art on paper, January p. 68
Elisa Turner, Consortium Surprises, As Usual, Miami Herald, August 3
Street Miami, March 29 – April 4
Smoke and Mirrors: Art in Magic City, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 5 July
Art Basel and Beyond, Street Miami, 6 – 12 December
Reena Jana,Gallery Walk: Miami, art on paper, April
Eileen Kinsella, Wise Buys, ARTNews, summer
Damarys Ocaña, Humid, Art Papers Magazine, March / April
Shana Nys Dambrot, Hernan Bas, tema celeste, #96. P. 93
Walter Robinson, More From Miami, artnet.com, December 9
Alfredo Triff, Summer Fashion, Miami New Times: Art, July 25-31
Elisa Turner, Sharp FIU Exhibit Nails Complex Human Condition, The Miami Herald: Visual Arts, January 19
Elisa Turner, Hardy Boys Meet Teen Angst, Miami Herald, December 1
Independent Events: Art Basel Miami Beach, The Miami Herald, 1 December
Ear Candy, Street Miami: Art Listings, 11 – 17 January
Damarys Ocaña, Boy Story: Hernan Bas keeps the narrative about sexuality going at Snitzer show, The Street, 27 December 2002 – 2 January 2003, p. 64
Gean Moreno, Miami, Art Papers Magazine, November / December
Damarys Ocaña, Artist’s Works are SlimFast Pickings, Street Miami, 5 – 11 January
Damarys Ocaña, Gender Benders, Street Miami: Artseen
Miguel A. Sirgado, Los Escenarios Apacibles de Hernan Bas, El Nuevo Herald: Artes Y Letras, July
Alfredo Triff, Hernan’s Merit and the Nouveau Sissies, Miami New Times: Art
Nouveau Sissies on Display, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, July 6
Robot, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 1 December
An Artistic Ode to Miami, Street Miami, Artseen, December 22 – 26
Loann Halden, Travels in Hernanland, Miami, Only in TWN
Elisa Turner, MoCAs Heart, Art, Right at Home in Miami, Miami Herald: Living and Arts, 29 NovemberWalter Robinson, More From Miami, artnet.com, December 9
Alfredo Triff, Summer Fashion, Miami New Times: Art, July 25-31
Elisa Turner, Sharp FIU Exhibit Nails Complex Human Condition, The Miami Herald: Visual Arts, January 19
Elisa Turner, Hardy Boys Meet Teen Angst, Miami Herald, December 1
Independent Events: Art Basel Miami Beach, The Miami Herald, 1 December
Ear Candy, Street Miami: Art Listings, 11 – 17 January
Damarys Ocaña, Boy Story: Hernan Bas keeps the narrative about sexuality going at Snitzer show, The Street, 27 December 2002 – 2 January 2003, p. 64
Gean Moreno, Miami, Art Papers Magazine, November / December
Damarys Ocaña, Artist’s Works are SlimFast Pickings, Street Miami, 5 – 11 January
Damarys Ocaña, Gender Benders, Street Miami: Artseen
Miguel A. Sirgado, Los Escenarios Apacibles de Hernan Bas, El Nuevo Herald: Artes Y Letras, July
Alfredo Triff, Hernan’s Merit and the Nouveau Sissies, Miami New Times: Art
Nouveau Sissies on Display, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, July 6
Robot, The Miami Herald, The Ticket, 1 December
An Artistic Ode to Miami, Street Miami, Artseen, December 22 – 26
Loann Halden, Travels in Hernanland, Miami, Only in TWN
Elisa Turner, MoCAs Heart, Art, Right at Home in Miami, Miami Herald: Living and Arts, 29 November