Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Hernan Bas: On Paper. Installed in the gallery's FSG Editions space, the exhibition brings together a selection of monotypes, ink transfer drawings, and works on paper created between 2018 and 2024, offering an intimate view into the artist's evolving practice across a range of themes, processes, and scales.
Widely recognized for his lush narrative paintings, Bas has long used drawing and printmaking as a space for experimentation, invention, and reflection. The works gathered here reveal the artist's sustained engagement with paper as a site of immediacy, where ideas emerge through gesture, repetition, and material exploration. Moving fluidly between finished compositions and exploratory studies, the exhibition highlights the versatility of Bas's personal lexicon and technical prowess.
Included are selections from the artist's Supercuts series, in which stylized portraits are transformed through distinctive hairstyles that function as markers of identity, aspiration, and self-fashioning. Presented alongside these works are medium-format compositions that draw from the diverse subjects that have defined Bas's practice: adolescent longing, literary romanticism, queer histories, folklore, travel, and the performance of self. Together, the works demonstrate the artist's ability to balance humor, melancholy, and narrative ambiguity while continually reinventing his visual language.
About Hernan Bas
Hernan Bas (b. 1978) lives and works in Miami, Florida. The artist’s recent solo institutional exhibitions include Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA (2023); Hernan Bas: Choose Your Own Adventure, Space K, Seoul, South Korea; Yuz Museum, West Bund, Shanghai, China (2021-22); Hernan Bas, Rubell Museum, Miami, USA (2020-22); Hernan Bas: A Brief Intermissions, CAC Málaga, Spain (2018) and Florida Living, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017). Bas’ work was featured as part of The Collectors, conceived by Elmgreen & Dragset for Nordic and Danish Pavilions, The 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2009).
Works by the artist are included in the collections of Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
