Basqo Bim (born in Greenwood, South Carolina) is a self-taught artist living in New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate of the University of South Carolina with a BA in English with a focus on secondary education, he began making art in his 30s.

Combining references from his Colombian-American and Southern roots with upcycled materials, Basqo Bim offers a chance to explore the dimensions of self using the opulent and bizarre as a vehicle. Influenced by personal roots in Catholicism, literary roots in Southern Gothic and Southern Grotesque, and depictions of body horror, Bim weaves these influences into recognizable cultural forms. These forms, such as religious and folk objects, are intentionally distorted and exaggerated to heighten their emotional and symbolic impact.

Caught between spectacle and mourning, his storytelling gathers the fragments of forgotten parades, broken altars, and spectral saints. His work builds soft monuments to reliquary leftovers, using tulle, pearls, and decay to summon striking glimpses through the thinned veil.