cv / resume
Basqo Bim
Contemporary Artist — New Orleans, LA
Basqo Bim is a New Orleans–based contemporary artist working across sculptural masks, immersive installations, and hybrid devotional objects. His practice explores ritual, collapse, and ecstatic transformation through material assemblage and character-based forms. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and presented in large-scale projects such as JAM NOLA and Meow Wolf’s Phenomenomaly.
Explore selected work, exhibitions, and press.
Installations & Special Projects
Large-scale installations and commissioned works integrating sculptural mask forms into immersive environments and public-facing projects.
2025
Phenomenomaly — Mask Design & Fabrication for Performance Series, Meow Wolf / Omega Mart, Las Vegas, NV
Tatán — Permanent Installation, JAM NOLA, New Orleans, LA
2024
Para Sol, Para Todos — Installation for Expedia, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA
Carnival Season Installation — The Chloe Hotel, New Orleans, LA
2023
Little Amal — Headpiece Design, The Walk International Arts Festival, New Orleans, LA
Solo Exhibitions
Exhibitions presenting cohesive bodies of work centered on sculptural masks and hybrid devotional forms.
2026
Gnostic Gnosis & The Known Woes — Monsters of the Underworld, New Orleans, LA
2024
Robust Moribund & The Charnel House — Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, LA
Masks by Basqo — Bywater Framing, New Orleans, LA
2021
Menjurje y Maranguango — The Front, New Orleans, LA
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
2025
Refreshing America: Artists of America From Other Lands — Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, LA
2023
ALL THAT WAS BRIGHT — University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2022
Fashion For Bank Robbers — MaximiliansForum, Munich, Germany
Disguises — Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Our Monsters — Antenna, New Orleans, LA
2023
Front and Center — Plug Gallery, Kansas City, KS
Future Shock(with Justine Woods) — The Front, New Orleans, LA
New Member Show — The Front, New Orleans, LA
2022
Puerto Homogéneo(with Yashira Dávalos) — Studio Appaix, New Orleans, LA
donde se despierta mi risa — The Front, New Orleans, LA
Humidity — The Maven, New Orleans, LA
Grants & Awards
2024
Platforms Fund Artist Grantees — Culture Bearer Implementation (as part of Colectiva Manos)
Jazz & Heritage Community Partnership Grant - Visual Art Component
Press & Features
Coverage highlighting Basqo Bim’s sculptural mask practice, installation work, and role within New Orleans’ contemporary art landscape. See full press.
Major Publications
Recycled Splendor and a Wild Mardi Gras Masquerade — Garden & Gun
About Face — Louisiana Life
Interviews
Basqo Bim Comes Out of His Shell — Antigravity
(Discussion of sculptural mask work and installation practice)
Basqo Bim’s Creative Odyssey In New Orleans — The Truth In This Art
The Wild Rumpus of Basqo Bim — PEPPER Magazine
Meow Wolf Artist Interview — Meow Wolf
Features & Listings
Labors of Love Behind NOLA’s Extravagant Mardi Gras Costumes — Where Y’at
Basqo Bim — Tilted House
14 Diverse Contemporary Artists That You Need To Check Out ASAP — The Art of Education
Institutional & Project Coverage
Robust Moribund & The Charnel House — MutualArt
Refreshing America — WDSU (Don Marshall)
Disguises — Country Roads
Southeastern CAG To Exhibit Artwork By Four Artists — Southeastern Louisiana University
All That Was Bright — University of West Florida
Art Exhibit Addresses Humanity’s Uncertain Future — WUWF
JAM NOLA Artist Bio — JAM NOLA
Former bakery becomes $5.4m selfie wonderland — NOLA.com
Phenomenomaly — Meow Wolf
Art Review: Phenomenomaly — Stage and Cinema
In The Studio: Little Amal — BBC World Service
Walk With Amal New Orleans — The Walk
Bywater Journey — Reese Johanson
Larger Than Life Parasol — EventMarketer
Day-to-Night Activation — BizBash
A Taste of Colombia at Jazz Fest — Offbeat
What’s New at Jazz Fest 2024 — Axios
Best of Jazz Fest 2024 — Tulane Hullabaloo
Education
2011
BA, English — University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC