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 work engages ritual, collapse, and ecstatic transformation through material assemblage and character-driven forms. His work has been exhibited at institutions including the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and featured in large-scale projects such as JAM NOLA and Meow Wolf’s Phenomenomaly.
Installations & Special 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
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
ARTIST TALKS & PANELS
2024
Arcadian Rhythms - Panel
2023
Artist Talk - University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
2022
Panel - Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Press & Features
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
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
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
Selected Costume & Fabrication Experience
Twisted Metal - Mask Fabricator; Additional Ager/Dyer, Peacock, New Orleans, 2022
The Winchesters - Additional Ager/Dyer, The CW, New Orleans, 2022
Interview with the Vampire - Additional Ager/Dyer, AMC, New Orleans, 2021–2022
Devotion - Additional Ager/Dyer, Sony, Savannah, 2021
65 - Additional Ager/Dyer, Sony, New Orleans, 2020
Project Power - Additional Ager/Dyer, Netflix, New Orleans, 2020
Education
2011
BA, English - University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC