Baz Here

Baz Here is a queer fine art photographer, musician, writer, and educator living in downtown Los Angeles. A multidisciplinary artist, Here is interested in the sound current and its effect on visual aesthetics. Through the use of self-portraiture, still life, moving image, and collage, his work explores and often reimagines queer identities developed in adolescence to survive Christian ideologies. Past exhibitions have appeared at The Hive, Featured Resident Artist (DTLA) / The Getty Center / Out There, Gallery 825 / Gallerie Sparta / LACDA / Beyond Baroque / Art Share LA / and Los Angeles LGBT Center Advocate and Gochis Galleries. His work has been featured in The Advocate and The Cultural Weekly. Here received his MFA in Photography from New York Film Academy and is currently working towards a PhD in Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University.