(b. San Francisco, CA)

Hugo Regan is a designer and interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas. Working through figuration, portraiture, and still life, his practice embraces storytelling as a means of preserving memory and extending traditions of gathering and community. His figures, often inspired by friends and loved ones, inhabit imagined spaces that invite curiosity, reflection, and possibility. Within these scenes, the fantastical and the tender overlap, allowing his subjects to carry both presence and agency.

His practice spans painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and digital media, often folding these disciplines into new experiments. Regan’s visual language is rooted in research and observation, drawing on moments from art history—from the sculptural traditions of pre-colonial Americas and the figuration of stained glass to the gestures of modernist portraiture. These references converge in works that employ light and abstraction as tools for rethinking narrative. The results are compositions that linger between the sacred and the everyday, where memory and imagination remain in continuous dialogue.

Regan received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Art Institute of Houston. He is the founder of Sorta Happy Studios, a design practice serving nonprofits, the medical field, and cultural centers. He has exhibited across Texas and nationally through public projects, murals, and exhibitions, and was a founding member of Qollective, an interdisciplinary collective dedicated to performance-based exhibitions shaped by contemporary and historical political currents.