Hugo Regan (b. San Francisco) is a Texas-based visual artist whose work centers on the figure as psychological and narrative space. Drawing from Central American folklore and a queer sensibility, his paintings place figures in states of exposure, watched, tender, and unresolved.

Artist Statement

My paintings begin with a simple question: How do we find our way through the unknown?
I create figurative works that explore migration, kinship, queer identity, and the search for belonging. Growing up as the child of Salvadoran immigrants of multiethnic heritage, I inherited stories of movement, survival, and reinvention. Those histories continue to shape the worlds I paint.

The figures in my work often occupy landscapes that feel both familiar and imagined. Forests become places of uncertainty. Water becomes a site of reflection and transformation. Animals, spirits, and folkloric presences emerge as companions, guides, or witnesses. These environments visualize emotional and cultural memory.

I am interested in creating images where Black and Brown bodies exist beyond narratives of struggle alone. My figures rest, wander, dream, care for one another, and move through spaces filled with beauty, mystery, and possibility.