Graduated in 1974 from the Beaux-Arts of Toulouse, Bernard Pras became an auxiliary teacher in various colleges before resigning from the National Education. His artistic activity then turned to engraving with Claude Manesse.

At the end of the 1980s, after several years of doubt and research into form, he began to find his own artistic path by developing the principle of aquagravure, and then in 1994, by creating installations and assemblages of heterogeneous objects in the manner of Arcimboldo2,3,4, whose overall composition only really takes shape for the viewer through the medium of photography5,6 which recreates the flat image desired by the artist. The first major exhibition took place in 1998. This principle of anamorphosis has been the guiding principle of the artist since then, who has tried his hand at larger installations and worked in the form of varied inventories reinterpreting various well-known images from the history of art (Crucifixion, van Gogh, Francis Bacon...), and from contemporary society (portraits of Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Mickey, Jacques Dutronc7...).

In 2001, he directed the credits for the 26th César night at the request of the director Arnaud Vincenti8. In 2007, he created a trompe-l'oeil installation for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, entitled and representing Captain America9.

He lives and works near Paris, in Montreuil.