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BUCK ELLISON

b. 1987, San Francisco
Lives and works in Los Angeles

MAIL 

buckellisonstudio@gmail.com

SCHOOL

HFBK Frankfurt a.M. Städelschule, 2014

Columbia University, 2010
B.A. German Literature
B.A. Art

TALKS

Modern Art Notes Podcast, 2021

Huntington Museum, 2021

Nicholas Barlow on Buck Ellison, Hammer Museum, 2021

Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation, Delpire & Co., 2021
Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum, 2019







SHOWS

Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, 2023
Little Brother, Luhring Augustine, New York, 2023

16th Lyon Biennale Of Contemporary Art: Manifesto Of Fragility, 2022

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022

Slip Lead, Stora Sunby Castle, Stockholm, 2021
Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Huntington Museum, Pasadena, 2021

Useful Life, Balice Hertling, Paris, 2019

Tender Option, The Sunday Painter, London, 2019

Antarctica, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunsthalle Wien, 2018

The Meeting, New York, 2017
Louisa, Balice Hertling, Paris, 2016
Modesty, Weiss Berlin, 2016

Mad Horizon, Index, Stockholm, 2016
The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 

Country Day, Bad Bentheim Castle, Burg Bentheim, 2015
PRESS

Glass, Joshua, “Can Buck Ellison Make You Care About Erik Prince?,” Cultured Magazine, 21 March 2023.

Diehl, Travis, “Buck Ellison’s Great White Society,” The New York Times, 24 June 2022.

Griffin, Jonathan, “Buck Ellison’s American Freaks,” Art Review, 9 June 2022.
Wiley, Chris, “What Old Money Looks Like In America, And Who Pays For It,” The New Yorker, 1 August 2021.
Sawyer, Drew, “Openings: Buck Ellison,” Artforum, Summer 2017, p. 336-341.

Ben Salah, Myriam, “Guilty Pleasure,” Kaleidoscope, Fall 2018, p. 228-342.

Bengal, Rebecca, “Buck Ellison,” Aperture, September 2017, p. 100-107.

Ellison, Buck and Marina Pinsky, “Comfort Is Tricky,” Mousse, 20 April 2017.
Thawley, Dan, “Buck Ellison,” L’Uomo Vogue, 23 November 2017, p. 201-203.
Abel-Hirsch, Hannah, “An unlikely portrait of W.A.S.P America,” British Journal of Photography, 22 April 2020.


The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization, Edited with text by Daniel C. Blight, published 2019Installation view, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, April 6 - September 5, 2022Living Trust, 132 pages, 60 color plates, 9.8 x 12.6. inches, Clothbound embossed hardcover texts by Lucy Ives, Orit Gat and Brooke Harrington, April 2020
Living Trust, 132 pages, 60 color plates, 9.8 x 12.6. inches, Clothbound embossed hardcover texts by Lucy Ives, Orit Gat and Brooke Harrington, April 2020Living Trust, 132 pages, 60 color plates, 9.8 x 12.6. inches, Clothbound embossed hardcover texts by Lucy Ives, Orit Gat and Brooke Harrington, April 2020Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, April 6 - September 5, 2022Installation view, "Imperfect Paradise," Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, March 9 - May 6, 2023Exhibition poster, Louisa, Balice Hertling, Paris, November 5, 2016 - January 7, 2017





Installation view, Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, September 9 - October 29, 2023
Installation view, Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, September 9 - October 29, 2023
Installation view, Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, Italy, September 9 - October 29, 2023
Installation view, "Little Brother," Luhring Augustine, New York, March 17 - April 29, 2023
Installation view, "Little Brother," Luhring Augustine, New York, March 17 - April 29, 2023Installation view, "Little Brother," Luhring Augustine, New York, March 17 - April 29, 2023Installation view, "Little Brother," Luhring Augustine, New York, March 17 - April 29, 2023
Installation view, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, April 6 - September 5, 2022Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It's Kept, Whitney Museum of Art, NY, curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, April 6 - September 5, 2022Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021Installation view, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington, Pasadena, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler, April 17 - August 1, 2021



























































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