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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

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

ASSIGNMENTS

Arena Hommes+
Balenciaga
Courrèges
Martine Rose x Tommy Hilfiger
The New York Times
Nike
PIN-UP
POP Magazine
Vogue Hommes
Vogue Italia










SHOWS

Get In the Game: Sports and Contemporary Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern, 2024
Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2024

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

17th Biennale de Lyon, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, 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, Kunsthalle Wien, 2018

Louisa, Balice Hertling, Paris, 2016
Modesty, Weiss Berlin, 2016

Mad Horizon, Index: The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, 2016
The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 

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

Lewis, Jurrell, “In the Studio: Buck Ellison works to get toward the truth,” Art21, 29 September 2023.
Kastner, Jeffrey, “Buck Ellison: Luhring Augustine Chelsea,” Artforum, Summer 2023.

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.




BOOKS

Risk, Idea Books, 2024 

Best Reply, Piglet Press, 2023
Untitled (Gibson Dunn), Piglet Press, 2022 

Little Brother, Piglet Press, 2022
Living Trust, Loose Joints, 2020 (monograph)

Blight, Daniel, The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization, Self Publish Be Happy, 2019

Sawyer, Drew, The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, 2016

Wandering #2, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland, 2012

LECTURES

Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago, 2023
Artists at the Institute, NYU Institute of Fine Arts Speaker Series, 2023
Buck Ellison in Conversation with Dr. Shamus Khan, Princeton University Effron Center for the Study of America, 2023

Buck Ellison in Conversation with Dr. Shamus Khan, Hammer Museum, 2021

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


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


Dear Prada,




I hope you’re having a great week. I wanted to introduce myself, I’m Buck Ellison, an artist working with photography and film. I was huge fan of your last campaign and your brand history. I wanted to know if you might be free to set up a call. Thank you for taking the time to read this.




All best,




Buck

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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