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