Buck Ellison (born 1987)[1] is an American visual artist, known for his photography.[2][3][4] He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Biography
Buck Ellison was born in 1987 in San Francisco, California.[1] He received a BA degree in German literature from Columbia University, in 2010; and an MFA degree from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2014.[1][5]
Through collages, films, and photographs, he produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast.[6][2]
Ellison has exhibited at The Hammer Museum,[7][8] and has been in group exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennial, 2022,[9] the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022,[10] Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Huntington Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2020 (cat.)[7], Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018[11] The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 (cat.)[9] among others.
His work has been reviewed in Aperture,[6] Artforum,[5] ArtReview, the British Journal of Photography, Flash Art,[12] Kaleidoscope, Mousse magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Texte zur Kunst.[1][13]
His first monograph, Living Trust, won the Paris Photo-Aperture Best PhotoBook Award 2020.[4]
Collections
His work is in the museum collections of the Aïshti Foundation, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA),[14], Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[15]
Bibliography
- Abudu, KJ, “Photography Report: Imaging Racial Capital,”, e-flux, 25 April 2023.
- Packard, Cassie, "Buck Ellison Meets Prince," Art Review, 24 April 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.
- Living Trust, Loose Joints, 2020 (monograph)[3]
Awards and recognition
- Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award, first PhotoBook winner (2020)[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 Pinsky, Marina (20 April 2017). "Comfort is Tricky: Marina Pinsky and Buck Ellison". Mousse Magazine and Publishing.
- 1 2 Diehl, Travis (2022-06-24). "Buck Ellison's Great White Society". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
- 1 2 "Photographer Buck Ellison's Depictions of Wealth in White America". Another Man. April 23, 2020.
- 1 2 3 Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (December 5, 2020). "An unlikely portrait of W.A.S.P America". 1854 Photography.
- 1 2 "Openings: Buck Ellison". Artforum. Summer 2017. ISSN 0004-3532.
- 1 2 "A Photographer's Canny Investigation of American Privilege". Aperture.org. 30 March 2022.
- 1 2 "Buck Ellison | Hammer Museum".
- ↑ "Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (Unopened) biennial". Los Angeles Times. 10 November 2020.
- 1 2 "Buck Ellison". KunstAspekte.art.
- ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept".
- ↑ ""Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation" at Kunsthalle Wien — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". 6 February 2019.
- ↑ "Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris |". Flash Art. December 17, 2019.
- ↑ "What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It". The New Yorker. August 2021.
- ↑ "Mama Edition: AP 1/2 + edition of 3 Buck Ellison (United States, San Francisco, born 1987, active Los Angeles)". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 25 September 2022.
- ↑ "Buck Ellison, 1987–". Whitney.org. Retrieved 2022-11-05.