Buck Ellison

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Buck Ellison (born 1987) [1] is an American visual artist, known for his photography. [2] [3] [4] He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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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]

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Awards and recognition

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  13. "What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It". The New Yorker . August 2021.
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