Buck Ellison

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Buck Ellison
Born1987 (age 37–38)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education Columbia University (BA)
Städelschule (MFA)
Known for Visual arts, Photography
Notable workLiving Trust
Awards Paris Photo–Aperture Best PhotoBook Award (2020)
Website buckellison.com

Buck Ellison (born 1987) [1] is an American visual artist, known for his photography. 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] [2]

Through collages, films, and photographs, he produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. [3] [4]

Ellison has exhibited at The Hammer Museum, [5] [6] and has been in group exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennial, 2022, [7] the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022, [8] Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Huntington Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2020 (cat.), [5] Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018 [9] The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 (cat.) [7] among others.

His work has been reviewed in Aperture , [3] Artforum , [2] ArtReview , the British Journal of Photography , Flash Art , [10] Kaleidoscope, Mousse magazine, The New Yorker , The New York Times, and Texte zur Kunst . [1] [11]

His first monograph, Living Trust, won the Paris Photo-Aperture Best PhotoBook Award 2020. [12]

Collections

His work is in the museum collections of the Aïshti Foundation, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), [13] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. [14]

Bibliography

Awards and recognition

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pinsky, Marina (20 April 2017). "Comfort is Tricky: Marina Pinsky and Buck Ellison". Mousse Magazine.
  2. 1 2 "Openings: Buck Ellison". Artforum . Summer 2017. ISSN   0004-3532.
  3. 1 2 "A Photographer's Canny Investigation of American Privilege". Aperture.org. 30 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Diehl, Travis (2022-06-24). "Buck Ellison's Great White Society". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  5. 1 2 "Buck Ellison | Hammer Museum".
  6. ↑ "Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (Unopened) biennial". Los Angeles Times . 10 November 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Buck Ellison". KunstAspekte.art.
  8. ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept".
  9. ↑ ""Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation" at Kunsthalle Wien — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". 6 February 2019.
  10. ↑ "Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris |". Flash Art. December 17, 2019.
  11. ↑ "What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It". The New Yorker . August 2021.
  12. 1 2 Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (December 5, 2020). "An unlikely portrait of W.A.S.P America". 1854 Photography.
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "Buck Ellison, 1987–". Whitney.org. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
  15. ↑ "Photographer Buck Ellison's Depictions of Wealth in White America". Another Man. April 23, 2020.
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