American artist
Buck Ellison (born 1987)
[1] is an American
visual artist , known for his photography.
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[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.
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Through collages, films, and photographs, he produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast.
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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 .
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His first monograph, Living Trust , won the Paris Photo-Aperture Best PhotoBook Award 2020.
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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 .
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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)
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Awards and recognition
References
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d Pinsky, Marina (20 April 2017).
"Comfort is Tricky: Marina Pinsky and Buck Ellison" . Mousse Magazine and Publishing .
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b Diehl, Travis (2022-06-24).
"Buck Ellison's Great White Society" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-11-05 .
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"Photographer Buck Ellison's Depictions of Wealth in White America" . Another Man . April 23, 2020.
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c Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (December 5, 2020).
"An unlikely portrait of W.A.S.P America" . 1854 Photography .
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"Openings: Buck Ellison" .
Artforum . Summer 2017.
ISSN
0004-3532 .
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"A Photographer's Canny Investigation of American Privilege" . Aperture.org . 30 March 2022.
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"Buck Ellison | Hammer Museum" .
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"Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (Unopened) biennial" .
Los Angeles Times . 10 November 2020.
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"Buck Ellison" . KunstAspekte.art .
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"Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept" .
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" "Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation" at Kunsthalle Wien — Mousse Magazine and Publishing" . 6 February 2019.
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"Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris |" . Flash Art . December 17, 2019.
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"What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It" .
The New Yorker . August 2021.
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"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 .
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"Buck Ellison, 1987–" . Whitney.org . Retrieved 2022-11-05 .