Buck Ellison (born 1987) is an American

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, known for his photography. He lives and works in

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Biography

Buck Ellison was born in 1987 in

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. He received a BA degree in

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from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, in 2010; and an MFA degree from the

Städelschule The Städelschule (), Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual a ...

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in 2014. Through collages, films, photographs, he produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. Ellison has exhibited at the The Hammer Museum, and has been in group exhibitions including the 16th Lyon Biennial, 2022, the

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition ...

, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2022, ''Made in L.A. 2020: a version'', The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Huntington Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2020 (cat.), ''Antarctica'', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018 ''The Sun Placed In The Abyss'', Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 2016 (cat.) among others. His work has been reviewed in ''

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'', the '' British Journal of Photography'', ''

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'', ''Kaleidoscope'', ''Mousse'' magazine, ''

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, and ''

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

Collections

His work is in the museum collections of the Aïshti Foundation,

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 196 ...

(LACMA), and the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

Bibliography

* 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)

Awards and recognition

Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

, first PhotoBook winner (2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ellison, Buck American artists Columbia University alumni 1987 births Living people Artists from Los Angeles Artists from San Francisco Städelschule alumni