Buck Ellison
the United States
b.1987
Buck Ellison received a BA in German Literature from Columbia University, New York, in 2010, and an MFA from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main in 2014.
In a variety of media, the artist examines how whiteness is sustained and broadcast. Recent exhibitions include Get In The Game, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2024; Burning Down the House, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2024; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 2024; the 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2022; Whitney Biennial 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art; Made in L.A. 2020, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington Museum, Pasadena, 2021.
His works are in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Princeton University Art Museum; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Ellison has been profiled in Aperture, ArtForum, Art Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
