Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco, lives and works in Los Angeles) 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 his films and photographs, 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; and Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018.
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 British Journal of Photography, Mousse, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. His first monograph, Living Trust, won the Paris Photo-Aperture Best PhotoBook Award in 2020.
