Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco) received a BA in German Literature from Columbia University, New York, in 2010, and an MFA from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main 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 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Huntington, Pasadena; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Index Art Foundation, Stockholm; The Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Musée d’art contemporarien Lyon, MMK Frankfurt; and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Recent exhibitions include 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 Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2021; and Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018.
His films and photographs 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, and The Whitney Museum of American Art
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