Buck Ellison

Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco, lives and works in Los Angeles) received a BA in German Literature from Columbia University, New York and an MFA from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

Recent exhibitions include Genuine Fake Economy, ICA London, 2026; Every Good Boy Does Fine, M+M, Hong Kong, 2026; Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, 2025; Post Scriptum: A museum forgotten by heart, MACRO Museum, Rome, 2024; Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2024; Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, 2023; The Horizons: Is there anybody out there?, The Long Museum, Shanghai, 2023; Little Brother, Luhring Augustine, New York, 2023; The 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art: manifesto of fragility, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, 2022; The Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2022; Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and The Huntington Libraries and Museum, Pasadena, 2021; and Antarctica, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2018.

Ellison has been profiled in The Financial Times, Aperture, Artforum, Art Review, The British Journal of Photography, Vogue, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.

His work is in the collections of the Rennie Collection, Vancouver; The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.