Buck Ellison
the United States
1987
Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BA in German Literature from Columbia University and an MFA from the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.
Recent exhibitions include Genuine Fake Premium Economy, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2026); Get in the Game, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2025); Burning Down the House, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2024); the 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art (2023); Whitney Biennial 2022; and Made in L.A. 2020. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Carnegie Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ellison's practice has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtReview, Financial Times, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
