Buck Ellison

Buck Ellison
Born1987 (age 38–39)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education
Known forVisual arts, Photography
Notable workLiving Trust
AwardsParis Photo–Aperture Best PhotoBook Award (2020)
Websitebuckellison.com

Buck Ellison (born 1987) is an American visual artist, known for his conceptual photography. Through collages, films, and photographs, he interrogates the methods through which whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Early life and education

Buck Ellison was born in San Francisco, California, in 1987 and grew up in Marin County. He attended Marin Academy, an independent college-preparatory school in San Rafael. Ellison has said that growing up within one of the wealthiest communities in the United States later became central to his artistic practice, explaining that he "wouldn't be able to make [his] critiques" without having been raised in the social world his photographs examine.

Ellison studied German Literature at Columbia University, graduating in 2010. He then received an MFA degree from the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in 2014, studying in the class of Willem de Rooij. His fellow students included Anne Imhof, Julien Nguyen, and Evelyn Taocheng Wang.

Career

Ellison's first monograph, Living Trust, won the Paris Photo-Aperture Best PhotoBook Award 2020.

Ellison has been the subject of long-form profiles in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Financial Times His work has also been reviewed in Aperture, Artforum, ArtReview, British Journal of Photography, Flash Art, Frieze, L'Uomo Vogue, Mousse, and Texte zur Kunst.

Exhibitions

Collections

Ellison's work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including:

Awards and recognition

Bibliography

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Diehl, Travis (June 24, 2022). "Buck Ellison's Great White Society". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 17, 2022. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
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  5. ↑ "Graduates of the Städelschule 2014". Artmap/MMK Frankfurt. Archived from the original on May 25, 2025. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  6. 1 2 Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (December 5, 2020). "An unlikely portrait of W.A.S.P America". 1854 Photography. Archived from the original on March 25, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  7. ↑ Wiley, Chris (August 1, 2021). "What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It". The New Yorker. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 6, 2026. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  8. ↑ Cahill, James. "Artist Buck Ellison on his skewed visions of America's super-rich". Financial Times.
  9. ↑ "Buck Ellison Balice Hertling / Paris |". Flash Art. December 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ "GAG". George Eastman Museum. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
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  12. ↑ "Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture". SFMOMA. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
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  15. ↑ "Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart". MACRO. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family". Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  17. 1 2 "Buck Ellison: Little Brother". Luhring Augustine. Archived from the original on February 7, 2025. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  18. ↑ "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  19. ↑ "manifesto of fragility". eFlux. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  20. ↑ "Buck Ellison | Hammer Museum". Archived from the original on May 7, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
  21. ↑ "manifesto of fragility". eFlux. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  22. ↑ "The Sun Placed in the Abyss". Columbus Museum of Art. Retrieved July 27, 2026.
  23. ↑ "Buck Ellison: Rain in Rifle Season". Carnegie Museum of Art. Archived from the original on July 22, 2026. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  24. ↑ "The Prince Children, Holland, Michigan, 1975". Hammer Museum. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  25. ↑ "Buck Ellison: Mama, 2016". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Archived from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved September 25, 2022.
  26. ↑ "Buck Ellison". MOCA. Archived from the original on July 22, 2026. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  27. ↑ "Monday Morning, 990-PF Nonexempt Charitable Trust Treated as a Private Foundation, Phoenix-Seneca Growth Fund, Gray Sweatpants, 2003, 2021". Princeton University Art Museum. Retrieved July 22, 2026.
  28. ↑ "Buck Ellison, 1987–". Whitney.org. Archived from the original on November 5, 2022. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
  29. ↑ "Photographer Buck Ellison's Depictions of Wealth in White America". Another Man. April 23, 2020. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2022.