October 9, 2023
Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago
"Notes on Little Brother"
Visiting artist Buck Ellison delivers an in depth presentation on his artistic practice, which broadly investigates the language of privilege through meticulously researched images, and is often executed through staged settings and performative interventions into the visual language of photography.
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. His work produces a deep network of inquiry into how whiteness and privilege are sustained and broadcast. Recent exhibitions include Best Reply, Barbati Gallery, Venice, 2023; 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 Aperture, ArtForum, Art Review, The British Journal of Photography, and The New York Times. His work is in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Presented alongside the Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture