25F Artist-in-Residence: Joseph Buckley

Artist talk: Tuesday, 9/23 at 4:45 PM. Loew Auditorium, BVAC. Reception to follow.

Joseph Buckley (b. Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom) lives and works in New York City, NY. His work brings a formidable knowledge of science fictional premises, traumas, and catastrophes into uncomfortable proximity with contemporary class and race politics. Through a critical sculptural practice, he foregrounds the violence of fabrication as an analogue for the social reproduction of inequality, bigotry, and ecological collapse. Selected solo projects include Despair Engine at Island Gallery, NYC; Cannibal Galaxies at Specialist Gallery, Seattle, WA; Letter From The Home Office at Lock Up International, London, UK; Traitor Muscle at Art in General, NYC; and Brotherhood Tapestry at the Tetley, Leeds, UK. Selected group exhibitions include "Since when did the streets have mouths?" at Below Grand, NYC; 50 Degrees at KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne, Australia; The Secret Realm of Thrills and Concealment at BROWNIE Project in Shanghai, China; Phantom Sculpture at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK; and Poor Things at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. In 2021 he received a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Buckley has taught in the Sculpture Departments at Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yale School of Art.