The Spring 2025 Graduate Art guest lecture series, organized by Jack Bankowsky

Jared Buckhiester

This event is free & open to the public. RSVP’s are not required.

See the full Spring 2025 Seminar schedule here.

Jared Buckhiester (b. 1977, Dahlonega, Georgia) is a New York-based artist whose 20-year output spans ceramic sculpture, drawing, painting, video, and photography. Interrogating masculine codes in imaginings by turns monstrous and quietly intimate, Buckhiester’s art is marked by its formal inventiveness and poetic nuance. Writing on the occasion of his 2024 solo, No heaven, no how, at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curator Hilton Als noted that “the shapes, the colors, the gestalt—made for a thrilling viewing experience, one that seemed to spring, full blown, from a distinctly queer mind that knew itself, inside and out.”

Previous solo exhibitions include A Game For the Living, Dunes, Portland, ME (2023); too fair-spoken man, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York, NY (2021); What's Gone With That Boy I Wonder, Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (2018); and Love Me Tender (curated by David Getsy), BGSQD, New York, NY (2017). His work has also been featured in the group exhibitions: elbow fist to make, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Toni Morrison’s Black Book (curated by Hilton Als), David Zwirner, New York, NY (2022); and One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2018). Buckhiester received a BFA from Pratt Institute (New York, NY) and an MFA from Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), and has attended residencies at Lighthouse Works (NY), Denniston Hill (NY), and Millay Colony (NY). The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, holds a drawing by the artist in its collection.

Image credits: Photo by Rivkah Gevinson, courtesy of the artist.

Support for this series is generously provided by the following: Jack Shear, Brenda R. Potter, Brendan Dugan, Lisson Gallery, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Sprüth Magers, BLUM, Hannah Hoffman, Alan Hergott, and David Kordansky

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.