“Goodnight Little House,” 2025, plastic, MDF, paint, LED lights, 13.125 × 25 × 25 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Joseph Buckley
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Joseph Buckley (b. Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom) lives and works in New York City. 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 Window of Appearances at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; Despair Engine at Island Gallery, New York; Cannibal Galaxies at Specialist Gallery, Seattle; Letter From The Home Office at Lock Up International, London; Traitor Muscle at Art in General, New York; and Brotherhood Tapestry at the Tetley (Yorkshire Contemporary), Leeds.
Selected group exhibitions include Since when did the streets have mouths? at Below Grand, New York; 50 Degrees at KINGS Artist-Run, Melbourne; The Secret Realm of Thrills and Concealment at BROWNIE Project, Shanghai; Phantom Sculpture at Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, United Kingdom; Poor Things at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Friends & Family at Anton Kern Gallery, New York; and Trouble in Outer Heaven: Portable Ops Plus at Southwark Park Gallery, London.
In 2021, Buckley received a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. In 2025, he was invited to be artist-in-residence at Dartmouth College. Buckley teaches in the Sculpture departments at Brooklyn College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yale School of Art.
Selected works
“Mummy Brown,” 2023, plastic, paint, MDF, 14.75 × 10.5 × 10.5 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Peasant,” 2024, plastic, paint, MDF, clothes, 21.5 × 44 × 62 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“The Harrowing of Hell,” 2025, plastic, paint, MDF, LED lights, 25 × 25.5 × 59.75 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Egg of the World,” 2024, plastic, MDF, paint, 9.375 × 8.75 × 11.25 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Crystal Landlord,” 2023, plastic, paint, MDF, 81.875 × 42.75 × 52.375 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Family in the Earth,” 2025, plastic, MDF, paint, fiberglass, reclaimed institutional aluminum enclosed bulletin board, 19 × 58.25 × 82 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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