’s (b. 1977, Dahlonega, Georgia) art-making process is led—first and foremost—by intuition. Beginning with drawing in which certain forms, shapes, and gestures are revisited, Buckhiester moves to other materials. Working across mediums, often at the same time, an inherent relationship is forged between the ceramic sculptures, drawings, and paintings that are at the core of Buckhiester’s practice. The resulting images live as fragments of a larger story, one which is never complete. In this way, the installation and presentation of Buckhiester’s work are as important as each individual artwork so that the elements present in a sculpture can stand in for things left absent in a painting. His ceramic sculptures, which predominantly consist of separate parts—a base, legs, a torso, and head—are pieced together like interchangeable parts of a collage until they find their final form. In the same way a story is told slightly differently each time it’s recounted, Buckhiester’s works are exercises in repetitive expressions, yielding new and surprising outcomes with each gesture and each application of glaze, charcoal, or paint. For Buckhiester, art is as much a reflection of the artist’s interior world as it is of their exterior conditions and associations, both known and unknown.
Buckhiester has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues including Dunes, Portland, ME (2023); Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York, NY (2021); Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN (2018). His work has been included in notable group exhibitions including The Writing’s on the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts (curated by Hilton Als), Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (2024–2025); 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 , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2018). His work is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and his MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Buckhiester lives and works in New York.
