Jared Buckhiester
"our new-made foretopman", 2021
Charcoal on paper in oak artist frame
Framed: 50 x 37 x 2 ¼ inches (127 x 94 x 6.4 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist

Selected by Hilton Als

Jared Buckhiester (b. 1977, Dahlonega, GA) is a New York-based artist employing drawing, ceramics, and photography in what has been described as “a long-term project of representing beleaguered American masculinity through a gay male lens.” Buckhiester has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues including David Kordansky, Los Angeles (2024); Dunes, Portland, Maine (2023); Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, New York (2021); Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee (2018). His work has been included in notable group exhibitions including elbow fist to make, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Toni Morrison’s Black Book, curated by Hilton Als, David Zwirner, New York (2022); and One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018). His work is in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum, New York. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in New York and his MFA from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York.