Buck Ellison (b. 1987, San Francisco) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and has been profiled in ArtForum, The New Yorker, and the New York Times.