Born 1970, Derek Buckner currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, the novelist

Joanna Hershon and their three children. He is currently represented by the George Billis Gallery in New York and Los Angeles and Sugarlift Gallery in New York


EDUCATION:

Laguardia High School of Music and Art

Vassar College

The Art Students League of New York

B.F.A., The School of the Art institute of Chicago

Boston Museum School: stone carving Program, Carrara, Italy


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2023: "Divergent Paths" Anita Shapolsky Gallery NY,NY

2022: "Industrial Beauty" George Billis Gallery, New York

2020: "Watercolors" George Billis Gallery, New York

2019: "New Paintings" George Billis Gallery, New York

2018: "New Paintings" George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2016: "New Paintings" George Billis Gallery, New York

2015: "Expanses" George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2014: New Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York

2013:Art In Embassies Project, American Embassy in The Gambia

2012:City Views, George Billis Gallery, New York

2011:Recent Paintings , George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2010:Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York

New Paintings, Miami-Dade Public library, Florida

2009:Marshmallows, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

Recent paintings, Craven Gallery Marthas Vineyard MA

2008:Marshmallows, George Billis Gallery, New York

UFO Series, Slocumb Gallery, East Tennessee State University

2007: Works on Paper, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2006:Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York

American Perspectives, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles

2005: Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York

New Works, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ

Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY

Carol Craven Gallery, Marthas Vineyard, MA

2004: Recent Paintings, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2002: Recent Paintings, Carol Craven Gallery, Marthas Vineyard MA

2001: Fast Enough To Catch It, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:


2023: Art on Paper art Fair pier 36, NY George Billis Gallery

2019:Four Contemporary Realist Painters, The Patricia Nugent Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont PA

2018: Escape, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

2017: Summer in The City, George Billis Gallery, NY

2016: "The Painted Landscape" Heritage Museum and Gardens, Sandwich, Massachusetts

2016: "Realism: a Survey" Gerald Peters Gallery, NY

2013: Summer in The City, George Billis Gallery, NY

2012: "Still life in The 20th Century" Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland

2011: Recent Work. Pamela Williams Gallery. Amagansett, NY

Gallery Artists, Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

Summer in The City, George Billis Gallery, NY

2010:Group Show, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton FL

Group Show, George Billis Gallery , NY

Land and Sea, Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY

Carol Craven Gallery, Marthas Vineyard, MA

2009: The Open West. Cheltenham Museum, Gloucestershire, UK

Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, NY

Garish, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

Art Discovery in Seoul, A&C Art Fair Seoul Korea

Mixed Greens” Parish Art Museum online exhibition, South Hampton, NY

"What's the Rush Topics on Convenience", Cal State Fullerton,CSU, CA

Positive/Negative 24 Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Slocumb Gallery, ETSU, TN

The Open West. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK

A&C Art Fair, Seoul Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

The Concept of Contemporary Art, Meepyung Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2008: The Circular Exhibition, Hun Gallery, NY, Ho Gallery, Seoul, Korea

New Life Visuals, New Life Shop, Berlin

small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Pulse Art Fair NY, Saatchi online

“Art For the Arts” curated by Laurel Bysonette, Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

Texas National 08, The Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University Texas

(juror-Roger Shimomura)

3rd Annual Human Rights Exhibition, 2008 Juried Traveling show, South Texas

College, Progreso Art Gallery, Mexico,University of Texas Pan American, University of

Monterrey, Mexico

It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY

2007:

Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York

Shore Scenes, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ

2005:

Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Recent Acquisitions, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art Scarsdale, NY

2004:

NY Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery,Curator Charlotta Kotik (Brooklyn Museum)

Out East, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ

2003:

Small Packages, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art Scarsdale, NY

Recent Paintings, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

Urban Pastoral, McGrath Galleries, New York, NY

Recent Landscape Paintings, Laurel Tracey Galleries Red Bank, NJ

2002:

New Paintings, Lizan Tops Gallery, Armory Show, NY

Recent Paintings, Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ

A Summer Place, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art Scarsdale, NJ

2001:

Recent Painting: Carol Craven Gallery, Marthas Vineyard MA

2000:

Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Group Show, Carol Craven Gallery, Marthas Vineyard MA

1998:

Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Galleria de Todos Santos, Todos Santos, Mexico

1997:

Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York

Jack Meier Gallery, Houston Texas, Group Show

Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

1996:

Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, Illinois


PUBLICATIONS and PRESS:


Art and Antiques: May 2023

The Darienite: 2022

Brooklyn Eagle: "Gowanus Revisited" 2022

Diattart: Artist of the Moment, 2021

American Art Collector: April 2018

Painting Perceptions: Interview with Derek Buckner, 2017

Image Journal: Seven Years in Chelsea, 2017

American Art Collector: April 2016, “ Industry and Nature Unite,”

Arts & Food Blog: 2016, City Views

“Painted Landscapes, Contemporary Views”, Schiffer publishing house, 2013

"Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition" Michel Petry, London Museum of Contemporary Art Director, Thames and Hudson.

Washington Herald Mail "An artist creates his own world" November 11, 2012 | Washington

County Museum of Fine Arts. by Rebecca Massie Lane, director of Washington County Museum of Fine Arts

Wall Street Journal: "Diving into the Gowanus," by Lizzie Simon, April 2012

American Art Collector: May 2012, "Derek Buckner, Industrial Brooklyn"

George Washington Literary Review Jan 2012

Art Stormer: Light as a Feather, 2011

Flavorpill: 2010, May 20th

The New York Sun: When Marshmallows are the Muse: Chat with the artist, By Lizzie Simon 2010

Flavorpill: 2009, August 29th

Flavorpill: 2008, October 4th

Saatchi Gallery: March 26, 2008 Daily Magazine Blog

Lillies, Cannonballs Review, winter 2008

Making America, Volume 2, (Cover), 2007

Folio Journal, winter 2007

The New Yorker Sept 2006, (short review)

New York Times Jan 27th, 2002

New York Sun July 20th, 2006

The New York Post March 26th, 2005

The New Yorker, March, 2005

The LA Times, 2005

The New York Observer, Feb 15th, 2004

Santa Fe Paseo Tiempo

Tameme Literary Journal

Poetry Magazine

Conde Nast Traveler


AWARDS & MENTIONS:

2011 Dave Brown Projects Semi Anual Art Competition Finalist

2009 Artslant online jurried showcase winner

2008 Pulse Art Fair New York,

Saatchi online booth, 69th Regiment Armory

2007 Art-online competition (honorable mention)

2007 Wooloo special exhibition – Selection for New Life Visuals 08, New Life Shop ?2007

Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, Dec 1st,“Top Ten Exhibition Picks”


SELECTED CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

US Department of State

Stowers Institute Kirkland & Ellis Law Firm

Verizon

Pfizer

The Kellogg Group

Downtown Associates

MTC Financial Holdings

Clark and Weinstock

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Duane and Jill Meltzer

Rufus Wainwright

Virginia and Norton Mailman

Roger and Carolyn Mansell

Guillermo Sallis

Fernando Sallis

Adam Silver

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Enders

Maureen and Marshall Cogan

Mr. and Mrs. John Watts

Mr. Robert Mertz

Mr. Dan Rizzie

Mr. and Mrs. Otis Pearsall

Mrs. Bunny Dell

Mr. and Mrs. Denis Krieger

Mrs. Lori Bookstein

Davis and Betsy Weinstock

Mr. Dan Shedrick

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Roosevelt

Ken and Abbey Colen

Catherine Mayo

Hugh and Suzanne Weissman

Nicholas Weinstock