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