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DEREK BUCKNER

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

2019  Gowanus Cityscapes, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2018  New Paintings, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016  New Cityscapes, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
​2015  Expanses, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012  City Views, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011  Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010  Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2009  New Paintings, Miami-Dade Public Library, FL
2009  Marshmallows, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009  Recent Paintings, Craven Gallery,Martha's Vineyard, MA
2008  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2008  Slocumb Gallery, East TEnnessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2007  Works on Paper, George Bilis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006  Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2006  American Perspectives, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005  Recent Paintings, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2005  New Works, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ
2005  Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2005  Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA 
2004  Recent Paintings, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2002  Recent Paintings, Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2001  Fast Enough To Catch It, Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013  Art In Embassies Project, American Embassy in The Gambia
2013  The Cityscape Show III, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013  Colorful Antics, Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013  In The City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2011  Recent Work, Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY
2011  Gallery Artists, Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2011  The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, NY
2009  The Open West, Cheltenham Museum, Gloucestershire, UK
2009  Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, NY
2009  Garish, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2009  Art Discovery in Seoul, A&C Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2009  Mixed Green, Parish Art Museum online exhibition, Southampton, NY
2009  What's the Rush? Topics of Convenience, Cal State Fullerton, CA ETSU, TN
2009  The Concept of Contemporary Art, Meepyung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2008  New Life Visuals, New Life Shop, Berlin, Germany
2008  Pulse Art Fair NY, Saatchi online
2008  Texas National 08, The Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University Texas 
          (juror - Roger Shimomura)
2008  3rd Annual Human RIghts Exhibition, 2008 Juried Traveling show South Texas College      
          Progreso Art Gallery, Mexico, University of Texas Pan American, University of Monterrey
2008  It's Gouache and Gouache Only, Andrea Meislin Gallery, NY
2007  Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2007  Shore Scenes, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ
2005  Group Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005  Recent Acquisitions, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2004  NY Juried Exhibition, Viridian Gallery, Curator Charlotta Kotik (Brooklyn Museum) 
2004  Out East, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ
2003  Small Packages, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2003  Recent Paintings, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2003  Urban Pastoral, McGrath Galleries, New York, NY
2003  Recent Landscape Paintings, Laurel Tracey Galleries, Red Bank, NJ
2002  New Paintings, Lizan Tops Gallery, Armory Show, NY
2002  Recent Paintings, Laurel Tracey Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2002  A Summer Place, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NJ
2001  Recent Painting: Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
2000  Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2000  Carol Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA
1998  Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York, NY
1998  Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1998  Galleria de Todos Santos, Todos Santos, Mexico
1997  Catherine Dail Fine Art, New York, NY
1997  Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX
1997  Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1996  Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL

PUBLISHED IMAGES
Lillies, Cannonballs Review, Winter 2008
Folio, A Literary Journal at American University, Winter 2008
Making America, Volume 2, (Cover), 2007

PRESS
American Art Collector: April 2014
American Art Collector: May 2012, "Derek Buckner, Industrial Brooklyn."
Daily News, April 2012: HIS BRUSH WITH BROOKLYN. 
Wall Street Journal: "Diving into the Gowanus," by Lizzie Simon, April, 2012.
George Washington Literary Review, January, 2012.
Flavorpill: 2010, May 20th.
The New York Sun: When Marshmallows are the Muse: Chat with the artist, By Lizzie Simon 
Flavorpill: 2009, August 29th.
Flavorpill: 2008, October 4th.
NY Magazine Vulture: 2008, Artist Derek Buckner on Painting Marshmallows, Emma Pearse.
Saatchi Online: March 26, 2008, Daily Magazine Blog.
Lillies and Cannonballs: Volume 3, Number 2, 2008.
American Art Collector: Septmenber, 2008, "Derek Buckner: Cities of consumption."
Spray Blog: Spraygraphic November 7 2007 interview with Derek Buckner.
Saatchi Online: December 1, 2007, Daily Magazine Blog, "Top Ten Exhibition Picks."
Saatchi Gallery: September 2006, Tanya Larkin interview with Derek Buckner.
The New Yorker: September 2006, Goings On About Town; short review.
The New Yorker: March 21, 2005.
East Hampton Star: November 3, 2005.
The New Yorker: March 21, 2005 Derek Buckner "Precisely observed rooftop views of New York that bring to mind muddied, modern-day Canalettos. A series of smaller paintings of panel-sided trucks make the planes and blocks of color even more defined."
The Hub Paper: November 17, 2004: Landscape paintings at Laurel Tracey Gallery.
The New York Times: By Helen A.Harrison, September 12, 2004, Art Reviews; Of Marshes, Coastal Inlets And Zippers Buried in Latex.
East Hampton Star: The Arts, July 8, 2004. By Robert Long, Opinion: Ceramics, Glass, And Abstraction; Whimsy and the fantastic at Canio's, Lizan Tops.
Los Angeles Times: Joe Cummings, "Disappearing Into Todos Santos," February, 2004.
East Hampton Star: The Arts. By Rose C.S. Slivka, From the Studio, June 26, 2003.
Vassar Quarterly: Summer 2002.
The New York Times: By Phyllis Braff, December 24, 2000, Art Reviews; Probing the Mysteries Behind Mexican Masks.
Tameme: journal of new writing from North America - Canada, the US and Mexico. #1
The Premier Issue 1998.
Poetry Magazine: David Yezzi. Short Reviews. Cover By Derek Buckner, 1997.
Art Scene: The Guide to Art Galleries and Museums in Southern California February.
East Hampton Star: The Arts. By Sheridan Sansegundo Opinion: Bold Colors, Bolder Variety A cheery holiday show at Lizan Tops.
East Hampton Star: The Arts. October, 18, 2001, Mystery and Skyline. By Robert Long
Conde Nast Traveler, September, 2007.
Folio Journal, Winter, 2007.
The New Yorker, September, 2006.
The New York Post, March 26th, 2005.
The LA Times, March 17th, 2002.
New York Times, January 27th, 2002.
Tameme Literary Journal, 1998.
Santa Fe Paseo Tiempo, 1997.
Poetry Magazine, 1998, 1996.

AWARDS/MENTIONS
2011 Dave Brown Projects Semi Annual Art Competition Finalist
2009 Artslant online juried showcase winner
2008 Pulse Art Fair New York, Saatchi online booth, 69th Regiment Armory
2007 Art-Interview Online Magazine: Art Interview International Online Artist Competition 2007
        Official Recognition of Merit
2007 Art-online Competition (Honorable Mention)
2007 Wooloo special Exhibition - Selection for New Life Visuals 2008, New Life Shop, Berlin
2007 Saatchi Online Daily Magazine, Dec 1st, "Top Ten Exhibition Picks"

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
US Department of State
Stowers Institute
Kirkland & Ellis Law Firm
Verizon
Pfiezer
The Kellogg Group
Downtown Associates
MTC Financial Holdings
Clark and Weinstock








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