upcoming exhibition
Show Me Your Bruises, Then (2021)
opens Nov 5th
Pérez Art Museum
Miami
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
Pérez Art Museum
Miami
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Maryland
The Jewish Museum
New York City
The Rose Museum
Boston
The Tang Teaching Museum
Skidmore College
The Peabody Essex Museum
Salem
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Show Me Your Bruises, Then
Pérez Art Museum
Miami
November 2026 – May 2027
About
Zoë Buckman (b. 1985 Hackney, East London) is a British, Jewish multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, textiles, lens-based media, ceramics, neon, and painting, exploring themes of Intersectional Feminism, mortality, and equality.
Notable solo shows have included TENDED at Lysles & King NYC, BLOODWORK at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London, Nomi at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, No Bleach Thick Enough, at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, Heavy Rag at Fort Gansevoort Gallery New York, Let Her Rave at Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles, Imprison Her Soft Hand at Project for Empty Space, Newark; Every Curve at PAPILLION ART, Los Angeles; and Present Life at Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York.
NEWS
" Buckman takes issue with that commanding voice, teasing out how patriarchal authority insidiously permeates our ideas of femininity and the ways we practically deal with women’s bodies... [Her works] get at ideas about the feminine — how it is a complex blend of that “soft hand” weaponized when curled into a fist, when imprisoned inside a glove, in those instances when a woman has to fight."
" [A] visceral quality translates across Buckman's use of media... And she addresses fraught topics: giving birth, eventual death; the attack on women's healthcare and Planned Parenthood; the duality in hip-hop's language; existing within a patriarchy... For her, it's about consciousness -specifically, raising it - whether that's through shock, confusion, laughter, silence."
The delightful, pastel and powerful Zoe Buckman, who pounces on the viewer with inexorable feminine observations. It is not just the pronouncement of intertwining the masculine truculent voice metaphorically channeled through boxing gloves..., which makes her work rich and incandescent in its visceral will to achieve the strength and fight of women, but to display that either one or many are powerful; unafraid to be netted together in unity. By the same token, this metaphor conveys the often beaten down quality that women face each day."
