They are represented by Petrine, Paris
Education
2031 Univeristy of California, Irvine, PhD, Culture & Theory Program
2024 University of California, Los Angeles MFA New Genres
2019 California Institute of the Arts, BFA Photography & Media
Published/Commissioned Writing
- 2025 Reader, Barroco Negre or the Uneven Pearl of Slavery: A Reader by Boz Deseo Garden
- 2023 Press Release, Galerie Hussenot, Ella Rose Flood’s These Are Just Words You Know the Feeling
- 2023 Printed Conversation, Salim Green’s Dark Forest Theory, On Repression: An E-mail Correspondence Between Shani Strand and Boz Deseo Garden
- 2023 Book, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse, Companion Text to Cimiteria for Petrine, Paris
- 2023 Press Release, M + B Gallery, Tyler Christopher Brown’s This Bitter Earth
- 2023 Press Release, Micki Meng, Adrian Burrell’s The Game God(s)
- 2023 Book, Black Tensors: Collected Writings on Afropessimist Semiotics
- 2023 Essay, Active Cultures, Hunger for the Black Pulsional: The Slave in/as the Libidinal Economy
- 2022 Essay, Cassandra Press Zine Series, An Ossuary for the Hunted: Notes on Speech, Anticipation, Christian Animality, and the Uses of Hounds in a Anti-Black World
- 2021 Essay, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal 12th Annual Publication, “Attention/Atencion”, Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation
Lectures/Panel Discussion
- 2024 Workshop, Leviathan Playground: A Cassandra Press Workshop led by Boz Deseo Garden and Charlotte Zhang, Heidi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Reading, Timeshare, Los Angeles
- 2023 Reading, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse (Introduction), tabernacle, FOCA, June 2nd
- 2023 Panel Discussion, Active Culture’s Epistemic Circularity, The Garden Series
- 2022 Academic Conference, UC Irvine’s 16th Annual Comparative Literature Conference: Consummatum Est; Discourses of the End, Drift & Pile: Ash, Antiblackness, and Interpretation, University of California Irvine
- 2020 Panel Discussion, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery , Conversations with the Artists
- 2020 Q & A, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Solo Exhibitions
- 2025 Bodenrader, Chicago, Forthcoming
- 2024 The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman, Timeshare, Los Angeles, February 17th - March 10th
- 2023 Cimiteria, Petrine, Paris, France, June 23rd - August 5th
- 2022 Does One Write About An Encounter With Nothing, Jargon Projects, Chicago, August 26th - October 2nd
Group Exhibitions
2025 Two-Person Exhibition, Boz Deseo Garden & Graham Wiebe; Petrine, Paris, Forthcoming
- 2025 *New* cosy I bed home | Shoreditch | Long Stays, Project Space, London, January 16th - March 9th
- 2025 1 TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025, Curated by Keith J. Varadi, Leroy’s, Los Angeles, January 11th - February 15th
- 2024 Spectral Fine Arts of Trust, Final Hot Desert, October 5th - November 23rd
- 2023 Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices Responding to Anti-Blackness, Barbara and Art Culver Museum, Riverside, California November 4th, 2023 - March 15th, 2024
- 2023 Tabernacle, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 15th - June 3rd
- 2022 Cassandra Press: On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, November 2022 - April 2023
- 2021 Graphite Journal XII Launch, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
- 2020 ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, July 30th - December 31st
- 2020 James Hormel LGBT Center Fellows Presentation, San Francisco, March 1st - April 1st
Teaching Experience
- 2023 Seminar, Living Hell: On Anti-Blackness, Psychoanalysis, and Capitalism
- 2023 Seminar, Film in/as Faith: Film Theory and Philosophy (with TJ Shin)
- 2022 Seminar, Animacies: Environmental Inhumanities Through Critical Race, Disability, & Queer Studies (with TJ Shin, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, and Cielo Saucedo)