CVBoz Deseo Garden








Boz Deseo Garden lives and works between Los Angeles, California and Paris, France

They are represented by Petrine, Paris


Education

2024    University of California, Los Angeles MFA New Genres 
2019    California Institute of the Arts, BFA Photography & Media 


Published/Commissioned Writing

  • 2024    Book, On the Duty to Disavow: Slavery, Perverse Enjoyment, and the Aesthetics of the Limit (Forthcoming)
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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)