CVBoz Deseo Garden








Boz Deseo Garden

(b. 1997)

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

They are represented by Petrine, Paris

Education

2031    PhD, Culture & Theory, University of California, Irvine
2024    MFA, New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2019    BFA, Photography & Media, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Solo and Duo exhibitions

2025    Bodenrader, Chicago, IL, USA (upcoming)
2025    The Virtual Estate of Elena Becher, Liste Art Fair Basel with Petrine, Basel, Switzerland (upcoming)
2025    The Sphinx, Petrine, Paris, France, with Graham Wiebe
2024    The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman, Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2023    Cimiteria, Petrine, Paris, France
2022    Does One Write About An Encounter With Nothing, Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL, USA

Group exhibitions

2025     *NEW* Cosy 1 bed home | Shoreditch | Long stays., Project Space, London, UK
2024     Spectral Fine Arts Trust, Final Hot Desert, London, UK
2023     Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices Responding to Anti-Blackness, Barbara and Art Culver Museum, Riverside, CA, USA
2023    Tabernacle, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022    Cassandra Press : On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2021    Graphite Journal XII, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020    James Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020    ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018    Homecoming, National Occupancy, Public Storage L.A., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Publications

2023    The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse, published by Petrine, Paris, France
2022    Black Tensors: Collected Writings on Afropessimist Semiotics, published by Active Cultures, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022    An Ossuary for the Hunted: Notes on Speech, Anticipation, Christian Animality, and the Uses of Hounds in an Anti-Black World, Cassandra Press
  • 2021   Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal 12th Annual Publication, “Attention/Atencion”,

Lectures/Panel Discussion


  • 2024    Leviathan Playground: A Cassandra Press Workshop led by Boz Deseo Garden and Charlotte Zhang, Heidi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • 2023    Reading, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse (Introduction), tabernacle, FOCA
  • 2023    Panel Discussion, Active Culture’s Epistemic Circularity, The Garden Series
  • 2022    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

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)