Boz Deseo Garden is represented by Petrine, Paris

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


Published/Commissioned Work
2024Book, On the Duty to Disavow: Slavery, Perverse Enjoyment, and the Aesthetics of the Limit (Forthcoming)
2023Press Release, Galerie Hussenot, Ella Rose Flood’s These Are Just Words You Know the Feeling
2023Printed Conversation, Salim Green’s Dark Forest Theory, “On Repression: An E-mail Correspondence Between Shani Strand and Boz Deseo Garden”
2023Book, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse, Companion Text to Cimiteria for Petrine, Paris
2023Press Release, M + B Gallery, Tyler Christopher Brown’s This Bitter Earth
2023Press Release, Micki Meng, Adrian Burrell’s The Game God(s)
2023Book, Black Tensors: Collected Writings on Afropessimism & Semiotics
2023Essay, Active Cultures, Hunger for the Black Pulsional: The Slave in/as the Libidinal Economy
2022Essay, Cassandra Press Zine Series, An Ossuary for the Hunted: Notes on Speech, Anticipation, Christian Animality, and the Uses of Hounds in an Anti-Black World
2021Essay, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal 12th Annual Publication, “Attention/Atencion”, Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation
Lectures/Panel Discussion
2024Reading, Timeshare, Los Angeles
2023Reading, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse (Introduction), tabernacle, FOCA, June 2nd
2023Panel Discussion, Active Culture’s Epistemic Circularity, The Garden Series, Black Tensors: The Slave in/as the Libidinal Economy
2022Academic 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
2020Panel Discussion, Archive Machines, Conversations with the Artists, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2020Q & A with the Artist, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
2024Solo Exhibition, The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman, Timeshare, Los Angeles, February 17th- March 10th
2023Group Exhibition, Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices Responding to Anti-Blackness, Barbara and Art Culver Museum, Riverside, California November 4th, 2023 - March 15th, 2024
2023Solo Exhibition, Cimiteria, Petrine, Paris, FR, June 23rd-August 5th
2023Group Exhibition, tabernacle, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 15th - June 3rd
2022Group Exhibition, Cassandra Press: On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, November 2022-April 2023
2022Solo Exhibition, Does One Write About An Encounter With Nothing, Jargon Projects, Chicago, August 26th - October 2nd
2021Group Exhibition, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal XII Launch Party/Stream – Video Performance/Reading of Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation
2020Group Exhibition, James Hormel LGBT Center Radar Productions Fellow – Video Performance
2020Group Exhibition, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery
2018Group Exhibition, Homecoming, Public Storage L.A. Gallery Group Show 
Teaching & Awards
2023Seminar, Living Hell: On Anti-Blackness, Psychoanalysis, and Capitalism (with Kristofor Giordano)
2023Seminar, Film in/as Faith: Film Theory and Philosophy (with TJ Shin)
2022Seminar, Animacies: Environmental Inhumanities Through Critical Race, Disability, & Queer Studies (with TJ Shin, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, and Cielo Saucedo)