Boz Deseo Garden is represented by Petrine, Paris


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




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Published/Commissioned Writings

Book, On the Duty to Disavow: Slavery, Perverse Enjoyment, and the Aesthetics of the Limit (Forthcoming)
Press Release, Galerie Hussenot, Ella Rose Flood’s These Are Just Words You Know the Feeling
Printed Conversation, Salim Green’s Dark Forest Theory, On Repression: An E-mail Correspondence Between Shani Strand and Boz Deseo Garden

Book, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse, Companion Text to Cimiteria for Petrine, Paris

Press Release, M + B Gallery, Tyler Christopher Brown’s This Bitter Earth
Press Release, Micki Meng, Adrian Burrell’s The Game God(s)
Book, Black Tensors: Collected Writings on Afropessimist Semiotics
Essay, Active Cultures, Hunger for the Black Pulsional: The Slave in/as the Libidinal Economy
Essay, 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
Essay, Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal 12th Annual Publication, “Attention/Atencion”,
Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation


Lectures/Panel Discussion


Workshop, Leviathan Playground: A Cassandra Press Workshop led by Boz Deseo Garden and
Charlotte Zhang, Heidi Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Reading, Timeshare, Los Angeles
Reading, The Nocturnal Letter: Blackness, Enjoyment, and the Slave(ry) of Discourse
(Introduction), tabernacle, FOCA, June 2nd
Panel Discussion, Active Culture’s Epistemic Circularity, The Garden Series, Black Tensors: The
Slave in/as the Libidinal Economy
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
Panel Discussion, Archive Machines, Conversations with the Artists, Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery
Q & A with the Artist, Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery


Solo Exhibitions

The Virtual Estate of Roy Hoffman, Timeshare, Los Angeles, February 17th-
March 10th
Cimiteria, Petrine, Paris, FR, June 23rd-August 5th
Does One Write About An Encounter With Nothing, Jargon Projects, Chicago,
August 26th - October 2nd


Group Exhibitions


Trio Exhibition, Boz Deseo Garden, Graham Wiebe, Ella Rose Flood; Final Hot Desert,
London, Forthcoming
Ballast: Recent Aesthetic Practices Responding to Anti-Blackness, Barbara
and Art Culver Museum, Riverside, California November 4th, 2023 - March 15th, 2024
Tabernacle, Aprés-Coup: 6 of 1,400, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, April 15th - June 3rd
Cassandra Press: On Self-Defense – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action,
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, November 2022-April 2023
Hammer Museum, Graphite Journal XII Launch Party/Stream – Video
Performance/Reading of Dark Shimmers: A Politics of Oscillation

ARCHIVE MACHINES, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery – Riotous Folds:
Possibilities for the Document
Public Storage LA, Homecoming, Notional Occupancy