Annie Buckley

Annie Buckley is an artist, writer, and educator with an emphasis on art and social justice, and the founder of the Prison Arts Collective. Her writing has appeared in numbers publications including Artforum, Art in America, Artillery, and The Huffington Post. Buckley is the editor of Higher Education and the Carceral State (Routledge, 2024) and the author of three works of fiction, Navigating Ghosts, Psychic Outlaws, and Mayday, published as part of multidisciplinary art projects; and numerous nonfiction books for youth on topics including racism, homelessness, and the arts. Buckley’s visual and participatory art has been included in museum, gallery, and public exhibitions, including at Carl Berg Gallery and Los Angeles International Airport. Buckley has earned numerous grants and awards, including a formal recognition by the California State Senate, Outstanding Professor of CSUSB in 2018–19, and grants from the NEA and the California Arts Council. Buckley is a professor and associate dean at San Diego State University.

Articles

Returning Home: On “Made in L.A. 2023”
Annie Buckley reviews the “Made in L.A. 2023” exhibit at the UCLA Hammer Museum....
Oct 31
- Art
Before Los Angeles Was Los Angeles
THE IRIDESCENCE OF KNOWING, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles, September 14–November 18, 2023. The Iridescence of Knowing at Oxy Arts is quietly radical, but, really, it shouldn’t be quiet or radical to amplify Indigenous voices, perspectives, and movements to reclaim ...
Oct 26
This Play Has Game
MAPPING AN ART WORLD: LOS ANGELES IN THE 1970S-80S, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Los Angeles, June 18, 2023–March 10, 2024. The work included in this exhibit (why must we insist on calling art “work”?) inspires the mindset that ...
Sep 15
This Play Has Game
MAPPING AN ART WORLD: LOS ANGELES IN THE 1970S-80S, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Downtown Los Angeles, June 18, 2023–March 10, 2024. The work included in this exhibit (why must we insist on calling art “work”?) inspires the mindset that ...
Annie BuckleySep 15
The Evolution of Meaning: Adrian Piper and Victor Hugo at the Hammer Museum
In these strange days, art has the ability to help us make meaning of current events and to encourage a certain form of collective voice and action....
Dec 11, 2018
- Art
The Other Side: Radical Women
Annie Buckley views “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985,” an exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (September 15–December 31, 2017)....
Nov 20, 2017
- Art
- Translation
A Meditation on Contemporary Art: “Made in L.A.: a, the, though, only”
Annie Buckley discusses the Hammer Museum’s third iteration of the “Made in L.A.” biennial....
Aug 3, 2016
- Art
A View from Alcatraz: For Ahmed Douma
Since September 2014, Alcatraz has been home to an exciting new exhibition by renowned contemporary artist Ai Weiwei....
Jun 2, 2015
- Art
- Politics and Economics
Around the World (or Part of It) with Sarah Thornton: 33 Artists in 3 Acts
Sarah Thornton's "33 Artists in 3 Acts" introduces readers to dozens of artists and a few curators operating at the upper echelons of the art business....
Apr 15, 2015
- Art
- Biography
Now and Then and Now Again: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
Peter Huyghe’s show at LACMA is closing....
Feb 10, 2015
- Art
Access Is the Enemy of Disparity — But Access to What?
It is clear, from this point of view, that art in and of itself is not liberating; it either is or it isn’t depending on the type of capacity it sets in motion, on the extent to which its nature ...
Jul 24, 2014