Education
He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University University of Iowa, Bard College and the Whitney Museum"s Independent Study Program.
He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the University University of Iowa, Bard College and the Whitney Museum"s Independent Study Program.
Utilizing photography, film, video, audio, writing and drawing his work questions the role that social memory plays in contemporary life. By examining ways that the past appears in the present Buckingham also scrutinizes the power and effects of historical representation. His projects work with space, real and imaginary, to create physical and social contexts where viewers are encouraged to question received ideas—often the things that are most familiar.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, New New York
Glassel School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Camden Arts Centre, London.
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas. Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee.
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon.
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid.
Hamburger Bahnhof, National Gallery, Berlin. Lunds Konsthall, Lund.
Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center, New New York
Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis.
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. The Kitchen, New New York
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster. Kunstmuseum Saint Gallen.
He participated in the 2006 Liverpool Biennial and the The Third Guangzhou Triennial in 2008.
He is represented by Murray Guy, New New York He was a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service Artist-in-Berlin Program, 2003. Recipient of the Freund Fellowship, Washington University, Saint Louis, 2004.
Artist-in-Residence at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2006.
Resident of the IASPIS program, Stockholm, 2007. Artist-in-Residence at Artpace, San Antonio, 2007 and recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award, 2009.
