Boz Deseo Garden

Boz Deseo Garden (b. 1997) is an artist and theorist working in Los Angeles. Their interdisciplinary practice works within the material and conceptual impasses between Afropessimism and psychoanalysis. Through sculpture, video, and critical writing, Garden positions transatlantic slavery as the unconscious ligature for knowledge production, Western notions of form and matter, and psychoanalytic modes of enjoyment.

Recent exhibitions and workshops include Final Hot Desert, London (2024), Heidi, Berlin ( (2024); Timeshare, Los Angeles (2024); Petrine, Paris (2023); Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2022); and Jargon Projects, Chicago (2022). They received their BFA from California Institute of the Arts and their MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.

Exhibitions with Petrine:

Boz Deseo Garden
Cimiteria
23.06.2023 — 05.08.2023

après-coup 11 of 1,400, 2023
Portland cement, waste incinerator ash, limestone
51.5 x 15 x 15.5 cm

Pale Coast: A Cenotaph, 2022
single channel digital video file, projection, sound
37 minutes, 15 seconds

Drift & Pile: Ash, Anti-Blackness, and Interpretation at the End, 2022

saddle-stitched essay, standardised cremation box

On Self-Defence – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action, 2022, Bergen Kunsthall (installation view)