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 Petrine, Paris; Project Space, London (2025); Final Hot Desert, London; Heidi, Berlin; Timeshare, Los Angeles (2024); Petrine, Paris; Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2023); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; 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
The Sphinx
08.03.2025 — 26.04.2025

Boz Deseo Garden
Cimiteria
23.06.2023 — 05.08.2023

Boz Deseo Garden
Hartman Avec Sade, 2023
antique copper lightning rod
27.8 x 40.6 cm
Installation view: Project Space, London (2025)

Boz Deseo Garden & Graham Wiebe
The Sphinx, 2025
single channel digital video file, projection, sound, plywood box
film: 24:47 minutes, plywood box: 2.9 x 2.5 x 4 m
Installation view: Petrine, Paris (2025)

Boz Deseo Garden
après-coup 11 of 1,400, 2023
Portland cement, waste incinerator ash, limestone
51.5 x 15 x 15.5 cm each
installation view: Petrine, Paris (2023)

Boz Deseo Garden
Caro, Cathexis, Contraband, 2023
embossed paper, bier pins, steel clamp
110 x 25.4 cm
Installation view: Petrine, Paris (2023)

Boz Deseo Garden
Pale Coast: A Cenotaph, 2022
single channel digital video file, projection, sound 37 minutes, 15 seconds
Installation view: Jargon projects, Chicago (2022)

Boz Deseo Garden
Drift & Pile: Ash, Anti-Blackness, and Interpretation at the End, 2022
saddle-stitched essay, standardised cremation box
Installation view: Jargon projects, Chicago (2022)

Boz Deseo Garden
The Passage, 2022
archival inkjet print, etched acrylic
64.14 x 48.90 cm
Installation view: Jargon projects, Chicago (2022)

Boz Deseo Garden
On Self-Defence – A Cassandra Press Reader In Action
Installation view: Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2022)