Boz Deseo Garden
Boz Deseo Garden (b. 1997, Monterey) 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 Bodenrader, Chicago (2025); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2025); Petrine, Paris (2025); Project Space, London (2025); 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
après-coup 11 of 1,400, 2023
Portland cement, waste incinerator ash, limestone
51.5 x 15 x 15.5 cm each
Installation view: Rockbund Museum, Shanghai (2025)
Boz Deseo Garden
160°, 2025
Engraved crystal, walnut
19.7 x 12.7 x 14.6 cm
Installation view: Bodenrader, Chicago (2025)
Boz Deseo Garden
Harriet, 2025
4K UHD video, sound, 60:00 min
Installation view: Bodenrader, Chicago (2025)
Boz Deseo Garden
The Virtual Estate of Elena Becher, 2025
various items and dimensions
Installation view: Art Fair Liste Basel (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
Hartman Avec Sade, 2023
antique copper lightning rod
27.8 x 40.6 cm
Installation view: Project Space, London (2025)
Boz Deseo Garden
To Reconcile the Sunset, 2024
housing intended for J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship (1840) and materials intended for conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; oil on sapele wood, metal hook, tree resin, engraved Flamex electric lighter
102 x 178 x 11 cm
Boz Deseo Garden
Dolmancé, 2024
automatic folding machine
96.5 × 48.3 × 53.3 cm
Installation view: Timeshare, Los Angeles (2024)
Boz Deseo Garden
Every Inch of this Wor(l)d is a Plantation, 2023
vinyl, nylon cable ties
2.4 x 1.2 m
Boz Deseo Garden
The longing I have for an evening walk on the course is insatiable. I need the crisp air of Spring in my lungs, the weight of clubs on my shoulder, and the delight of a dog by my side. Only these ingredients can cure the ailments of a maddening Winter. There are 19 days until daylight savings time... #playorperish, 2023
archival inkjet print, walnut frame
93 x 62.5 cm
Boz Deseo Garden
Caro, Cathexis, Contraband, 2023
embossed paper, bier pins, steel clamp
110 x 25.4 cm
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
Ahead of Speech and Once More With Horror (The Tide Lures Itself Out Again), 2022 Fired seashells/calcium oxide powder, charcoal, oak, ash, sand
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)
