James Bantone
James Bantone was born in Geneva, Switzerland (1992) and he currently lives and works between Geneva and Paris.
The artist graduated with a Bachelor of Art & Media – Video at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2019 and completed the Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2021. Bantone’s practice brings together photography and sculpture to extend a querying and queering of the uncanny as a gendered and racialized site of both horror and play. Trough installations that play with the poetics of anonymity, subsequent perspectives and subjectivity, combining photography, sculpture, and video. Bantone realizes a multidisciplinary exploration of both space and void unthreatened by a persistent search to circumvent displacement, consequence, or fear.
He has had solo exhibitions at Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2024), Swiss Institute, New York (2024), Karma International, Zurich (2023), Coalmine, Winterthur (2020), and participated in group exhibitions at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2024), Kunsthalle Zurich (2023), Simian, Copenhagen (2023), Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023), Espace Niemeyer, Paris (2023), Salts, Basel (2023), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2023), Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (2022) Cordova, Barcelona (2021), Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020), and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires (2019).
James Bantone was born in Geneva, Switzerland (1992) and he currently lives and works between Geneva and Paris.
The artist graduated with a Bachelor of Art & Media – Video at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in 2019 and completed the Work.Master – Contemporary Artistic Practices at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in 2021. Bantone’s practice brings together photography and sculpture to extend a querying and queering of the uncanny as a gendered and racialized site of both horror and play. Trough installations that play with the poetics of anonymity, subsequent perspectives and subjectivity, combining photography, sculpture, and video. Bantone realizes a multidisciplinary exploration of both space and void unthreatened by a persistent search to circumvent displacement, consequence, or fear.
He has had solo exhibitions at Spazio Maiocchi, Milan (2024), Swiss Institute, New York (2024), Karma International, Zurich (2023), Coalmine, Winterthur (2020), and participated in group exhibitions at Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2024), Kunsthalle Zurich (2023), Simian, Copenhagen (2023), Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023), Espace Niemeyer, Paris (2023), Salts, Basel (2023), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2023), Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (2022) Cordova, Barcelona (2021), Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020), and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires (2019).
Untitled (sexyy), 2024Acrylic transfer on steel
125×85 cm
Ph. Andrea Rossetti / Héctor Chico
Untitled (see me?), 2024Acrylic transfer on steel
250×120×10 cm
Ph. James Bantone
