Christopher Bucklow
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Christopher Bucklow (born 1957) is a British artist and art-historian.[1] His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in numerous public collections including the Guggenheim Museum,[2] Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),[3] Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (SFMoMA),[4] and The Metropolitan Museum of Art[5] among others. He has received residencies at The British Museum, London, the Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, and The Centre for Studies in British Romanticism, Grasmere.[6] Bucklow is best known for his ongoing photographic series Guests (1993–present)[7] and his improvisational paintings from the series To Reach Inside A Vault (2006–present).[8] He is the author of numerous books and essays including The Sea of Time and Space (Wordsworth Trust, 2004),[9] "This is Personal: Blake and Mental Fight" in Blake & Sons, Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art (University College, Cork, 2005), What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade (Wordsworth Trust, 2007),[10] and the co-author of Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology (Thames & Hudson, 2019).[11]