Designers James Bantone

Bantone’s artistic practice extends a querying / queering of the uncanny as a site of both exploration and play. Through 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.

James Bantone (b. 1992 in Geneva; lives and works in Paris) 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. He has had solo exhibitions at Swiss Institute, New York (2024), Karma International, Zurich (2023), Coalmine, Winterthur (2020), and participated in group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich (2023), Simian, Copenhagen (2023), Klemm’s Gallery, Berlin (2023), Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2023), Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (2022) Cordova, Barcelona (2021), Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020), and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires (2019).