James Bantone is an artist who lives and works between Geneva and Paris. He 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 HEAD — Genève (HES-SO) 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 many group exhibitions.
