ABOUT FRANCES BUKOVSKY
Frances Bukovsky (b. 1996 they/them) makes images about the intricate relationship between bodies, environments, and identities within the context of chronic illness, disability, and queerness. Bukovsky applies interdisciplinary research to self portraiture, documentary photography, and camera-less photography to make projects that connect intimate personal experience to broader systemic issues.
Raised in rural New York, Bukovsky earned a BFA in Photography and Imaging from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2018. Since then, Bukovsky has been actively showing their work in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, and Circle Gallery at University of Georgia in Athens. In 2020 Bukovsky published their debut monograph “Vessel,” and became a co-founding member of the Kinship Photography Collective.
Bukovsky invites viewers to contemplate the complexities of the human body, the significance of place, and how body and place intersect with identity. Through weaving photographs, writing, and research together, Bukovsky encourages conversations about how individual experiences connect to societal structures such as the medical industrial complex, disability rights, and environmental change.
Bukovsky currently lives in Marshall, NC.
Email: FLBukovsky@gmail.com
Instagram: @Frances_Bukovsky
Substack: francesbukovsky.substack.com
Image by Barron Northrup
CV
EDUCATION
2014-2018 BFA, Photography and Imaging, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2016 Course, Darkroom Photography, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY
EXPERIENCE
2022 - Current Founding Leadership Team, Kinship Photography Collective
2021 - Current Member of Women Photograph
2022 - 2023 Photography Director, AGBU’s Camp Nubar, Delaney, NY
2020 - 2022 Founding Leadership Team, Life at Six Feet Photography Project
2015 - 2018 Lab Monitor, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
TEACHING EXPERIENCE / WORKSHOPS / COURSES
2025 Bodies Connected by Water, 6 week practice group
2025 Bodies Connected by Fire, 5 week practice group
2025 Bodies Connected by Air, 5 week practice group
2024 Pushing the Edges: Noticing Symbiosis, 6 week practice group
2024 A Complex Definition of a Body, 6 week practice group
2024 Lumen Printing with Archival Materials, Wofford College, Workshop
2023 Photography Activity Leader, Camp Nubar, 2 week darkroom instruction
2023 Love and All Its Complexity, Sylva, NC, Workshop
2022 Photography Director, Camp Nubar, 6 week darkroom instruction
2022 Image Making as Cathartic Practice, Peter Bullough Foundation, Workshop
2022 Magic in the Mundane, 6 week practice group
2021 Anatomy of a Home, 6 week practice group
2020 Self-Reflection through Self Portraiture, 6 week practice group
PUBLIC SPEAKING / ARTIST TALKS
2025 Photography as Process, Visiting Artist, Wofford College
2025 Artist Lecture Series, Don’t Smile
2025 Making Kin: Panel with Marcus Morris, Turchin Center
2025 Elementals: Water Leadership Team, Kinship Photography Collective
2025 Elementals: Fire Leadership Team, Kinship Photography Collective
2024 Visiting Goodall Fellow, Wofford College
2024 Between Seeing and Being Seen w/ Sky Maggiore, Kinship Photography Collective
2023 Research in Photography, Visiting Artist, Shepherd University
2023 Kinship, Western North Carolina University
2022 Photography and the Un/Body with Ash Hagerstrand, Kinship Photography Collective
2022 If We Never Get Better, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image
2022 Artist Talk, Visiting Artist, Ringling College of Art and Design
2020 Queering In Quarantine, Kinship Photography Collective
2020 Photography and Community Building, Click! Photography Festival
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2024 Goodall Visiting Fellows Program, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
2023 ACP Portfolio Review Equity Scholarship
2022 Peter Bullough Foundation AiR, Winchester, VA
2021 Makers Circle AiR, Marshall, NC
2020 Open Call Artists Virtual AiR
2018 Student Development Grant, Ringling College of Art and Design
2017 Trustee Scholar Nomination, Ringling College
2017 Presidential Award, Ringling College
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Glendale: Looking Back, Looking Forward, Being Present, Wofford College, SC
2025 Where Do We Come Together, Mallr.a.t.s Gallery, Asheville, NC
2025 You Are Here, Mallr.a.t.s Gallery, Asheville, NC
2024 Infinitely Varied & Without Bound, Cowee School, Cowee, NC
2024 Viral Integrations, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2023 Listening to the Land, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, Highlands, NC
2023 Listening to the Land, UGA Circle Gallery, Athens, GA
2023 Cultures of Care, Dyer Arts Center at the National Institute of the Deaf, Rochester, NY
2023 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburg, PA
2023 It’s All Relative, LivLab, Sylva, NC
2022 With Rapture and Astonishment, The Bascom: A Center for the Arts, Highlands, NC
2022 Wanted: A World for One Billion, United Nations HQ, New York, NY
2022 Skin I’m In, Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2022 If We Never Get Better, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Skin I’m In, Revolve AVL, Asheville, NC
2022 Ultraviolet, Visionaries and Voices, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, East Window SOUTH, Boulder, CO
2021 Pieces of Light, Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC
2021 Six Feet: Boundaries, Belonging, Becoming, Revolve AVL, Asheville, NC
2021 Of Family, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY
2021 Art Remedy, Art N’ Folly, Miami, FL
2019 Best of Ringling, Art Ovation Hotel, Sarasota, FL
2019 Senior Thesis Showcase, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
PUBLICATIONS / FEATURES
2025 Queering Appalachia’s Visual History: A collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers, University of Kentucky Press
2025 Finding Light within the Darkness, Too Tired Project
2025 Appalachian Visual Art Special Edition, Appalachian Journal
2024 Chiral Haven, Ramble Editions
2023 Common Ground vol. 2, Borderline Press
2023 Photography and Imaging Alumni in the News, Ringling College of Art and Design
2023 LivLab to host ‘Making Kin with the Natural World,’ Sylva Herald
2023 The Wildest Most Beautiful Ugly, Too Tired Project
2023 Hazey vol. 3, Fifth Wheel Press
2023 Soft Lightning Studio vol. 3: Rural Queerness, Soft Lightning Studio
2022 A World For One Billion, Lenscratch
2022 Wanted: A World for One Billion, Now This News
2022 Proof: Pathology, Lenscratch
2022 Heart of the Issue, Analog Forever Magazine Issue 8
2022 Heart of the Issue, Analog Forever Magazine Issue 7
2022 Visions of Love, The Luupe
2022 Hazey vol. 2, Fifth Wheel Press
2021 Hazey vol. 1, Fifth Wheel Press
2021 The Disability Issue, Archer Magazine
2021 Late/Refusals, Orenbeg Press
2021 Vessel, Babipunk Magazine
2021 Life with Endometriosis, Behind Closed Doors Podcast
2021 Featured Portfolio, Float Magazine
2020 Where the Red Flowers Bloom, Catalyst Interviews
2020 Soft Lightning vol. 2, Soft Lightning Studio
2020 Fraction Magazine Issue 134, Fraction Magazine
2020 Soft Lightning Studio vol. 1, Soft Lightning Studio