Paper Buck is a transgender interdisciplinary artist and printmaker rooted in movements for racial and economic justice. He is currently based in the Chocenyo Ohlone territories of Oakland, CA.  Current projects include cross-disciplinary work in print, painting, alternative photography, digital media, drawing, collage, 3-D processes and collaboration.

Paper was WSW’s artist-in-residence at Atelierhaus Beisinghoff in Diemelstadt-Rhoden, Germany, in 2013. The following year he was invited back to Germany to present a solo exhibition, History in the Present, in Dringenberg near Diemelstadt-Rhoden. In this body of work, the artist  was looking at interactions of familial and political histories to address the presence and residue of history in our lives. In addressing racial and settler colonial formations, dynamics of diaspora, assimilation, globalization and national mythology, his work investigates the force of cultural amnesia to question how we might recontextualize our past in order to shift our future.

Paper is a volunteer and member of the leadership team with the Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project based in San Francisco, CA and the manager of the printmaking studio at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. Paper holds a BA from Macalester College. In the fall of 2016, he relocated to Pittsburg, PA, as an MFA candidate at Carnegie Mellon University.