David Bayus

In-Conversation with Clark Buckner

Reflecting on Reflecting on his current exhibition, Performance Anxiety, its unique aesthetic, formal and technological innovations, and its playful personal treatment of insecurity, anger, generational changes in romantic relationships, and contemporary uncertainties about the role of men in a post-feminist world.

About the Artist

David Bayus (b. 1982, Johnson City, TN) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work is a cross-disciplinary practice centered around experimental filmmaking with a focus on the increasingly convergent relationships between spirituality, technology, and crisis. He is a co-founder of BASEMENT art collective located in San Francisco's Mission District. He received his MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2010. He has exhibited widely in the Bay Area and abroad, including the 2018 edition of Bay Area Now at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Arts Commission; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.