For Art Basel Paris 2024, Hannah Hoffman and Candice Madey are pleased to present historic works from the 1980s by Darrel Ellis (American, b. 1958–d. 1992), including photographs, paintings, and works on paper that exemplify Ellis’s radical approach to portraiture, photography and unique iterative processes. Part of an ‘80s art movement in the Bronx where he grew up, Ellis also figured prominently in the downtown New York scene.

Between 2022 and 2024, a major museum exhibition of 160 art works traveled throughout the United States to the Baltimore Museum, The Bronx Museum for the Arts, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Columbia Museum of Art.

Darrel Ellis was born in 1958 in The Bronx, NY. His life was cut short by AIDS in 1992 at age 33. In 1992, a series of his photographs was featured in New Photography 8 at the Museum of Modern Art; and in 1996, a large-scale retrospective was shown at Art in General in New York and numerous institutions nationally. He participated in The Whitney Independent Study Program and was a resident in the PS1 studio residency program.

Ellis’s work is in the collections of The Art Institute of Art, Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Glenstone, Potomac; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on- Hudson; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Ellis is currently included in What It Becomes at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Blank Generation at FotoFocus Cincinnati, and Darrel Ellis & Miguel Ferrando at CANDICE MADEY.