James Bantone (b. 1992 in Geneva, Switzerland. Lives and works in Paris) is a multi-media artist whose work constitutes an ongoing exploration of mimesis and mimetic desire through uncanny reproductions of the coded subtleties of gesture as they pertain to gender, sexuality, and race. Bantone—whose experience as a fashion photographer informs his continued experimentations with the aesthetic possibilities of image making—creates installations which toy with the poetics of anonymity, ulterior perspective(s), and subjectivity as a means of questioning contemporary markers of Black, queer identity. During their SI residency, Bantone was nominated as a finalist for the 2023 Swiss Art Award. Bantone has exhibited at Cordova, Barcelona, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Geneve, Swiss Institute, New York, Coalmine, Winterthur, Kunsthalle Fribourg and UV Estudios, Buenos Aires.