Modern West is pleased to announce Stories from the Bone Box, a solo show of works by Utah-based artist Fidalis Buehler. The exhibition will be on view in Modern West’s main gallery September 19, 2025 through October 31, 2025.
Fidalis Buehler is a mixed-media artist living and working in northern Utah. Buehler received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Hawaii, Honolulu and his Master of Fine Arts from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where he now teaches as an associate professor of studio art. Buehler’s work manifests complex representations of identity, with each piece becoming a self-portrait of mythology, dreams, revelation, magic, mysticism and ritual. His practice is intuitive, often incorporating the playful layering, removing and mixing of materials as they are placed on the canvas.
According to the artist, the phrase "Stories from the Bone Box" is indicative of Pacific Island culture, where the “bones” directly reference ancestors, and the “box” is the container of which their stories are held and passed down to following generations. The exhibition includes a series of paintings, prints and sculptures embodying the dream-like nature of Buehler’s distinctive visual storytelling, with the installation of his work becoming the means to pass down stories from his very own “bone box.”
Buehler has spent recent years working through this mode of narrative building, noting the experience as one that “resolves what it means to be me” as someone with a mixed Pacific Island and Euro-American heritage. The featured artworks incorporate symbols and stories from the artist’s lived experience and identity-based creative practice, a few including; characters floating in and out of dream-like spaces, canines delivering messages, swimming pools becoming spaces of comfort, plants and gardeners personifying lineage, and birthday cakes existing as monoliths of mortality.

FIDALIS BUEHLER: STORIES FROM THE BONE BOX / SEPTEMBER 19-OCTOBER 31

Fidalis Buehler | Bone Box, 2025 | oil on panel | 40 x 36 in. | $5,500

Fidalis Buehler | Grid Camp, 2024 | oil on panel | 23 x 29 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Couch Friend, 2024 | oil on panel | 23 x 29 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Half and Half, 2024 | oil on panel | 23 x 29 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Cake Monolith, 2025 | oil on panel | 23 x 29 in. | SOLD

Fidalis Buehler | Bball Dad, 2025 | oil on canvas | 84 x 60 in. | $12,000

Fidalis Buehler | Dog and Hand (Story of Nomati), 2025 | wood (baltic birch) | 25 x 13 x 4.5 in. | $1,600

Fidalis Buehler | Bird & Plant (Story of the Navigator), 2025 | wood (baltic birch) | bird: 24 x 22 x .5 in., plant: 24 x 12.5 x 4.5 in. | $1,800

Fidalis Buehler | Whisper (Story of the Navigator), 2025 | wood (baltic birch) | 14 x 9 x 4.25 in. | $600

Fidalis Buehler | Cat (Story of the Gathering), 2025 | wood (baltic birch) | 19 x 9 x 4.5 in. | $600

Fidalis Buehler | The Bird Stone, 2025 | oil on panel | 40 x 36 in. | $5,500

Fidalis Buehler | Sky Bird (After Children’s Mo’olelo), 2025 | wood, wire, plaster and oil | 67 x 77 in. | $8,000

Fidalis Buehler | Pool Totem, 2025 | oil on canvas | 84 x 60 in. | $12,000

Fidalis Buehler | Figures on Water, 2025 | oil on panel | 40 x 36 in. | $5,500

Fidalis Buehler | Boy with Word Bubbles, 2025 | oil on found fabric | 24 x 22 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Hoodie Man with Yellow Glasses, 2025 | oil on panel | 16 x 14 in. | $1,600

Fidalis Buehler | Night Pool, 2024 | oil on panel | 23 x 29 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | On The Move, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Hoodie Gathering, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Rock Portrait, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Signal Flag II, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Word Bubble Weapon, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Old Smile, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Floor Grid, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Signal Flag I, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Hand Bag, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Man Reach, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 in. x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Scrap, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Big Yellow Man, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1000

Fidalis Buehler | Ghost Cap, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Blank, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Bandit, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Dog Hoodie, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Empty Head, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Volcano Prop and a Ghost, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Arrow Down, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Signal Flag III, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Rug, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Trending Upward, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Yellow Man Reach, 2018 | oil on paper | 9.5 x 13.5 in. | $1,000

Fidalis Buehler | Messengers with Beach Ball, 2024 | oil on panel | 29 x 23 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Gardener, 2024 | oil on panel | 29 x 23 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Two-Headed Horse, 2024 | oil on panel | 29 x 23 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Flying Canoe, Above the Teeth, 2019 | oil on panel | SOLD

Fidalis Buehler | Wrestler Versus Hellhounds, 2017 | oil on panel | 60 x 60 in. | $9,600

Fidalis Buehler | Night Catch, 2021 | oil on panel | 60 x 48 in. | $8,400

Fidalis Buehler | Cipher 1, 2023 | screen print | 27 x 20.5 in. | $2,000

Fidalis Buehler | Cipher 2, 2023 | screen print | 27 x 20.5 in. | $2,000

Fidalis Buehler | Ballers + Fox, 2021 | monoprint | 22 x 30 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Gardener, 2024 | mixed media | 28.5 x 23 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Old Fathers, 2021 | oil on paper | 16 x 15 in. | $1,300

Fidalis Buehler | Knife Wound in the Pool, 2021 | oil on paper | 18 x 15 in. | $1,400

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint I, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint II, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint III, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint IV, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint V, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint VI, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint VII, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000

Fidalis Buehler | Waypoint VIII, 2025 | oil on paper | 30 x 22.5 in. | $3,000