Buck is a third-generation art and technology geek, born and raised in Connecticut. He graduated from the Southern Connecticut State University art program in May 2010, and has been working with the Whitney Museum since January of the same. Buck maintains the museum's computer network and is in the process of digitally restoring hundreds of pages of time-worn AC Gilbert catalogs for the Gilbert Catalog preservation project. In his spare time, he collects vintage Transformers and Pac-Man related artwork.