About the Artist

A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Tyanna Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center, Women’s Studio Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, Project 1612 AIR, and Hotel Pupik. Her accolades include the 2012 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.

Buie has exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Freeport Art Museum, South Bend Museum of Art, The Alice Wilds, Materia Gallery, and cam.contemporarie Gallery, and group exhibitions at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, RISD’s Chace Center Gallery, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, and the University of Kentucky Art Museum. She is among a select group of artists commissioned to create a permanent public artwork for the Obama Presidential Center. Committed to community engagement, she has led printmaking workshops nationwide. Her work is held in major institutional and private collections internationally and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Essay’d, and New American Paintings. Buie is currently Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in Printmaking at RISD.