Tyanna Buie

A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Tyanna J. Buie received her BA from Western Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has been awarded numerous prestigious residencies, including at the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Project 1612 (Morton, IL), and Hotel Pupik (Schrattenberg, Austria).

Buie’s accolades include the 2012 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Love of Humanity Award, the 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2019–2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa, the 2020 Fellowship.art award through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.

She has mounted solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Freeport Art Museum (IL), South Bend Museum of Art (IN), The Alice Wilds (WI), Materia Gallery (MI), cam.contemporarie Gallery (IL), and One-Off Exhibitions (WI). Her work has also appeared in group shows at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking (MN), Detroit Institute of Arts (MI), Cranbrook Art Museum (MI), RISD’s Chace Center Gallery (RI), Stanley Museum of Art (IA), Russell Sage College (NY), University of Kentucky Art Museum (KY), and the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA.

In addition to her studio practice, Buie actively engages with the community through printmaking workshops, lectures, and demonstrations nationwide. Her work is held in private and public collections both nationally and internationally and has been featured in Hyperallergic, Newcity Art, The Chicago Reader, Essay’d, and New American Paintings (Issue No. 155).