Tyanna Buie
A native of Chicago and Milwaukee, Tyanna J. Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has participated in artist residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), Project 1612 AIR (Morton, IL), Hotel Pupik (Schrattenberg, AUT), and Good Hart AIR, (Harbor Springs, MI).
Buie’s accolades include the 2012 Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, and the 2015 Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. She was also awarded the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking (University of Iowa), the 2020 Fellowship.art award through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L. Nohl Alumni Award.
Buie has presented several solo exhibitions including: Embodiment(s) at the Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL; Re/Faced at the South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; Improvisations at the Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI; Input/Output at Materia Gallery, Detroit, MI, Revisionist History at cam.contemporarie Gallery in Chicago, IL; and Now Playing! at One-Off Exhibitions, Milwaukee, WI. She has also contributed to many group exhibitions including A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN; Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century at Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Homebody at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; The Black Biennial: Sonder at the RISD Museum, Providence, RI; It’s a Fine Thing at University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Screenprint Biennial at Russell Sage College, Albany, NY; All in the Family at University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY; Reclaim/Reframe: Datasets and Cultural Visibility at Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE; and machinekind at Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Buie maintains a strong commitment to community engagement through printmaking workshops and demonstrations across the country. Her work is held in major institutional and private collections nationally and internationally and has received critical attention in Hyperallergic, Essay’d, and New American Paintings No. 155, as well as in the documentary Out of the Picture. She is among a select group of artists commissioned to create permanent public artwork for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, IL.