Tyanna J. Buie explores her connections to images, fragmentation, appropriation, the contemporary condition, social media/commentary and identity. She uses traditional and non-traditional printmaking processes, along with video work that utilizes Deep-Fake technology produced through easily accessible tools such as smartphone applications, combining images and texts derived from mass media and referencing significant Black popular cultural moments. 

A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has attended artists-in-residency programs, such as the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and Project 1612 AIR in Morton, IL. Buie has received numerous awards, including an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2012, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L Nohl Alumni Award.

Buie has mounted several solo exhibitions including Embodiment(s) at the Freeport [IL] Art Museum, Re/Faced at the South Bend [IN] Museum of Art and Improvisations at the Alice Wilds Gallery in Milwaukee, WI. She has contributed to many group exhibitions including A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking Exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN (2021), Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI (2022), Get Together at Reyes Finn in Detroit, MI (2023) and Stop Making Sense, PLUS 1 at the Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield Township, MI (2023). She has also maintained a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations throughout the country. Buie’s work has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com and featured on Essay’d.com and New American Paintings, No. 155. 

Before joining the faculty at RISD, she was an assistant professor and section chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.