Patricia Buck

Patricia Buck is an American abstract painter based in Maryland whose work spans large-
scale color-field painting and mixed-media practices.

Her work investigates phenomenal
energy, perception, and lived experience, often addressing female subjectivity and broader
social concerns through color, pattern, and material experimentation.


Buck earned her Master of Fine Arts from Howard University’s College of Art in Washington, D.C. (1996), and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio from University of
Maryland, College Park (1972).

Her work has been exhibited widely. Recent exhibitions in 2025 and 2026 include the East
City Regional Exhibition (Washington, D.C.), Howard County Arts Council Biennial,
group exhibitions at Columbia Art Center, Towson Arts Collective, and in The Survey of
Women Artists of the District, Maryland, and Virginia.

Early in her career, Buck’s torn-paper painting Demons without Faces was purchased by
Joseph Hirshhorn (1981) and is documented in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden.



In 1998 and 1999, the State of Colorado acquired two of her works for their Art in Public Places collection. Her work is also held in numerous private collections
across the United States, including Illinois, New ...

MFA - Howard University, College of Art, Washington DC
BFA - University of Maryland, Studio Art, College Park, MD
Corcoran Open Program, Leon Berkowitz, painting

2027 SOLO EXHIBITION:
Artists and Makers Galleries and Studios, N. Bethesda, MD

2026 GROUP/JURIED EXHIBITIONS:

PAPER AS POLITIC
Symposium & Exhibition
4/13/26-4/24/26
Curators: Helen Frederick/Nicole Donnelly;
George Mason University Gallery
George Mason University,
Fairfax, VA

HOWARD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL
Capitoline Center, Ellicott City, MD.


REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION, Hill Center Gallery, Washington DC

SINGULAR SENSATION, Columbia Arts Center, Columbia, MD

ART ON THE PORCH, Towson Arts Collective, Towson, MD

ART BIENNIAL EXHIBIT 2025, Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City, MD

SURVEY OF WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE DMV, Curator, F Lenny Campello. Artists and Makers Studios and Galleries, N. Bethesda, MD

2025 BLOSSOMS, Columbia Art Center, Juror, Jay Moore, Columbia, MD

SUMMER SOJOURN, Meeting House Gallery, Columbia, MD

VISIONARY WOMEN, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD

2018 ALPER INITIATIVE FOR WASHINGTON ART, Washington Women’s Art Center Retrospective AT American University Katzen Art Gallery and Museum, Washington, DC. Four color Catalog.
HOWARD COUNTY OPEN Howard County Art Council, Ellicott City, MD.


2000 EXHIBITION, New Paintings, EDGE Gallery, Denver, CO.

1998 GENETICS/MEMETICS. Room Installatio...