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 a Master of Fine Arts from Howard University 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 the Art in Public Places collection. Her work is also held in numerous private collections across the United States, including Illinois, New York, Sea...

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027 Solo Exhibition, Artists & Makers Galleries N. Bethesda, MD

2000 New Work, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO

1999 American Girl War, Installation, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO

1998 Genetics/Memetics Installation, Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

1997 Big Women, Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, CO

1993 New Work Open Studio, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

1991 Holding the Sacred, Alla Rogers Gallery, Wash., DC

1991 Paintings of the I Ching, Arnold and Porter, Wash., DC

1990 — Glyphs & Diptychs, WPA, Washington, DC

1980 — Fifty Emotional States, Rockville Municipal Center Mansion, Rockville, MD

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026 — National Juried Exhibition, Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, MD (Juror: Kyle Hackett)

2026 — Green - National Juried Exhibition, Cade Art Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD (Juror: Roberto Ferrari)

2026 — Paper as Politic, Mason Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (Jurors: Helen Frederick, Nicole Donnelly)

2026 — Hill Center Galleries Regional Exhibition, Washington, DC (Juror: Claude Elliott)

2026 — Visionary Women, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD (Juror: Deborah Malowski)

2025 — Art Biennial Exhibit, Howard County Arts Coun...