Biography of Patricia Buck
Currently a resident of Columbia, Maryland, Patricia was born in Baltimore. She began her career in Washington, DC in 1983.

In 1981Joseph Hirshhorn purchased her torn paper painting "Demons without Faces" in an auction benefiting the Washington Project for the Arts. The painting was documented in the 1981 WWAC catalog The Eye of May Stevens.

In 1983, Demons without Faces was bequeathed to the Hirshhorn Museum.

Change Inc, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, awarded Patricia a grant to support her work in 1991.

The artist had a solo exhibition at Alla Roger’s Gallery in Washington,DC in 1991, and the World Bank featured her monotype on the cover of the International Women's Conference catalog for their event in Beijing, China.

The District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities supported her work with two Individual Artist Grants (1993 and 1995) and three Technical Assistance grants (1991, 1993 and 1994).

In 1993 the artist returned to school for her MFA in Experimental Studio at Howard University and shortly after graduation relocated to Denver, CO.

In 1996 Colorado’s Council for the Arts awarded her an art residency at Anderson Ranch for a workshop with Philip Brookman and Jim Goldberg. That study resulted in the draft of a book and an installation American Girl War.

In 1997, series "Big Women” exhibited at Pirate Gallery, in Denver featuring over-sized paintings of women’s bodies and men’s eyes.

Her installation "Genetics/Memetics" created as a site specific work for Pirate Gallery exhibited in Denver in 1998, and was re-installed in part at Art-O-Matic, 2002,
That installation was reviewed with photos in the Washington Post’s coverage of Art-o-matic.