EDUCATION
2015 MFA: Drawing and Painting, Department of Art, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY
2013 BFA: Drawing and Painting (summa cum laude), Fredonia State University,
Fredonia, NY
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Tricia Butski & Patrick Foran, Fredonia Technology Incubator, Dunkirk, NY
Likeness, Nichols School Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2018 Revenant, Horizon Gallery, WNED | WBFO Studios, Buffalo, NY
SUR/FACE, Tricia Butski & Patrick Foran, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Sanborn, NY
Fathom, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2017 Fugue State, Roz Steiner Art Gallery, Batavia, NY
New Work By Tricia Butski, The Cass Project, Buffalo, NY
2016 Semblance, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
2015 These Fragile Truths, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2013 Love Canal Revisited, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Art Off the Wall, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda. NY
(716) Art, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Annual Studio Artist Exhibition & Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Poeta Project, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Contemporary Portraiture, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Cathy Jesse Marion Art Gallery, Fredonia, NY
Buffalo Arts Studio Invitational, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY
Mini Masterpieces, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2018 Annual Resident Artist Exhibition & Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Brava!, Art Reach WNY, 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
Art Prize 10, Sweet House, Grand Rapids, MI
Upstate New York Drawing Invitational, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
Playing With Fire: Contemporary Galleries of Buffalo, Trimain Center,
Buffalo, NY
2017 Faces of WNY: Portraits from the Gerald Mead Collection, Niagara Arts &
Cultural Center, Niagara Falls, NY
Annual Resident Artist Exhibition & Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Art Prize 9, The B.O.B., Grand Rapids, MI
Sugatory, Art Reach WNY, 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
El Museo Members Exhibition, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
Hallwalls Members Exhibition, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Drawn Together, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY
We Are the Resistance, Revolution Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2016 Artist to Artist, Benjamin Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Annual Resident Artist Exhibition & Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Regional Flair, Live & Silent Auction, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Art Prize 8, Women's City Club, Grand Rapids, MI
El Museo Members Exhibition, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
From Your Collection, Sugar City, courtesy Dana Tyrrell, Buffalo, NY
Forefront, 78 Summer, Buffalo, NY
Bodily Echo, Dreamland, Buffalo, NY
2015 Artist Lottery: Collaborative Pairing, Dreamland, Buffalo, NY
Yourself, Local Project Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Monster 5.0: Invasion, 464 Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Of Niagara: Works from the Gerald Mead Collection:
Dolce Valvo Art Center, Niagara County Community College,
Sanborn, NY
Roz Setiner Art Gallery, Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY
41st Annual Members Exhibition, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center,
Buffalo, NY
Art of the Now, Artpark Gallery, Lewiston, NY
Beyond the Barrel, Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, Niagara Falls, NY
Bring To Light, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls , NY
2014 Cultural Commodities: As Exhibition In Four Phases, Burchfield Penney
Art Center, Buffalo, NY
The Medium is the Monster, Department of Art Gallery, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY
Cravens World Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
It’s Not Me It’s You, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2013 The Technoluminist Eye, Meridian West Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
47th Annual Lewiston Art Festival, Center Street, Lewiston, NY
Evans Art Guild 40th Anniversary Summer Show, Evans Historical
Building, Angola, NY
The Fine Arts Show, Cathy Jesse Marion Art Gallery, Fredonia, NY
Life is Art, Barker Commons, Fredonia, NY
Figure Modeling, Emmitt Christian Art Gallery, Fredonia, NY
Fredonia Showcase, Cathy Jesse Marion Art Gallery, Fredonia, NY
Impromptu, Birdhaus, Fredonia, NY
2012 Last Art Show of Summer, Lancaster, NY
46th Annual Lewiston Art Festival, Center Street, Lewiston, NY
Works by Tricia Butski and James Millhouse, Emmitt Christian Art Gallery,
Fredonia, NY
Away From Home: Part I, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
Away From Home: Part II, Birdhaus, Fredonia, NY
Group Show, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016- Adjunct Instructor, Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY (Drawing I, SP ‘16- SP ‘20,
Present Digital Art & Design, SP ‘18- SP ‘20)
Adjunct Instructor, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY (Drawing & Painting I, FA ‘16, SP '19- SP ‘20,
2D Form & Content, FA ‘16, FA ‘17, & FA ‘18, Foundations in Drawing, SP ‘17- SP ‘20)
2017-19 Instructor/ Muralist, Mural Arts, Buffalo Public Schools Summer Arts Program, Buffalo, NY
2017 Instructor, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY (Drawing From Life (adult course)),
Charcoal Drawing (ages 14-18), Oil Painting (ages 14-18))
2016 Adjunct Instructor, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY (Drawing I, SP ‘16)
2015 Adjunct Instructor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (Painting for Non-Majors, Summer ‘15)
PUBLIC ART
2019 Public Mural Collaboration, All Colors, 33 Ash Street, Buffalo, NY
2018 Public Mural Collaboration, From One Home to Another/ De Un Hogar A Otro, 448 Niagara Street,
Buffalo, NY
2017 Public Mural Collaboration, The Art of Labor, 333 Clinton Street, Buffalo, NY
2016 Public Mural, Lapse, Art Alley 3rd Street, Niagara Falls, NY
2015 Public Mural Collaboration, Greetings from Niagara Falls, Art Alley 3rd Street, Niagara Falls, NY
Public Mural Collaboration, Art 213: Painting for Non-Majors, University at Buffalo Center for the Arts,
Buffalo, NY
INVITED LIVE ART EVENTS
2019 LiveNF Makers Market, Live Painting, Conference Center, Niagara Falls, NY
PLAY/ GROUND, Live Drawing, Medina, NY
Rolls Royce/ Bentley Centennial, Live Drawing, Knox Farm State Park, East Aurora, NY
A Mid Summer Nights Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2018 Trimania, Live wall drawing, Trimain Center, Buffalo, NY
2017 Sugatory, Live collaborative drawing, 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
A Mid Summer Nights Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
A Mid Winters Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2016 A Mid Summer Nights Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
A Mid Winters Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2015 A Mid Summer Nights Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
INVITED TALKS
2019 Artist Talk, Contemporary Portraiture Artist Tour, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, Likeness, Nichols School, Buffalo, NY
2018 Panel Discussion, From One Home to Another, Canisius College, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, 10 Minute Talks, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, SUR/FACE, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Sanborn, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Fugue State, Roz Steiner Art Gallery, Batavia, NY
Artist Talk, Lunch Time Talks, The Cass Project, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, Visiting Artist Program, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY
2016 Panel Discussion, Artist to Artist, Benjamin Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2012 Guest Lecturer, Niagara County Community College (Introduction to Painting Class
[Professor Barbra Buckman]), Sanborn, NY
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016- Resident Artist, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Present
2016- 17 Studio Assistant to Robert Hirsch, Buffalo, NY
2014 Graduate Student Association, Department of Art, Senator, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY (2014-15)
Curatorial Assistant, Cravens World Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Photographer, Cravens World Exhibition Catalogue, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2013 Buffalo Arts Studio Plein Air Painting Demonstration at Canalside, Erie Canal Harbor,
Buffalo, NY
PERFORMANCES AND COLLABORATIONS
2016 TurboGrafx16, Closing Performance, El Museo, Buffalo, NY (with Tommy Nguyen)
TurboGrafx16, Opening Performance, El Museo, Buffalo, NY (with Tommy Nguyen)
Spectral Locus, Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY (with Amanda Browder)
2014 HALFLIFE, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON (with Shasti O’Leary Soudant)
REVIEWS AND PRESS
2019 Dennis Hinrichsen, [q/ lear], Green Linden Press, Grinnell, IA, 2019, (artwork featured on cover).
2018 Robert Hirsch with Greg Erf, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, Routledge, New York,
2018, (p.193).
Dana Tyrrel, “Tricia Butski ‘Fathom’ at Revolution Gallery,” Buffalo Rising, January 26, 2018.
Colin Dabkowski, “Tricia Butski Faces the Human Subconscious,” The Buffalo News, January 11, 2018.
2017 Matt Krueger, “Buffalo Artists ‘Distorted’ Drawings Now on Display at GCC,” The Daily News, October 5, 2017.
Art Reveal Magazine No. 29, “Tricia Butski Interview,” May 2017, (pg. 18-23).
Artospective, “Drawings by Tricia Butski from Buffalo,” New York,
https://artospective.blogspot.com/2017/05/drawings-by-tricia-butski-buffalo-new-york.html
Colin Dabkowski, “12 Buffalo artists to follow on Instagram,” The Buffalo News. March 31, 2017.
2016 Colin Dabkowski, “Art Alley designed to fuel revival of downtown Niagara Falls,” The Buffalo News: Gusto.
August 22, 2016.
Nancy Fischer, “Public art project spiffs up an alley in Niagara Falls,” The Buffalo News. July 13, 2016.
Colin Dabkowski, “House of Art,” The Buffalo News: Gusto. April 27, 2016.
Conor Moynihan, “Dreamlands ‘Bodily Echo’ navigates complex issues of memory, race,” The Buffalo News: Gusto,
February 8, 2016.
2015 Artists to Look Out For: Volume II, Starry Night Exposure, (work featured on pg.15 and front cover [Juror Monika Proffitt])
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 31, Open Studio Press, (One page spread, pg.31 [Juror, Mary M. Tinti)]
Colin Dabkowski, “464 Gallery mounts a ‘Monster’ mash-up,” Buffalo News: Gusto, (exhibition announcement with photograph),
October 27, 2015.
We are What Lives Grows Here No Longer, University at Buffalo Graduate Catalogue, Department of Art, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY.
2014 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 25, Open Studio Press, (Cover Artist and one page spread, pg.36 [Juror, Trevor Richardson])
2013 Melissa Rechin, “Senior Work Showcased in Gallery Opening,” The Fredonia Leader, May 8, 2013.
Robert Plyler, “Love Canal Exhibit on Display,” Jamestown Post Journal, April 19, 2013.
Colin Dabkowski, “Exhibition on New Paintings Considers Painful Legacy of Love Canal,” The Buffalo News, April 11, 2013.
2012 Joshua Maloni, “Art Festival 2012,” Niagara Frontier Publications, August 2012.
AWARDS
2015 Philip C. Elliott & Virginia Cuthbert Elliott Graduate Painting Award, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2013 Best of Show, Evans Art Guild 40th Anniversary Summer Show, Angola, NY (Juror, George Grace)
Award of Excellence in the Discipline of Drawing and Painting, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY
2012 Best of Show, Last Art Show of Summer, Lancaster, NY
First Place, Sculpture, 46th Annual Lewiston Art Festival, Lewiston, NY (Jurors, Mary Helen Miskuly and Allie Brady)
2010 Award of Excellence in Art, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Sanborn, NY
COLLECTIONS AND PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2019 Permanent Collection of Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2017 Public Collection of 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
2015 Private Collection of Gerald Mead, Buffalo, NY
Private Collection of John Fatta, Buffalo, NY
2012 Public Collection of Eveningside Vineyards, Cambria, NY
2011 Permanent Collection of SUNY Fredonia, Living With Art, Fredonia, NY