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 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 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
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
A Mid Summer Nights Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 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
A Mid Winters Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2016 Artist to Artist, Benjamin Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Annual Resident Artist Exhibition & Sale, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Art Prize, Women's City Club, Grand Rapids, MI
El Museo Members Exhibition, El Museo, Buffalo, NY
A Mid Summer Night's Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, NY
From Your Collection, Sugar City, courtesy Dana Tyrrell, Buffalo, NY
Forefront, 78 Summer, Buffalo, NY
Bodily Echo, Dreamland, Buffalo, NY
A Mid Winters Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, 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
A Mid Summer Night's Draw, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 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
HALFLIFE, Shasti O'Leary Stoundant, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
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
A Way From Home: Part I, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
A Way From Home: Part II, Birdhaus, Fredonia, NY
Group Show, Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2016-18 Adjunct Instructor, 2D Form & Content, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY
Adjunct Instructor, Drawing I, Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY
2017-18 Adjunct Instructor, Foundations in Drawing, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY
Instructor, Mural Arts, Buffalo Public Schools Art Education, Summer 2017
2018 Adjunct Instructor, Digital Art & Design, Erie Community College, Buffalo, NY
2017 Instructor, Oil Painting, Buffalo Arts Studio Jump Start Program, Buffalo, NY,
Spring 2017
Instructor, Charcoal Drawing, Buffalo Arts Studio Jump Start Program, Buffalo, NY,
Winter 2017
Instructor, Drawing From Life, Buffalo Arts Studio Education Program, Buffalo, NY,
Winter 2017
2016 Adjunct Instructor, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY, Drawing & Painting I,
Fall 2016
Adjunct Instructor, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY, Drawing I,
Spring 2016
2015 Graduate Instructor, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Painting for
Non-Majors, Summer 2015
2013 Teaching Assistant, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY, Introduction to Painting,
[Distinguished Professor, Alberto Rey], Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY, Figure Modeling
[Assistant Professor, Hide Sadohara], Spring 2013
2012 Teaching Assistant, Fredonia State University, Fredonia, NY, Advanced Paining
[Distinguished Professor, Alberto Rey], Fall 2012
PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2018 Public Mural Collaboration, "From One Home to Another/ De Un Hogar A Otro",
Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, SUR/FACE, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Sanborn, NY
2017 Artist Talk, Fugue State, Roz Steiner Art Gallery, Batavia, NY
Public Mural Collaboration, "The Art of Labor", Clinton Street, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, New Work by Tricia Butski, The Cass Project, 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
CollectX25: An Art Affair and Auction for All, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Artist Talk, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY
Project Assistant to Robert Hirsch, Light Research, Buffalo, NY (2016-17)
2016 Panel Discussion, Artist to Artist, Benjamin Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Public Mural, Art Alley, 3rd Street, Niagara Falls, NY
2015 Public Mural Collaboration, Art Alley, 3rd Street, Niagara Falls, NY
Public Mural Collaboration, Painting For Non-Majors, University at Buffalo,
Buffalo, NY
2014 Department of Art, Senator, Graduate Student Association, University
at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (2014-15)
Guest Lecturer, University at Buffalo, Life Drawing, Fall 2014
Curatorial Assistant, Cravens World Exhibition, Anderson Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Photographer, Cravens World Exhibition Catalogue, Anderson Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
2013 Buffalo Arts Studio Plein Air Painting Demonstration at Canalside,
Erie Canal Harbor, Buffalo, NY
2012 Fredonia Figure Studies Sessions, President, Student Association Group,
SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY (2012-13)
Curator, Fredonia Figure Studies Exhibition, Buster Brown Bean Company,
Fredonia, NY
Guest lecturer, Niagara County Community College, Introduction to
Painting, Fall 2012
PRESS/ PUBLICATIONS
2018 Dana Tyrrel, 'Tricia Butski "Fathom" at Revolution Art Gallery', Buffalo Rising,
January 26, 2017
Colin Dabkowski, 'Tricia Butski Faces the Human Subconscious', The Buffalo News,
January 11, 2018
2017 Art Reveal Magazine No. 29, Tricia Butski Interview, May 2017, (pgs 18-23);
ISBN 9781364148027
Buffalo Rising, 'Lunch Time Talks: Tricia Butski', April 12, 2017
Colin Dabkowski, '12 Buffalo Artists to Follow on Instagram', The Buffalo News,
March 31, 2017
2015 Artists To Look Out For: Volume II, Starry Night Programs, (work featured on
page 15 and front cover)
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Studio Press, (Winter 2015 [Juror, Mary M. Tinti])
Women in Art 278 Magazine, July 2015, Issue 4, (pages 40-41)
University at Buffalo, Department of Art Graduate Catalogue
2014 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 25, Open Studio Press, (Cover Artist
and one page spread, page 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
Second Place, Beyond the Barrel, Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, Niagara
Falls, NY
2013 Best of Show, Evans Art Guild 40th Anniversary Summer Show, Angola,
NY
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 in Sculpture, 46th Annual Lewiston Art Festival, Lewiston, NY
2010 Award of Excellence in Art, Dolce Valvo Art Center, Sanborn, NY
COLLECTIONS & PUBLIC COMMISSION
2017 Public collection of 500 Seneca, Buffalo, NY
2015 Private collection of John Fatta, Buffalo, NY
Private collection of Gerald Mead, Buffalo, NY
2012 Public commission for Eveningside Vineyards, Cambria, NY
2011 Living with Art, Permanent Collection of SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY