Patricia's profile
Patricia Buck was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She has a master of fine arts degree from the Howard University, College of Art in Washington, DC, and a bachelor's degree in studio art plus a minor in art history from the University of Maryland, College Park.
In 2025 she received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, and her work was juried into the 2025 Arts Biennial sponsored by the Howard County Arts Council. Curator Lenny Campello selected her art for inclusion in the Survey of Women Artists in the DMV exhibition.
Two paintings by the artists are in the state of Colorado Art in Public Places collection, and Joe Hirshhorn purchased her work in 1983, which is catalogued in the Hirshhorn collection.
The Colorado Council on the Arts awarded her a fellowship in photography at Anderson Ranch and she has attended and served as studio assistant at Haystack School of Crafts in drawing, painting and ceramics, and assistant in drawing and painting at Penland. She is a recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Arlington Arts Council and has received five grants from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts & Humanities, including two Individual Artist grants.
The emphasis of her art continues to be using color and form to show aspects of phenomenal energy.
