cam.contemporarie presents, Revisionist History, the first solo exhibition in Chicago by Providence based artist, Tyanna Buie. Revisionist History features works appropriated and reappropriated from 17th Century Dutch engraved portraits of political leaders. In collaboration with ChatGPT, their history and stories are rewritten and reimagined as a triumphant narrative that considers the irreparable geographical and socio ecological ramifications of colonialism.

With an acknowledgement of Afro-Futurism, the use of technology enables Buie to consider alternate inclusive versions of the world where the invisible is made visible. Through the use of video, print media, painting, drawing, collage, screen-printing, and Deep-Fake technology constructed from excerpts derived from social media and Black popular cultural platforms, Buie alters the images to reflect the contemporary condition. Using accessible tools such as smartphone applications like ReFace, she constructs an intersectional identity between self-portraiture, personal narrative, family history, pop-culture, Black cultural significant moments, social movements. This process of questioning authorship allows Buie to challenge her personal history through the retelling of past and current events, while remaking images, sound, and text to reimagine the future.

Tyanna Buie

A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has attended artists-in-residency programs, such as the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, The Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY, the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Project 1612 AIR in Morton, IL. and Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg, AUT. Buie has received numerous awards such as; an emerging artist Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2012, the Love of Humanity Award from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant in 2015, the 2019 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, the 2019/2020 Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L Nohl Alumni Award.

Buie has mounted several solo exhibitions including solo exhibitions: Embodiment(s) at the Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, IL, Re/Faced at the South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN, Improvisations, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI, and Input/Output, Materia Gallery, Detroit, MI. She has contributed to many group exhibitions including A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking Exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN, Printmaking in the Twenty-First Century at the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, MI, Homebody at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, The Black Biennial: Sonder at RISD’s Chace Center Gallery, Providence, RI, and All in the Family at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY. Buie has also maintained a connection to the community by hosting printmaking workshops and demonstrations throughout the country. Her works have been acquired by major institutions and private collections both nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed on Hyperallergic.com and featured on Essay’d.com and New American Paintings No. 155. Currently, Buie is an Associate Professor in Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.

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