Artist Bio

Hannah Buchanan is an artist from Rockville, Indiana working in oil, acrylic, and gouache. Her paintings focus on the preservation of memories, traditions, and world-building, often centering the rural Midwestern landscape and her family’s bait shop. Buchanan is a 2022 graduate of DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and earned an MFA in Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2025. She has studied at Anderson Ranch in Colorado and with Vice Versa artist collective in Kansas City, and she has illustrated a children’s book. Recently, Buchanan was an artist-in-residence at Centrum Residencies in Port Townsend, WA and at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM.

Selected CV

EDUCATION

2025 Master of Fine Arts in Art, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
2022 Bachelor of Arts, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
- Major in Studio Art, minors in Art History and Geology

RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AND WORKSHOPS

2026 Carlsbad Caverns National Park Artist-in-Residence | Carlsbad, NM
2026 Centrum Self-Directed Residency | Port Townsend, WA
2025 Participant, Vice Versa, Just Off Broadway Theatre | Kansas City, MO
2024 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, “Color Theory” Summer Workshop | Snowmass Village, CO
2022 Efroymson Bridge Year Fellowship, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2028 Surface Tensions, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts | Fond du Lac, WI (Forthcoming)
2026 Surface Tensions, Garfield Park Arts Center | Indianapolis, IN
2025 Scenes of a Midwestern Home, Dana Gallery, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 The Value of Nature, Silverwood Park Gallery | St. Anthony, MN
2025 The Great Outdoors, Giertz Gallery, Parkland College | Champaign, IL
2025 Cartoons n’ Cocktails, Group Exhibition curated by Alex Lynn, Muse GR | Grand Rapids, MI
2025 Small Works, National Juried Exhibition, Buckham Gallery | Flint, MI
2025 stop-loss: University of Michigan MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stamps Gallery | Ann Arbor, MI
2025 Logical Fatalist, Group Exhibition by the members of the band Iconic Chronic, curated by Nate Byrne, Sometimes Space | Ypsilanti, MI
2025 Anything That Moves, MFA Online Exhibition, juried by MFA students at University of Montana, Missoula and Montana State University, Bozeman
2024 Putnam County Visual Arts Exhibition, Greencastle Arts Council | Greencastle, IN
2024 Confluences, Solo Exhibition as part of DePauw University’s Heritage in Harmony: Expressions of Indigenous Culture Native American Heritage Month Event, Visual Arts Gallery, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
2024 Anedged: MFA First-Year Exhibition, Faculty and Graduate Studios, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
2023 In/Of/About Nature, Art Saint Louis Gallery | St. Louis, MO
2023 National Society of Arts and Letters Young Adult Exhibition | Bloomington, IN
2023 Lifescapes, Two-Person Exhibition with Emma Pizana, 10 Fold Gallery | Greencastle, IN
2022 Resurfacing: A Senior Art Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
2022 A Midwestern Review, DePauw University’s Literary Journal | Greencastle, IN
2022 Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
2022 DePauw Art Walk, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
2021 Living Local Exhibition, Greencastle Arts Council | Greencastle, IN
2021 ArtConnects: A Virtual Art Exhibition, Virtual
2020 Locality Exhibition, Greencastle Arts Council | Greencastle, IN

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2024 Graduate Student Arts Research Grant, University of Michigan
2024 Center For Japanese Studies Alumni Fellowship Grant, University of Michigan
2024 Jean Paul Slusser MFA First-Year Exhibition Honorable Mention Award, University of Michigan
2024 Smucker-Wagstaff Project Grant, University of Michigan
2024 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Scholarship for “Color Theory” summer workshop, Snowmass Village, CO
2023 Rackham Merit Award, University of Michigan
2023 First Place, Putnam County Visual Arts Exhibition, Greencastle Arts Council
2022 Thomas B. Grooms Art Award, DePauw Department of Art and Art History
2022 Fritz Smith Memorial Art Award, DePauw University
2021 Phi Beta Kappa, DePauw University
2021 Art Department Scholarship, DePauw University
2021 Kappa Pi Inductee, DePauw Department of Art and Art History
2021 Klein Merit Award, National Society of Arts and Letters Young Adult Exhibition, Bloomington, IN
2020 First Place, Locality Exhibition, Greencastle Arts Council, Greencastle, IN
2019 A. Reid Winsey Memorial Art Scholarship, DePauw University

ILLUSTRATIONS

2024 Birth of the Chosen One children’s book by Terry M. Wildman, co-illustrated with Holly Buchanan, Intervarsity Press

2024 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards - Holiday Category
2025 Independent Press Awards - Distinguished Favorite, Childrens: Holiday
2025 Children’s Book Council Favorite - K-2nd Grade Teacher Favorite and Librarian Favorite categories
2025 American Fiction Award - Winner - Children’s Religious category

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Fall 2024 Graduate Student Instructor of Record, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
- Intro to Painting for Non-Majors
Spring 2024 Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
- Sequential Images in Painting
2022-2023 Teaching Assistant, DePauw University | Greencastle, IN
- Intro to Painting and Intermediate/Advanced Painting: Every Painter is a Thief