LB BUCHAN lbuchan.sculpture@pm.me | IG @lbuchansculpture
EDUCATION
2007 BA, focus in Sculpture and Printmaking, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
SELECT AWARDS
2024 Emerging Artist Tools and Equipment Grant recipient, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN
2023 Emerging Artist Cohort & Grant recipient, American Craft Council, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Artist in Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA, 2021
2019 Artist in Residence, Buffalo Creek Art Center, Gardnerville, NV
Grant Recipient, 2019 Grant for 3D/Sculpture, Allied Arts Foundation, Seattle, WA
2018 Artist in Residence, Brushcreek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY
2015 Artist in Residence, Willapa Bay AIR, Oysterville, WA,
SELECT SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Conversation of Body, Cannon Gallery, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR
2022 Nekton, Portland International Airport, Portland, OR
2021 Callosum, CCAI Courthouse Gallery, Carson City, NV
2020 Array, Talon Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Archive, Fieldwork Design, Portland, OR (with Bear Medina)
Zoe Keller & LB Buchan, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Corpora, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
Votive, Betty Feves Memorial Gallery, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR
Effigy & Idol, Antler Gallery, Portland, OR (with Jason Borders)
2016 Reveal, Skylab Architecture, Portland, OR
2015 Debris, Good: A Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Segments, Beam & Anchor, Portland, OR
2013 LB Buchan & Karl Kaiser, RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, OR
Rosalie Whitney & LB Buchan, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR
2012 LB Buchan, Beam & Anchor, Portland, OR
Artist Spotlight: LB Buchan, Northwest Woodworkers’ Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECT INVITATIONALS
2026 Congruencies | Trans:Form(ed), The Reser, Beaverton, OR
2025 Open / Closed, AAW Gallery of Wood Art, Landmark Center and AAW International Woodturning Symposium, Saint Paul RiverCentre,
Saint Paul, MN (catalogue)
2023 Sitka Art Invitational 2023, 2022, Oregon Contemporary, and 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, World Forestry Center, Portland, OR
2020 Wild at Heart: Naturally Inspired, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
2018 Look & Listen: Investigating social justice through visual art & new music, Church of the Beatitudes, Phoenix, and Gloria Dei Lutheran Church,
Paradise Valley, AZ
2017 An Evening of New Designs, FAIR, New York Design Center, New York City, NY
2014 It’s All in the Details, Northwest Woodworkers’ Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 Lost & Found, Northwest Woodworkers’ Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009 Hard Soft Cold: A Group Show, Alpern Gallery, Portland, OR
SELECT JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Affinity, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR (with Bear Medina and Erin Hiser)
2024 Clark County Open Studios Tour, Vancouver, WA
Clark County Open Studios Preview Exhibition, Art at the Cave, Vancouver, WA
2020 With Bated Breath, Gallery 114, Portland, OR
2019 Off the Wall, Columbia Center for the Arts, Hood River, OR
Nasty Women, Eutectic Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 WHY WOOD? Contemporary Practice in a Timeless Material, SOFA, Chicago, IL (Juror: Jennifer-Navva Milliken, Executive Director and Chief
Curator of the Museum for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA) (catalogue)
Exuviae, 2016 Seattle Center Sculpture Walk, Fisher Pavilion, Seattle, WA, Acquired in 2019 by Clark College as part of permanent collection
2015 INTERSTATE, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, First Place Award (Juror: Jennifer-Navva Milliken)
2014 2014 BAM Biennial: Knock on Wood, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
SELECT PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2024 Visiting Artist, (presentation, critiques, workshop), Frostic School of Art, Western Michigan University, MI, April 1-3, 2024
2021 Visiting Instructor, Botanical Sculpture: An Introduction to Carving, June 14 - 18, 2021, Port Townsend School of Woodworking,
Port Townsend, WA
Guest Artist (presentation), Lesley Art and Design, Boston, MA
2019 2019 Summer Artist Lecture Series (presentation), Carson City, NV
2015 Symposium: Knock on Wood (presentation and panelist), Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2023 Lina Lopes, Nathan Rabinovitch, & Recy Freire, World of the Madieros, Faber-Castell, published 2023, 35
2021 Chris Lanier, Pauses in the Continuum, Capitol City Arts Initiative, commissioned essay
2019 Larisa Safaryan, Masters of Contemporary Wood Art, Annual Catalogue, 2019, Issue 2, 116, 2018 Issue 1, 113
2018 Tammy Malgesini, Beauty in the details, East Oregonian, September 22, 2018, 3C
2017 Peggy Dills Kelter, Sculpting the Natural World, The Gorge Magazine, Fall 2017, 26
2015 Jones, Illustrious Woodworker, TECHMAG, June 2015, 88 (Chinese publication)
Dakota Sexton, Natural Curiosity, American Craft, April/May 2015, 34
2014 Rebecca Klassen, Bone Matters, American Art Collector, December 2014, 212