Raeghan Buchanan
EXHIBITIONS & CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021, 2018 Co-curator/Founder, POCtober Art interactive digital instagallery@poctoberart
2019 Two-Person Exhibition, Raygun the Savage & Johnny Bryan Art Exhibition, Pain Sugar Gallery, Riverside, CA
2019 I Too Sing America: Harlem Renaissance 100, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2018 The Black Panther: Celebrating 50+ Years of Black Superheroes, King Arts Complex, Columbus, OH
2018 The Force of Fandom, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2018 The Renegades of Renaissance X, The Vanderelli Room, Columbus, OH
2018 How Beautiful Am I: New Interpretations of the Harlem Renaissance, Carnegie Gallery of the Main Columbus Metropolitan Museum, Columbus, OH
2018 SEDGEWICK AVE, An Exhibition of Hip Hop Culture, Blockfort Gallery, Columbus, OH
2017 Wrecka Playa - Album Art in 20 Years, Second Sight Project, Columbus, OH
2017 Solo Exhibition Output Logic: Mixed Media Works, What the Rock?! Gallery, Columbus, OH
2017 Black Power Mixtape, Blockfort Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016 - 2014 Co-curator/Co-founder, annual 3 day FemFest Summer Concert, Art & Workshop Series, multiple venue, Columbus, OH
2014 Be My Valentine, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH
2011 Solo Exhibition, Messages in the Wax, Dreadful Sounds Record Shop, Columbus, OH
2008 WAXploitation...Lost in Transit, Pacific Cafe Lounge, Washington, DC
2008 Agora IIII, Junctionview Studios, Columbus, OH
2008 Art from the Heartland, Rivet Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007 The Annual Thumb Box Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH
2007 Annual Small Works Exhibition, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
2007 Agora III, Junctionview Studios, Columbus, OH
2005 Art for Other People, The Mad Max Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Pinup Girls, The High Five Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 The Bombshell Betty Collection, The High Five Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005 The Passion of the Installation, The BLD, Columbus, OH
SELECTED COMMISSIONS & COMMERCIAL WORK
2022 “Remembering Columbus COVID Memorial,” large-scale mural (41x12), Ganther Building, Walt Neil Mural League, Columbus, OH
2022 “Honoring the Legacy of Zora Neale Hurston,” mural (6x4’), Zora’s House, Columbus, OH
2022 CMOA Summer Celebration Open Studio, live painting exhibition (8x4’), Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2022 “Black Power Circuit Board,” Bronzeville Art on the Park live painted mural for permanent outdoor exhibit (4x4’), MPACC BoxPark, Maroon Arts Group, Columbus, OH
2022 Give Flowers When They’re Due: an Ode to Black History, book illustration, commissioned by the author Tiandra M. Finch
2021 The Keeper, graphic novel, contributing colors, Megascope Imprint at Abrams Books
2021 The Eightfold Path, graphic novel, contributing Illustration, Megascope Imprint at Abrams Books
2019 Voice of Memphis, album artwork, Negro Terror, Memphis, TN
2018 - 2017 Assorted pro-bono illustration work, Black Queer Intersectional Collective, Columbus, OH
2019 “Negro Terror Documentary Film,” contributed illustration, Southern Documentary Project, Memphis, TN
2018 Savage Raygun, double album illustration, OBNOX, Ever/Never Records, New York
2018 Annual Interview Issue, cover illustration, 614 Magazine, Columbus, OH
2017 “Ohio‘s Black Pride 4 were arrested at the Stonewall Columbus Pride Festival and Parade,” illustration, Teen Vogue, teen vogue.com
2017 Nes Wordz Issue, illustration, 614 Magazine, Columbus, OH
2016 Get Right, album illustration, City Mouse, It’s Alive Records, Orange, CA
2015 “Scene & Heard: local musicians creating space for women, transgender, and non-binary artists,” cover illustration, Columbus Alive, Columbus, OH
COLLECTIONS
Streetlight Guild Gallery, Columbus, OH
GRANTS
2022 Greater Columbus Arts Council Support for Professional Artists: Individuals Grant
2022 Streetlight Guild Artist Service Grant
SELECT PRESS
Andy Downing, “POCtober Makes the Leap from Virtual World to Paperback with New Book,” Columbus Alive, April 20, 2022. https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/04/20/poctober-makes-leap-virtual-world-paperback-new-book/7382316001/
“8 Visual Artists of Color That You Need to Follow in 2022,” punkblack.com, December 18, 2021. https://www.punkblack.com/8-visual-artists-of-color-that-you-need-to-follow-in-2022/
The Vanderelli Room, “Reflecting on the Renegades of Renaissance,” artist interview, Columbus, OH, June 2018. https://m.facebook.com/cbusharlem100/videos/reflecting-on-the-renegades-of-renaissance/2090883054498605/
Kayla Merchant, “From the Minds of the Dissenters: The Women of FemFest,” 614 Magazine, Columbus, OH, August 11, 2016. https://614now.com/2016/culture/from-the-minds-of-the-dissenters-the-women-of-femfest
Jim Fischer, “The Short-lived and Eye-popping Art of the Concert Poster,” Columbus Alive, Columbus, OH, April 28, 2016. https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/04/28/the-short-lived-eye-popping/22989301007/
Andy Downing, “Scene & Heard: local musicians creating space for women, transgender, and non-binary artists,” Columbus, OH, Columbus Alive, May 28, 2015. https://issuu.com/columbusdispatch/docs/alive_0528_all-2
Ann Fisher, All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU Radio, Columbus, OH, August 1, 2014. https://ohiochannel.org/programs/program/all-sides-with-ann-fisher-1100-am-all-sides-weekend-local-music-august-1-2014
WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED
2023 (pending publication) The Secret History of Black Punk. Serial Comic. Silver Sprocket.
2022 Strange Glances. Comic. self published, Columbus, OH.
2022 POCtober Sketchbook: Essays on Shoegaze Origins and the Sista Grrrl Riots. Co-authored and illustrated with Frank Lawson, self published, Columbus, OH