Ron Buffington teaches Painting and Drawing at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, TN.
He received his MFA from the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Buffington’s work has been featured in numerous curated exhibitions, including: The Shadow’s Body: Painting’s Allegorical Impulse at Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN; Primarily Painting at Muse, Philadelphia, PA; Aloe Vera at Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX; and Tennessee Abstract Painting at the Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN. Buffington has participated in residencies at: the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Canada; Mudhouse in Agios Ioannis, Crete; SÍM in Reykjavík, Iceland; Fjúk in Husavík, Iceland; Vermont Studio Center in Johnson,VT; and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. His collages repurpose and reinscribe cultural flotsam to interrogate obdurate habits of thought.
