Buchanan has exhibited extensively in Europe and in New Zealand. She was represented by Hopkinson Mossman, a contemporary art gallery in New Zealand from 2011-20. In 2018 she was awarded New Zealand's
Walters Prize for her groundbreaking project BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS first shown at Adam Art Gallery, working closely with Judith Hopf and Marianne Wex. She works across exhibition making, writing, design, publishing, and teaching. Her work draws out the contested and dynamic relationship between the body, power, language and the archive. This process of contesting often relates closely to the types of relationships that standardised infrastructures, such as archives, libraries, and museums create between our bodies and society at large and actively asks how these relationships could be otherwise. In 2023 Buchanan moved with her family to New Zealand to take up the role of Director Kaitohu of
Artspace Aotearoa in Auckland. == References ==