 While a student at the Royal Academy, Buus was awarded the 2008 Caspar David Friedrich Prize in Greifswald, northern Germany which led to a solo exhibition "Expanding Nature" there the following year.Her first major solo exhibition in Denmark was "Colour me Blind" (2011) at the Galleri Christina Wilson in Copenhagen.Her works exploited the juxtaposition of colours, apparently revealing tones that were not really present.