diff --git a/torchvision/utils.py b/torchvision/utils.py
index 3a17a46e26e..3ecc3aa3873 100644
--- a/torchvision/utils.py
+++ b/torchvision/utils.py
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ def draw_bounding_boxes(
     if image.size(0) == 1:
         image = torch.tile(image, (3, 1, 1))
 
-    ndarr = image.permute(1, 2, 0).numpy()
+    ndarr = image.permute(1, 2, 0).cpu().numpy()
     img_to_draw = Image.fromarray(ndarr)
 
     img_boxes = boxes.to(torch.int64).tolist()