ADA M. PATTERSON
b. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Lives and works between Rotterdam, Barbados and London.
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b. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Lives and works between Rotterdam, Barbados and London.
IMAGES CV
Ada M. Patterson is an artist and writer working with masquerade, performance, poetry, textiles and video, looking at the ways storytelling can limit, enable and complicate identity formation. Her recent work considers grief, elegy writing and archiving as tools for disrupting the disappearance of communities queered by different experiences of crisis.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Re-sisters, The Barbican, London, UK (current), Textile Now: each thread tells a story, Textiel Museum, Tilurg (2023, Netherlands), Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (2022. UK), How dare you make me feel this way, Museum Arnhem, Utrechseweg (2023, Netherlands), and Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario (2022, Canada), Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022, Germany), and The Whole World is Turning, TENT, Rotterdam (2020, Netherlands).
To view her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
To view her most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Re-sisters, The Barbican, London, UK (current), Textile Now: each thread tells a story, Textiel Museum, Tilurg (2023, Netherlands), Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (2022. UK), How dare you make me feel this way, Museum Arnhem, Utrechseweg (2023, Netherlands), and Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario (2022, Canada), Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022, Germany), and The Whole World is Turning, TENT, Rotterdam (2020, Netherlands).
To view her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
To view her most recent group exhibition with the gallery please click here.
Ada M. Patterson, Looking for 'Looking for Langston', 2019 Digital Video and photograph
Exhibition view: Ada M. Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
Ada M. Patterson, Kanga for the Present (INFINITE GROWING, INFINITE YEARNING), 2019, Mixed media, inkjet on cotton, 100 X 140 cm
Installation view: Ada M Patterson: 'The Whole World is Turning' at TENT, Rotterdam (photo: Aad Hoogendoorn)
Ada M. Patterson, Bikkel, 2018, Digital Video, 00:08:36 (Filmed by Kamali van Bochove)
Ada M. Patterson, Looking for "Looking for Langston”, 2019, Three photographs, digital C-prints on paper, Installation at Tate Britain: Life Between Islands, Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now
Ada M. Patterson, Kanga for the Present (THE WHOLE WORLD IS TURNING), 2019, underdrawing, gouache on paper
Ada M. Patterson, The Whole World is Turning (still from video), 2019, Digital video, 00:21:02
Exhibition view: Ada M. Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
Ada M. Patterson, Buchibushi (still from video), 2019, Digital video, Performance, 00:09:40
Ada M. Patterson, KANGA FOR THE PRESENT (The Girls Are Fighting), 2022, Mixed media ink jet on silk, 110 x 140 cm
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Solo Exhibitions
2022 'to be rewritten on banana leaves', Copperfield, London, UK Kanga for the Present, Manifold Books, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2021 Kanga for the Present, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands 2020 The Whole World is Turning, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2019 Things You Threw in the Gully, Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands Group Exhibitions 2023 Re-sisters, The Barbican, London, UK Transatlantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, presented by 1-54, Christie's, London, UK Textile Now: each thread tells a story, Textiel Museum, Tilurg, the Netherlands Acknowledge Rebuild: Wunderkammers of Rotterdam’s Colonial Past, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands KaplanKaplan, Copperfield, London, UK How dare you make me feel this way, Museum Arnhem, Utrechseweg, Netherlands 2022 Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany At Peace II, Two Queens Studio, Leicester, UK Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters, The Gallatin Galleries, New York, USA Live Works Vol. 9, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario, Canada Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London, UK A Paradise for the Smiling Alligators, Lecce Art Week, Italy 2021 Worlds between Words, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam In the Eye of the Storm, Z33 Kunstcentrum, Hasselt Belgium Re: Re: Re: Re:, Mourning School, Galleri Nef, Stockholm, Sweden 2020 Departures, Expoplu, Nijmegen, Netherlands To that Special Someone, part II, Hotel Maria Kapel, Netherlands 2019 Mood Ring, Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands Edge of an Era: Archive, Live Art Development Agency, London, UK Sailors, Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago 2018 Sensational Bodies, Jerwood Space, London, UK Caribbean Linked V, Caya Grandi & Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba I’m Not Who You Think I’m Not #14, Berlin Biennale X, ZKU, Berlin, Germany Artistic Interventions, The Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados Punch-In 2 Reveal, Morningside Gallery, Barbados 2017 Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk Art Platform, Barbados Sonic Soundings: Venice Trajectories, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Awards 2023 Profielprijs Award, Stitching Profiel, at TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow Residencies 2022 Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel, Germany LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy CCA Glasgow + Primary Performance Residency, Barbados 2021 On Shelter, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands Residency and collection assignment at the TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial Fellowship, Kingston, Jamaica 2019 Hamburger Community of Art, Roodkapje Rotterdam, Netherlands Studium Witte de With: Parallel Curriculum, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Selected Press Staging Decadence: Ada M. Patterson - in conversation with Rachel Hann NY Times: Navigating Worlds an Ocean Apart, Through Art "In this writer's vision of our climate future, trans girls are the only survivors" - interview with Ada M. Patterson by Brianna Baker |