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ADA M. PATTERSON

b. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados.
Lives and works between Rotterdam, Barbados and London.



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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 Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (UK), Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel (Germany), The Whole World is Turning, TENT, Rotterdam (Netherlands), How dare you make me feel this way, Museum Arnhem, Utrechseweg (Netherlands), and Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario (Canada).



To view her most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

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Ada M. Patterson, Looking for 'Looking for Langston', 2019 Digital Video and photograph
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Exhibition view: Ada M. Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
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Ada M. Patterson, Kanga for the Present (INFINITE GROWING, INFINITE YEARNING), 2019, Mixed media, inkjet on cotton, 100 X 140 cm
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installation view: Ada M Patterson: 'The Whole World is Turning' at TENT, Rotterdam (photo: Aad Hoogendoorn)
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Ada M. Patterson, Bikkel, 2018, Digital Video, 00:08:36 (Filmed by Kamali van Bochove)
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Ada M. Patterson, Kanga for the Present (THE WHOLE WORLD IS TURNING), 2019, underdrawing, gouache on paper
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Ada M. Patterson, The Whole World is Turning (still from video), 2019, Digital video, 00:21:02
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Exhibition view: Ada M. Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
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Ada M. Patterson, Buchibushi (still from video), 2019, Digital video, Performance, 00:09:40




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
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
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