Ada 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.
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Ada Patterson is an artist and writer based between Barbados, London and Rotterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defence and survival.
Recent projects include: Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbringer is home, Prospect New Orleans Triennial (USA, 2024/2025); Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2025, Netherlands); Resilience, Expo CC Strombeek, Grimbergen (2024, Belgium); Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, The Barbican, London (UK, 2023), and FOMU Antwerp (Belgium, 2024); The Plural of He, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (USA, 2024); 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); 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).
Patterson had been selected for artist residencies internationally, including Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL (2024); Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, hosted by Alice Yard from Trinidad and Tobago (2022), LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy (2022), CCA Glasgow + Primary Performance Residency, Barbados (2022), On Shelter, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands (2021), NLS Kingston Curatorial Fellowship, Kingston, Jamaica (2020).
Patterson has been awarded the Profielprijs Award, Stitching Profiel, at Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands in 2023 and was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow. Her work is held in the collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC (USA), Textile Museum, Tilburg (NL), and private collections including those of Liza Mauer, Bianca Roden,W&Y Cooreman, Lief Djurhuus, S. Davíðsdóttir, R&J Cowan, and TPCA collection.
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 projects include: Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbringer is home, Prospect New Orleans Triennial (USA, 2024/2025); Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2025, Netherlands); Resilience, Expo CC Strombeek, Grimbergen (2024, Belgium); Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, The Barbican, London (UK, 2023), and FOMU Antwerp (Belgium, 2024); The Plural of He, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York (USA, 2024); 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); 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).
Patterson had been selected for artist residencies internationally, including Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL (2024); Documenta Fifteen, Kassel, hosted by Alice Yard from Trinidad and Tobago (2022), LIVE WORKS Free School of Performance, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy (2022), CCA Glasgow + Primary Performance Residency, Barbados (2022), On Shelter, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, Netherlands (2021), NLS Kingston Curatorial Fellowship, Kingston, Jamaica (2020).
Patterson has been awarded the Profielprijs Award, Stitching Profiel, at Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands in 2023 and was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow. Her work is held in the collections of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC (USA), Textile Museum, Tilburg (NL), and private collections including those of Liza Mauer, Bianca Roden,W&Y Cooreman, Lief Djurhuus, S. Davíðsdóttir, R&J Cowan, and TPCA collection.
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 Patterson, Looking for 'Looking for Langston', 2019 Digital Video and photograph
Exhibition view: Ada Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
Ada Patterson, Kanga for the Present (INFINITE GROWING, INFINITE YEARNING), 2019, Mixed media, inkjet on cotton, 100 X 140 cm
Installation view: Ada Patterson: 'The Whole World is Turning' at TENT, Rotterdam (photo: Aad Hoogendoorn)
Ada Patterson, Bikkel, 2018, Digital Video, 00:08:36 (Filmed by Kamali van Bochove)
Ada 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 Patterson, Kanga for the Present (THE WHOLE WORLD IS TURNING), 2019, underdrawing, gouache on paper
Ada Patterson, The Whole World is Turning (still from video), 2019, Digital video, 00:21:02
Exhibition view: Ada Patterson, to be rewritten on banana leaves at Copperfield, London 2022
Ada Patterson, Buchibushi (still from video), 2019, Digital video, Performance, 00:09:40
Ada 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 2023 God forbid you draw attention to yourself, Gemaal op Zuid, Rotterdam, Netherlands 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 2025 Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbringer is home, Prospect New Orleans Triennial, USA Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL Taking Root Among the Stars, W139, Amsterdam, NL 2024 Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbringer is home, Prospect New Orleans Triennial, USA Garden Futures: Designing with Nature, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL Taking Root Among the Stars, W139, Amsterdam, NL Resilience, Expo CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE Wade, Kaplan Gallery, Maryland, USA Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, FOMU Antwerp, Belgium The Plural of He, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA 2023 Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, The Barbican, London, UK Fluid Matters, Grounded Bodies: Decolonizing Ecological Encounters, Gallery 360, Boston, USA 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 To Sea at The Crossover, 38CC, Delft, Netherlands Acknowledge Rebuild: Wunderkammers of Rotterdam’s Colonial Past, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Dolf Henkes Prijs 2023 Exhibition, TENT Rotterdam, 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 Collections Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC (USA) Textile Museum, Tilburg (NL) Private collections include those of: Liza Mauer Bianca Roden W&Y Cooreman Lief Djurhuus S. Davíðsdóttir R&J Cowan TPCA collection Awards 2024 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 2023 Profielprijs Award, Stitching Profiel, at TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow Residencies 2024 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 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 The Need for Alternative Futures - Taking Root Among the Stars, Metropolis M, Katia Krupennikova (2025) Staging Decadence: Ada 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 Patterson by Brianna Baker |