Hales congratulates Ebony G. Patterson on being chosen by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation as a recipient of the 2024 MacArthur Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to extraordinarily talented individuals in a variety of fields who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more.
Patterson is a multimedia artist creating intricate, densely layered, and visually dazzling works that center the culture and aesthetics of postcolonial spaces. Patterson's practice includes painting, photography, video, performance, sculpture, textiles, and installation. Across media, her works address themes of postcolonial space, visibility and invisibility, regeneration and mourning.
Patterson (b. 1981 Kingston, Jamaica) received a BFA in painting at Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica in 2004 before completing an MFA at Sam Fox College, Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 2006. She lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica and Chicago, IL, USA.
Patterson is the Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Director of Prospect.6: The Future is Present; the Harbinger is Home in New Orleans, opening October 30, 2024. Her major survey exhibition …while the dew is still on the roses… opened at Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2018; then toured to Speed Art Museum (2019); and the Nasher Museum (2020). Patterson has had additional solo exhibitions and projects at many US institutions including Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, GA; and SCAD Museum of Art, GA; CAM St. Louis, MO; San Jose ICA, CA; and Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark and The New York Botanical Garden, NY, USA. Dead Treez, Patterson's first large-scale institutional solo show, originated at the Kohler Arts Center (2015) and traveled to Museum of Art and Design (2015); Boston University Art Galleries (2016); and UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo (2017). Patterson's work was included in the Athens, Greece and Liverpool, UK Biennials (2021), Open Spaces Kansas City (2018), the 32nd São Paulo Bienal (2016); the 12th Havana Biennial (2015); Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans (2014), and the Jamaica Biennial (2014).
Patterson's work is included in a number of public collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, VA, USA; Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA; The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, IN, USA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, USA; The Joyce Foundation, IL, USA; Museum of Arts and Design, NY, USA; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, NC, USA; The High Museum, GA, USA; Speed Art Museum, KY, USA; Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA, USA; The Andrew Mellon Foundation, New York, NY, USA; Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa and the National Gallery of Jamaica. Patterson is represented by Hales Gallery, New York/London and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
