Patricia Orpilla (b. 1993, Kansas City, MO) is a Filipino-American artist who works across painting, printmaking, and textiles. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges craft traditions with conceptual inquiry, exploring how materials embody history and memory. Through themes related to identity, interconnection, and transformation, she creates poetic, tactile spaces that invite reflection on authorship, preservation, and the transmission of narratives within media and material.
Forthcoming exhibitions are Fabricated Boundaries at American University Museum at Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC and KCAI Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
Orpilla received an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BFA in painting and creative writing from the Kansas City Art Institute. In 2024, she was awarded a Fields of the Future fellowship at Bard Graduate Center. She was a resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2023, and in 2021 a fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen and Jeffrey Deitch in New York; Visitor Center in Newburgh, NY; Chilli Art Projects, London, UK; FORMA Otwarta in Oleśnica, PL; Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, and H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, MO among others. Her projects have been featured at Bard Graduate Center and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She teaches at New York University, and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Contact at patriciaorpillam@gmail.com. Download CV/Resume.
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