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Artist talk at the Museum of Arts and Design. Photo by onwhitewall.com.
Patricia Orpilla (b. Kansas City, MO) is a Filipino-American artist who works in an interdisciplinary process to create paintings, prints, installations, and objects that translate intangible experiences such as grief, identity, and cultural memory into visual language. She engages the spatial and poetic connections between material histories to create metaphors about the human condition. By examining materials that are infused in mechanized labor, and rooted within cultural memory, she prompts questions about authorship, industry, and preservation.
Orpilla received her MFA from Yale School of Art and her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute. She was awarded a Fields of the Future fellowship at Bard Graduate Center in 2024. In 2023, she was a resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design, and in 2021 a fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her work has been shown at Bard Graduate Center Library and Jeffrey Deitch in New York; FORMA Otwarta in Oleśnica, Poland; Visitor Center in Newburgh, New York; Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, and H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, among others. She is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU, and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Contact at patriciaorpillam@gmail.com. Download CV/Resume.