Patricia Orpilla (b. 1993, Kansas City, MO) is a Filipino-American artist working across painting, printmaking, and textiles to explore the ways material processes transmit histories and transform over time. She works in an interdisciplinary format to collapse the boundaries between media, allowing these seemingly disparate materials to form metaphors for interconnection and entanglement. She refers to string figures, woven techniques, and forms found in nature to create poetic and tactile spaces that reflect on truth, transformation, and the transmission of material narratives.
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; American University Museum at Katzen Art Center, Washington DC; 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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