Patricia Orpilla (b. 1993, Kansas City, MO) is a Filipino-American artist who works across painting, printmaking, and textiles. Her interdisciplinary approach aims to translate intangible experiences such as memory, identity, and interconnection into visual language. Orpilla explores the embedded meanings within material histories, especially those shaped by mechanization and cultural memory. By creating poetic and spatial dialogues between materials, she reflects on questions of authorship, cultural transmission, and preservation.
Forthcoming exhibitions are at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY, American University Museum at Katzen Art Center, Washington, D.C., and Chilli Art Projects, London, UK.
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 Jeffrey Deitch, Bard Graduate Center, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; Visitor Center in Newburgh, NY; FORMA Otwarta in Oleśnica, PL; Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, and H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, MO among others. She teaches at New York University, and lives and works in Brooklyn.
Contact at patriciaorpillam@gmail.com. Download CV/Resume.
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