Visiting Artist Lecture: Patte Loper

Patte Loper is an interdisciplinary artist based in painting who experiments with sculpture and video to explore a range of subject matter including feminist utopianism and the environmental humanities. She was born in Colorado and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, a subtropical college town where she first developed an appreciation for the ways nature and culture can overlap. She currently lives and works in New York City and Boston, MA where she is on the faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Recent exhibitions have created science fiction characters out of mushrooms, depicted land masses as living bodies, and investigated graveyards as sites of shifting time and more-than-human entanglements.

She has shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Drawing Center (New York, NY), the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art and Design (Portland, ME) the Bronx Museum (Bronx, NY), the Bellevue Arts Museum (Bellevue, WA), the Licini Museum (Ascoli Piceno, Italy), the PalaentologicalMuseum (Cortina, Italy), and the Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA).

She is currently developing her ongoing project, Laboratory for Other Worlds, for exhibitions at the NYU Gallatin School of Interdisciplinary Study and as part of Yale University’s Institute for Sacred Music Environmental Cosmologies Visual Art and Material Culture series.