Patricia Ayres (b. New York) is a New York based artist. Ayres received an AAS from The Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York; a BFA from Brooklyn College, City University of New York; an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York; and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Public Art Commission at the High Line, New York, New York, (forthcoming)

Solo exhibitions and presentations include though poppies grow, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels (2025) ; Unrequited Remnants, Tank Shanghai (2024); Articles of the Estranged, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Singular Views: 25 Artists, Rubell Museum, Washington, D.C., (2023); Critical Mass, Mendes Wood DM, New York, NY (2023); New Acquisitions, Rubell Museum, Miami, FL (2022); Bound, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021)

Select group exhibitions include: Material Worlds, Lustwarande, Tilburg, The Netherlands (forthcoming); Tense, Ontsteking, Ghent, Belgium (forthcoming); Made in Tension, The Soloviev Foundation Gallery, New York, NY; The Impossible Order of the World, Contemporary Art, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina; to ignite our skin, SculptureCenter, Queens, NY (2025); Material Witness, Rubell Museum, Washington, DC, (2025); Infanta with Tiny Bell, Wschód, NY (2025); Once Within a Time, SITE SANTA FE 12th International Biennial, curated by Cecelia Alemani (2025); Invisible Luggage, Hampton House, Miami, (2025); Toward the Celestial: ICA Miami’s Collection at 10 Years, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2024); Program, Matthew Brown, New York (2024); Flesh & Flowers Made in America, Curated by Lauren Taschen, No Name Creative Projects, Paris, France (2023); Field of Vision, Curated by Tina Pētersone, Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia (2023); House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2023); Paper Trails, Mendes Wood DM, d’Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement, The Netherlands (2023); The Last Days of a House, Fountainhead Biennial, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL (2023); Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender, Curated by Mara Hassan, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (2023); Esfingico Frontal, (Frontal Sphinx), Curated by Germano Dushá, Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo, Brazil (2023); Together, At The Same Time, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL (2022); Matter & Form, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL (2022); Some Kind of Monster Roster, Analog Diary, Beacon, NY (2022); Reflections Part 3: Sculpture by Women Artists, Workplace, London, England (2022); Recent Sculpture, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); This Basic Asymmetry, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA (2022); It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Entering A Song, Koenig and Clinton Gallery, New York, NY (2019)

Ayres was an artist-in residence at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY (2022); Shandaken: Storm King Sculpture Park, New Windsor, NY (2022); Fountainhead, Miami, FL (2022); Monira Foundation, Jersey City, NJ (2021); The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, New York, NY (2020); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Studio Residency, North Adams, MA (2019). She is the recipient of UrbanGlass Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY (2023); New York Foundation of the Arts, Artist Fellowship in Craft/Sculpture, Brooklyn, NY (2020); and a nominee for Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, New York, NY (2019)

Her work is included in the collections of the Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL, Washington, D.C.; Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland; TANK Shanghai, China; and Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia