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 in 2019
Solo exhibitions and presentations include 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 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); 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; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL, Washington, D.C.; Muzeum Susch, Zernez, Switzerland; TANK Shanghai, China; and Zuzeum, Riga, Latvia.
Ayres will present solo exhibitions at TANK Shanghai this November and at Mendes Wood DM in Brussels in 2025.