Patricia Ayres
4-5-3-1-16-9-12-12-1-19, 2024
Elastic, paint, ink, dye, boot polish, US Military parachute hardware, US Military elastic, anointing oil, sacramental wine, iodine, wax, hitching post, hoist hook, padding, wood
37 x 36 x 65 in
94 x 91.4 x 165.1 cm
Patricia Ayres
19-1-2-9-14-1, 2023
elastic, paint, ink, dye, anointing oil, sacramental wine, US Military parachute hardware, padding, wood
85 x 43 x 43 in
215.9 x 109.2 x 109.2 cm
Patricia Ayres
10-15-8-14, 2021
Elastic, military elastic, paint, ink, dye, anointing oil, iodine, gunk, joint compound, metal hardware, thread, wood, padding and foam.
88 x 48 x 46 in
223.5 x 121.9 x 116.8 cm
Patricia Ayres
13-9-3-8-1-5-12, 2021
Elastic, paint, ink, dye, anointing oil, iodine, gunk, metal hardware, thread, wood, padding and foam.
59 x 29 x 21 in
149.9 x 73.7 x 53.3 cm
Patricia Ayres
10-15-19-5-16-8, 2021
Military Elastic, paint, ink, dye, anointing oil, iodine, metal hardware, thread, wood, padding and foam.
95 x 57 x 48 in
241.3 x 144.8 x 121.9 cm
Patricia Ayres
13-1-20-20-8-5-23, 2021
Elastic, paint, ink, dye, anointing oil, iodine, metal hardware, thread, wood, padding and foam.
52 x 14 1/2 x 14 in
132.1 x 36.8 x 35.6 cm
Patricia Ayres (b. New York) is a New York based artist. Ayres attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, a BFA from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and an A.A.S from The Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York.
Solo exhibitions include Articles of the Estranged, Matthew Brown, 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); Control and Constraint, Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY (2018).
Select group exhibitions include Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (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; de la Cruz Collection, Miami, 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.
