Patricia Olynyk

Patricia Olynyk es un artista que tiene su sede en St. Louis y Nueva York. Dirige la Escuela Superior de Arte de la Universidad de Washington en St. Louis, donde también es profesor de Florencia y Frank Bush de Arte. Ella tiene un fuerte compromiso de llevar disciplinas juntos y ha programado el arte, la ciencia y la tecnología de los planes de estudio, simposios y becas en varias instituciones de investigación, como la Universidad de Washington, UCLA y la Universidad de Michigan, donde antes tenía citas conjuntas en la Escuela de Arte & Design and the Life Sciences Institute. Working across campus and with university partners to develop “third culture” collaborations, she was one of the first artists in the US to be appointed to a scientific unit. Olynyk is also Co-Director of the NY LASER program in New York with Ellen K. Levy and former Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (Leonardo/ISAST).

Olynyk completed her undergraduate studies in Canada, received her MFA degree with Distinction from the California College of the Arts and then spent four years as a Monbusho Scholar and Tokyu Foundation Research Scholar in Japan. Her work explores art, science, and technology-related themes that examine the dialectics of natural/artificial, cognition/affect, and mind/body. She has exhibited her work widely and her solo and two person shows include: Sensing Terrains at the National Academy of Sciences, Transfigurations at Galleria Grafica Tokio, Probe at Bruno David Gallery, and Some Provocations from Skeptical Inquirers at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery in New York. Her work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museo del Corso in Rome, the Universität der Künste in Berlin, the Saitama Modern Art Museum in Japan and the L.A. International Biennial Invitational. She has held residencies at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, The Banff Center for the Arts in Canada, Villa Montalvo in California, and the Design Media Arts Department and the Art Sci Center at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.