Artists

Artists

Ada M. Patterson

B. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados
Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Venue

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130

Monday–Sunday, 10am–5pm

Neighborhood

About the Artist

Ada M. Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London, and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defense, and survival.

Patterson received a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London in 2017 and an MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2020. Her work has been included in various exhibitions internationally; recent exhibitions include Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now at Tate Britain, London, UK; and The Whole World is Turning at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Patterson was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow, and an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam in 2024.

Previous Works

Ada M. Patterson, A Ship of Fools, 2020.

3-channel digital video. Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.

Ada M. Patterson, Kanga for the Present (THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING), 2022.

Gouache, acrylic, colour pencil, ink, pearlescent nail polish on paper; 30 x 40 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.

Ada M. Patterson, The Whole World is Turning, 2019.

Digital video. Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.

Ada M. Patterson, you know a repercussion when you feel one, 2023.

2-channel digital video, steel, acrylic. Image courtesy of the artist and Copperfield, London.