Patricia Orpilla
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On the Nature of Speed II, 2022
Monotype collagraph with oil on paper 24x36in
Living Cloth II, 2022
Monotype collagraph and screen print on paper 21x27in
Egg and Cloth, 2022
Monotype collagraph on paper 16.5x18.75in
Activity, 2022
Monotype collagraph, woodcut, and watercolor on paper 22.5x29.75in
Patricia Orpilla (b. 1993, Kansas City, MO) is a Filipino-American artist who works across painting, printmaking, and textiles. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges craft traditions with conceptual inquiry, exploring how materials embody history and memory. Through themes related to identity, interconnection, and transformation, she creates poetic, tactile spaces that invite reflection on authorship, preservation, and the transmission of narratives within media and material.
Orpilla received an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BFA in painting and creative writing from the Kansas City Art Institute. In 2024, she was awarded a Fields of the Future fellowship at Bard Graduate Center. She was a resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design in 2023, and in 2021 a fellow at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen and Jeffrey Deitch in New York; Visitor Center in Newburgh, NY; Chilli Art Projects, London, UK; FORMA Otwarta in Oleśnica, PL; Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, and H&R Block Artspace in Kansas City, MO among others. Her projects have been featured at Bard Graduate Center and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She teaches at New York University, and lives and works in Brooklyn.
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