Patricia was born in Philadelphia and raised in Ireland. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area. She is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and designer. Her photography primarily explores themes related to belonging, memory structures, and cultural identity, with a focus on the connections between the past and the present.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with notable recognitions and awards, including Critical Mass finalist in 2023, overall winner and category winner in The Pollux Awards 2023, and honorable mention in The Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2023. She has had work chosen for numerous juried exhibitions including the Royal Hibernian Academy 2024, ’23, ’21 and the Royal Ulster Academy in 2023. She also received Honorable Mention in Photographer of the Year 2023, All About Photo, and her series Between Then & Now has been showcased in All About Photo and Lenscratch in 2024.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS, & AWARDS
2024 Griffin Museum | 30th Annual Members Juried Exhibition
2024 Arts Council Northern Ireland Collection, Artist of the Month April 2024
2024 Second Glance: First Look 2024, Juried exhibition Panopticon Gallery
2024 Honorable Mention: Luminosity, Curated by Stephon Perloff, New York Center for Photographic Art,
2024 Portals & Doors, Curated by Roula Seikaly, Photo Place Gallery
2024 Photographic Performance 2024 Juried exhibition A. Smith Gallery (top 15 placement)
2023 Overall Winner
20th Pollux Awards, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Curated by Frank Meo, Julio Hirsch-Hardy. Fotonostrum, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Honorable Mention
20th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, Curated by Elizabeth Avedon, Ann Jastrab, Elizabeth Krist. Fotonostrum, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Critical Mass Finalist, Photolucida
2023 In Between Moments, Curated by Aline Smithson, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis
2023 Royal Ulster Academy Annual Juried Exhibition at The Ulster Museum, Ireland
2023 Light, Curated by Douglas Beasley, SE Center for Photography, South Carolina
2023 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Honorable Mention
The Artist Intervenes, Curated by Aline Smithson, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis
2023 Honorable Mention
Home: Poetics of Place, Curated by Praxis Gallery Directors, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis
2023 Honorable Mention
Portraits, Self & Others, Curated by, Aline Smithson, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont,
2022 Poetry of the Ordinary, Curated by Henry Horenstein, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont,
2022 Short-listed, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Annual Members Exhibition, Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia
2022 Conversations with the Archive, Curated by Aline Smithson, SE Center for Photography, South Carolina
2022 Black White & Monochrome, Curated by Douglas Beasley, SE Center for Photography, South Carolina
2021 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2021 In The Commons, Curated by Lori Waselchuck, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2021 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2021 20/20 Photo Festival, Curated by Cynthia Rivera, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia
2019 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2018 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2016 Swing State, Curated by Rebecca Flake, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Lenscratch, Focus on Aging: Between Then & Now,
Curated by Beate Sass & Ruth Steinberg
2024 All About Photo.com, Between Then & Now
2024 Lenscratch, Favorite Photograph You Took in 2023
2023 All About Photo, Honorable Merit Mention: Photographer of the Year Awards 2023
2023 Lenscratch, The 2023 Love Exhibition
2023 Lenscratch, Favorite Photograph You Took in 2022