Patrick Costello is an artist whose work comes alive through multi-species collaborative relationships, integrating practices of ecological horticulture, installation, printmaking, and performance.
Patrick’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; 601 Artspace, New York; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA; Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. Patrick has performed in venues including Ars Nova, New York, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Public Theater, New York, NY; and at intentional communities, squats, and underground venues around the world.
Most recently, Patrick was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, which supported research on a project about queer artists throughout history who have designed and cultivated gardens — a multidisciplinary piece about inheritance, landscape, and caretaking across generations. Recognizing that gardens reflect a value of community care while also illustrating their cultivator’s political, social, and economic positions, these spaces are lush fragments of cultural inheritance and botanical wonder. Compiling research from primary source documents including garden plans and photographs, Patrick is building an archive that will eventually culminate in an outdoor installation faithfully recreating a series of artist-gardens.
Patrick completed an MFA in Combined Media at Hunter College in 2018 and earned a BA in Printmaking from the University of Virginia in 2008.
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