Multidisciplinary artist Daisy Patton was born in Los Angeles, CA to a white mother from the American South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood moving between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these cultural landscapes and the ambiguous absences within her family. Influenced by collective and political histories, Patton explores storytelling and story-carrying, aspects of the family, and what shapes living memory. Her work also examines in-between spaces and identities, including the fallibility of the body as a disabled person and the complexities of relationship and connection.
Based in western MA, Patton has exhibited in solos such as at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Rowe Gallery at the University of North Carolina Charlotte, the Harold J. Miossi Gallery at Cuesta College, and the Chautauqua Institution. Her work has also been shown in a two-person exhibition with Alicia Brown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at UMass Amherst, as well as group shows with MCA Denver, Spring/Break NYC, the Tampa Museum of Art, Utah MOCA, the Katonah Museum of Art, The Delaware Contemporary, the International Museum of Science and Art, among others. Patton’s work is held in public and private collections such as the Denver Art Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, UMCA at UMass Amherst, the Ulrich Museum of Contemporary Art at Wichita State University, Mattatuck Museum, Seattle University, Fidelity Investments, and in international airport Boston Logan with Delta Airlines, among others. Patton’s work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Harvard University’s Transition Magazine, The Denver Post, The Chautauquan Daily, and more. Minerva Projects Press published Broken Time Machines: Daisy Patton, a book with essays and poetry on Patton’s practice spring 2021.
Patton earned her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program, and has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History and Art History and an Honors degree. She has completed artist residencies at Anderson Ranch, the Studios at MASS MoCA, RedLine Denver, Minerva Projects, and Eastside International in Los Angeles. She has been awarded grants including from Massachusetts Cultural Council, SMFA at Tufts Travel Fellowship 2025, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Assets for Artists Massachusetts Matched Savings, as well as longlisted for the Aesthetica Prize 2022.
