Patricia Olynyk Canadian
Works
Overview
Patricia Olynyk’s prints, photographs, and video installations investigate science and technology related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of science, human life, and the natural world. Working across disciplines to develop “third culture” projects, she frequently collaborates with scientists, humanists, and technology specialists. Her multimedia environments call upon the viewer to expand their awareness of the worlds they inhabit—whether those worlds are their own bodies or the spaces that surround them.
Olynyk received her MFA degree with Distinction from the California College of the Arts and spent four years as a Monbusho Scholar and a Tokyu Foundation Research Scholar in Japan. She is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including a Helmut S. Stern Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan and a Francis C. Wood Fellowship at the College of Physicians, Philadelphia. She has held residencies at UCLA’s Design Media Arts Department, the Banff Center for the Arts, Villa Montalvo, California, and the University of Vienna, Austria. Her work has been featured at Palazzo Michiel, Venice in an ancillary exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennial, the Los Angeles International Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, the Saitama Modern Art Museum in Japan, and Museo del Corso in Rome. Her solo exhibitions include: "Sensing Terrains" at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., "Dark Skies" at the Art I Sci Center Gallery at UCLA, and "Transfigurations" at Galeria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo, Japan. Other recent exhibitions include: "Skeptical Inquirers" at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, "Sleuthing the Mind" at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and "Ephemeral: Unraveling History" at the Ruth S. Harley Gallery, Adelphi University, New York. Olynyk is Director of the Graduate School of Art at the Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis.
Olynyk received her MFA degree with Distinction from the California College of the Arts and spent four years as a Monbusho Scholar and a Tokyu Foundation Research Scholar in Japan. She is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including a Helmut S. Stern Fellowship at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan and a Francis C. Wood Fellowship at the College of Physicians, Philadelphia. She has held residencies at UCLA’s Design Media Arts Department, the Banff Center for the Arts, Villa Montalvo, California, and the University of Vienna, Austria. Her work has been featured at Palazzo Michiel, Venice in an ancillary exhibition of the Venice Architecture Biennial, the Los Angeles International Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, the Saitama Modern Art Museum in Japan, and Museo del Corso in Rome. Her solo exhibitions include: "Sensing Terrains" at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., "Dark Skies" at the Art I Sci Center Gallery at UCLA, and "Transfigurations" at Galeria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo, Japan. Other recent exhibitions include: "Skeptical Inquirers" at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, "Sleuthing the Mind" at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery, and "Ephemeral: Unraveling History" at the Ruth S. Harley Gallery, Adelphi University, New York. Olynyk is Director of the Graduate School of Art at the Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis.