Andrew Patterson

b. Toronto, ON, Canada
Currently based in Brooklyn, NYC

Andrew Patterson is a Canadian visual artist, designer, and educator exploring themes of ambiguity and plurality through the lens of multi-racial identity and cultural syncretism.

Andrew has exhibited and curated both in the United States and Canada, including many solo, split, and group exhibitions in New York City and Toronto. He has won back to back awards for public arts proposals from NXT City in Toronto (2016, 2017), and has been recognized for his design work on DesignRush in ‘22 and ‘23. The connection between his practice and his design work grew with the co-founding of his creative shop Wysp Creative, which would go on to host pop-ups, exhibitions, and photoshoots, as well as providing studio space and full-service print production for local artists in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto. He became the inaugural artist-in-residence at Collective Arts Toronto in 2022, and belongs to the Toronto studio collective Flick the Switch, founded by Susan N. Stewart.

Starting in 2015, Andrew began working with Toronto non-profit Jamii Esplanade, a wonderful grassroots public arts organization creating local cultural programming across the visual arts, music, performance, and craft. They have collaborated on several community murals, travelling theatre hubs, and international community exchange projects, as well as countless round tables, exhibits, and workshops. This growing love for community work and paying it forward as a part of his evolving practice would eventually lead him into formal academic teaching.

Andrew began teaching Illustration Disciplines and Design Principles at Sheridan College’s celebrated Illustration BAA program in 2020. He holds a BAA in both Animation and Illustration respectively from Sheridan College (Toronto), and is working through completing his MFA in Fine Arts Studio Practice at the School of Visual Arts (NYC).

Andrew lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.