Andrew Patterson

b. Toronto, ON, Canada

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. His practice synthesizes his formal art training in painting and drawing with his experience as a professional graphic designer to erase boundaries separating different modes of making.

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 bridge between his practice and his design work blossomed with the co-founding of his creative agency Wysp Creative, which has hosted pop-ups, exhibitions, and photo shoots, as well as providing studio space and full-service print production for local artists. He became the inaugural artist-in-residence at Collective Arts Toronto in 2022.

Starting in 2015, Andrew began working with Toronto non-profit Jamii Esplanade, a lauded public arts organization creating local cultural programming across the visual arts, music, performance, and craft. They have collaborated on several community murals, traveling 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 completed his MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (NYC).
Andrew lives and works between Toronto and NYC.