Ada M. Patterson
b. 1994, Barbados
Ada M. Patterson is an artist and writer working with masquerade, performance, poetry, textiles and video, looking at the ways storytelling can limit, enable and complicate identity formation. Her recent work considers grief, elegy writing and archiving as tools for disrupting the disappearance of communities queered by different experiences of crisis.
Recent and upcoming projects include Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (UK), Alice Yard, documenta fifteen, Kassel (Germany), The Whole World is Turning, TENT, Rotterdam (Netherlands), How dare you make me feel this way, Museum Arnhem, Utrechseweg (Netherlands), and Here Comes the Sun, Art Gallery of Burlington, Ontario (Canada)