Born in 1940, Patricia Tobacco Forrester earned a BA from Smith College and a BFA and MFA from Yale University. She lives and works in Washington, DC, and is represented by Addison Ripley Fine Arts, Washington, DC.
Recent one-person exhibitions include Addison Ripley Fine Arts, Washington, DC; Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York; Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; and Fischbach Gallery, New York. Selected group exhibitions include Green Woods & Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition, Philbrook Museum of Art, OK; Outward Bound, Meridian International Center and traveled abroad to Vietnam, China, and Singapore; Gardener's Delight, National Museum for Women in the Arts, DC; and A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, Currier Gallery, NH. Her work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco; National Museum of American Art; The Brooklyn Museum of Art; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She has been the recipient of residencies of Djerrassi Foundation; Mac Dowall Colony; and the Yaddo Foundation; and has also won a Guggenheim Fellowship.
