American, b. 1963
Patricia Cronin is a New York based conceptual visual artist. Since the early-90's, Cronin has garnered international attention for her photographs, paintings and sculptures that address contemporary human rights issues of gender and sexuality. Slyly reinvigorating traditional images and forms with social justice themes, her critically acclaimed statue, Memorial To A Marriage, a 3 ton Carrara marble mortuary sculpture of her life partner and herself was made before gay marriage was legal in the U.S., and has been exhibited widely across the country and abroad. Cronin began her career working for the Anne Frank House installing the traveling exhibition Anne Frank in the World in Europe and the U.S.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2007), where she is now a trustee, an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (2012), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2007), and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (1998, 1995), among others.
She received a BFA from Rhode Island College, was awarded a Battell Stoeckel Fellowship at Yale University, studied at Skowhegan School of Art and received a MFA from Brooklyn College. She has been on the graduate faculty at both Columbia University and Yale University, and is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York since 2003.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome (2007), where she is now a trustee, an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant (2012), a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant (2007), and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants (1998, 1995), among others.
She received a BFA from Rhode Island College, was awarded a Battell Stoeckel Fellowship at Yale University, studied at Skowhegan School of Art and received a MFA from Brooklyn College. She has been on the graduate faculty at both Columbia University and Yale University, and is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York since 2003.
