Patrick Quarm
Patrick Quarm interlaces cultural symbols from diverse eras and communities into multilayered works that invite viewers to explore from multiple perspectives. Through his paintings, Quarm investigates themes of cultural authenticity and hybridity. Painting his subjects directly onto layered and spliced African print fabrics, he juxtaposes the realism of his portraits with the geometric abstraction of the textiles, emphasizing the fluid nature of identity. His subjects—ranging from self-portraits to family groups—engage in a dynamic dialogue both with each other and with the patterned fabrics, emerging from or blending into the intricate designs.
Quarm holds a BFA in Painting from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and an MFA from Texas Tech University. His recent institutional exhibitions include presentations at the Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, TX; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, DE; Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI; Contemporary Art Museum Plainview, Plainview, TX; and the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI. Quarm’s work is held in public collections such as the Syracuse University Museum, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and Kemper Museum. He has exhibited with prominent galleries such as Gagosian, London, UK; Sean Kelly, New York, NY; Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York, NY; and Albertz Benda, New York, NY. He participated in the Red Bull Artist Residency in Detroit (2019) and was awarded the prestigious NXTHVN Fellowship (2021–2022). Quarm currently lives and works between Ghana and the United States.
PATRICK QUARM
Born in 1988 in in Sekondi, GH
Currently lives and works between Ghana and the United States
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Painting and Drawing, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2012 BFA Painting, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology, Kumasi, GH
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Phantoms in Familiar Terrains, albertz benda, New York, NY
SILHOUETTES: Tracing Memory, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
2020 Salvaged Imperial, albertz benda, New York, NY
2019 Patrick Quarm: Paradox: Surfaces of Self, N’Namdi
Contemporary, Miami, FL
Conrad Egyir & Patrick Quarm: Anansesem,
albertz benda, New York
2018 Parallel Identities: Patterns of Place, Satellite Gallery,
Lubbock, TX
2017 There is Only One Side, CASP Studio 4, Lubbock, TX.
Curated by Victoria Marie Bee
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Space We Exist, Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Heather
Guidio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
Spring International Artist in Residence, Curated by
Larry Ossei-Mensah, Artpace, San Antonio, TX
Neo-Custodianss, Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural
Memory, and Belonging, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
2023 Narrative Threads, Fiber Art Today, Moody Center for the Arts
– Rice University, Houston, TX
Rites of Passage, Curated by Peju Oshin, Gagosian,
London, UK
Present 23, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit, Cranbrook Art
Museum, Detroit, MI
Filling in the Pieces in Black, Saatchi Gallery, Brussels, DE
2022 Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century, Kalamazoo
Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
Undercurrents, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Family Ties, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2021 ONTOLOGY, Ross and Kramer Gallery, New York, NY
Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, Trout Museum of
Art, Appleton, WI
THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, DE
2020 Fragmented Bodies, albertz benda, New York, NY
Translating Valence, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts,
Grand Rapids, MI
More is More, Contemporary Art Museum Plainview,
Plainview, TX
BLACK VOICES/ BLACK MICROCOSM, CFHILL,
Stockholm, SE
Insight, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2019 SNOW DAY, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY.
Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum
Plainview, Plainview, TX
2018 HOMEMADE, Curated by McArthur Binion, Library Street Art
Collective, Detroit, MI
PLACE, Curated by Asia Hamilton, Norwest Gallery,
Detroit, MI
Oso Bay Biennial XX: Realism Redux, Texas A&M University,
Corpus Christi, TX
Rising Eyes of Texas, Curated by Rainey Knudson, Rockport
Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
West Meets West: Illuminated Figures, Caviel Museum of
African America History, Lubbock, TX.
2016 Annual MFA Show, Landmark Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2015 Annual MFA Show, Landmark Gallery, Lubbock, TX
2013 Art, Trade &Technology Fair, K.N.U.S.T Museum,
Kumasi, GH
2012 End of Year, K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi, GH
2011 Illumination, K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi, GH
Art, Trade &Technology Fair, K.N.U.S.T Museum,
Kumasi, GH
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2019 Red Bull House of Art Artist in Residence, Detroit, MI
2018 Thomas ‘Curry’ Roberts- Regent Endowment Art
Scholarship, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2017 Alan and Lee Ann White Regents Endowment Visual & Performing Arts, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Graduate Fellowship Award, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX
2016 Graduate Fellowship Award, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX
Helen Devitt Jones Talent Based Scholarship, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX
2015 Graduate Fellowship Award, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX
Helen Devitt Jones Talent Based Scholarship, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX
2006 Visual Art Student Award, Prempeh College, Kumasi, GH