Bio
Nick Patterson (b. 1986, Hamilton, ON.) lives and works on the unceded territories of the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSANEC peoples, otherwise known as Victoria. He creates installations that blend reality and fiction, future and past, to generate an atemporal environment in which the viewer experiences a dark mirror of contemporary life where familiar notions of work and home are assimilated by a future which requires new ways of understanding. Rapidly shifting environmental, social, and technological landscapes have prompted him to create works where viewers can experience possible futures and reconcile with strangeness as a way to inoculate against fear of a changing world.
He has presented drawing, installation, and video works in group shows at the University of Victoria, and has exhibited solo exhibitions in Victoria. He received a B.F.A. with Honours and Distinction from the University of Victoria in 2021, where he defended his MFA Thesis Exhibition in Spring, 2025.
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Education
2025 - Master of Fine Arts - Department of Visual Arts, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2021 - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Graduate with Honours and Distinction in Visual Arts from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Awards
2023 - SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters
2023 - University of Victoria Graduate Award
2023 - British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
2020 - Asper Scholarship in Film and Video Arts
2020 - Emily Apinis-Grundstein Scholarship
2020 - Heather Cragg Memorial Scholarship Renewal
2019 - Heather Cragg Memorial Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Identity Crisis - Studio B106L, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2025 - MFA Thesis Exhibition - Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2024 - Simple Pleasures - Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2024 - On Fridays We Have Meatloaf - Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2022 - Position Vacancy - The Crummy Gallery, Victoria, BC
2022 - Chicken Cordon Blue - The Vault Gallery, Victoria, BC
Group Exhibitions
2025 - Echoes In Between - XL Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
2023 - Convergence - Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2021 - The End - BFA Exhibition - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2021 - Dystopia//Utopia - Gastown Gallery, Online
2020 - I had lots of dreams / I had enother dream - The Void, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 - Connections: An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2017 - Out of the Grey - Camosun College Visual Arts Department, Victoria BC
Residencies
2025 - Rockslide Gallery Artist in Residence - Rockslide Studio & Gallery, Victoria, BC
Work Experience
2021 - present - Studio Assistant for Paul Walde - Victoria, BC
2018 - 2020 - SIM lab supervisor - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Volunteer Experience
2021 - BFA Exhibition Chair - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2021 - BFA Exhibition Website Committee Co-Chair - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020-21 - Mentorship coordinator - Visual Arts Student Association, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Teaching Experience
2024 - Foundation Photography & Video Art - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2015 - Art instructor/Artist in residence - Bakerview Centre for Learning, Abbotsford, BC
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