Patricia Cronin

For over 30 years critically acclaimed artist Patricia Cronin has forged a unique multi-disciplinary conceptual and feminist art practice that breathes new life into historical art images and forms by infusing them with contemporary content including gender, sexuality, and equality. By subverting time-honored materials from intimate watercolor paintings, ready-made fabric installations up to monumental bronze and marble Classical sculptures, Cronin’s work addresses the intersection of human rights of women and LGBTQ+ people and representation. Cronin uses art history as a tool to reinterpret narratives, creating new ways to represent female subjectivity, insisting on female presence to female absence by disrupting mainstream hierarchies, histories, and chronologies through a feminist queer lens. Cronin is best known for her iconic Memorial To A Marriage, the world’s first Marriage Equality monument, a 3-ton Carrara marble double full figure mortuary sculpture installed in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY.

Cronin has had solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, as well as in Rome, Italy at Centrale Montemartini Museo and the American Academy in Rome Art Gallery, and Shrine For Girls, an Official Solo Collateral show at the 56 th  Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy that traveled to the FLAG Art Foundation, New York and the Lab Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Selected group exhibitions include those staged at the New Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, and the National Academy of Design in New York, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Perez Art Museum Miami, FL, Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow, Scotland, and Catharijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, and Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, both in The Netherlands. Cronin’s Memorial To A Marriage is permanently on view at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland and her Aphrodite Reimagined at the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL. She is recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Italy, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant and Anonymous Was A Woman Award, among many others awards. She is a Distinguished Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, CUNY.