who
b. Toronto, ON, Canada
Andrew Patterson is a Canadian visual artist, designer, and educator exploring themes of ambiguity and plurality through the lens of multi-racial identity and cultural syncretism. His practice synthesizes his formal art training in painting and drawing with his experience as a professional graphic designer to erase boundaries separating different modes of making.
Andrew has exhibited and curated both in the United States and Canada, including many solo, split, and group exhibitions in New York City and Toronto. He has won back to back awards for public arts proposals from NXT City in Toronto (2016, 2017), and has been recognized for his design work on DesignRush in ‘22 and ‘23. The bridge between his practice and his design work blossomed with the co-founding of his creative agency Wysp Creative, which has hosted pop-ups, exhibitions, and photo shoots, as well as providing studio space and full-service print production for local artists. He became the inaugural artist-in-residence at Collective Arts Toronto in 2022.
Starting in 2015, Andrew began working with Toronto non-profit Jamii Esplanade, a lauded public arts organization creating local cultural programming across the visual arts, music, performance, and craft. They have collaborated on several community murals, traveling theatre hubs, and international community exchange projects, as well as countless round tables, exhibits, and workshops. This growing love for community work and paying it forward as a part of his evolving practice would eventually lead him into formal academic teaching.
Andrew teaches Illustration Concepts and Disciplines as well as Design Principles at Sheridan College’s celebrated Illustration BAA program. He holds a BAA in both Animation and Illustration respectively from Sheridan College (Toronto), and completed his MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts (NYC).
Andrew lives and works between Toronto and NYC.
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Education
2026, MFA Fine Arts – School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA
2009, BAA Honours Illustration – Sheridan College, Oakville ON, Canada
2007, BAA Honours Animation – Sheridan College, Oakville ON, Canada
Solo/Two Person exhibitions
2022
Spin Cycle (split w/ Dave Murray & Lucas DeClavasio) | She Said Gallery, Toronto, ON
Mixed Blood Manifesto (solo) | Northern Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2019
Angles (solo) | Our Gallery, Toronto, ON
2014
Analog (split w/ Andy Kittmer) | #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012
Fracture: The Art of Andrew Patterson (solo) | #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON
Group exhibitions
2026
Angels Inside | The Sue Tear, New York City, NY
HEAT | Hala, Brooklyn, NY
Compounding Interest | SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York City, NY
2024
A New York Game of Mind | The Local Gallery, New York City, NY
In the Paint | The Local Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023
In-Season | The Local Gallery, New York City, NY
#DoubleU | The Local Gallery, Toronto, ON
2020
Out of Order | Crybaby, Toronto, ON
2018
May – Coalition | DCP Studios, Toronto, ON
January – WILD | Yoga Yoga, Toronto, ON
2017
September – Home (curator) | Steamwhistle Roundhouse, Toronto, ON
April – 5 | #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015
September – Surface | 99 Sudbury, Toronto, ON
April – Nesting | Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
April – Aries 27° | 416 Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013
December – The Biggest Little Art Show | #Hashtag Gallery, Toronto, ON
2012
February – Intimate Gestures | Studio 507, Toronto, ON
2010
August – The Skateboard Art Show | Loose Cannon Gallery, Hamilton, ON
Publications
2026
Atopia, (SVA MFA Fine Arts zine, 1st Edition)
2022
Mixed Blood Manifesto, Andrew Patterson (self-published zine, 1st Edition)
2009
Applied Arts, Spring 2009
Residencies
2022
Collective Arts Artist-in-residence, Toronto, ON
Public Art Projects
2026 On the Move | with StART Toronto & Astrosankofa Arts Initiatives, Toronto, ON
2019 Wind Stories (Wolfe Island) | with Jamii Esplanade, Toronto, ON
2018 At Heart (film) | with Jamii Esplanade, Toronto, ON
2017 Feetprint | with Jamii Esplanade, Toronto, ON
2016 Nuit Blanche, Patchwork Village | with Jamii Esplanade, Toronto, ON
2008 Style in Progress 2008 | Style In Progress
Teaching
Professor of BAA Illustration – Sheridan College, Oakville ON, Canada