Ebony G. Patterson, born in Kingston, Jamaica, is a painter and mixed media artist. Patterson has presented solo exhibitions and projects at several institutions in the United States including The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016); the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (2016); and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2016). Her large-scale solo show Dead Treez originated at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (2015) and traveled to Museum of Art and Design, New York (2015); Boston University Art Galleries (2016); and UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo, New York (2017). Patterson is a 2017 Artist in Residence at the Rauschenberg Foundation and a recipient of the 2015 Joan Mitchell Foundation Art Grant.


Patterson’s work was included in the 32nd São Paulo Bienal: Live Uncertainty (2016); the 12th Havana Biennial: Between the Idea and the Experience, Cuba (2015); Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans (2014), and the Jamaica Biennial 2014 at the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston. She is included in a number of public collections, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; Speed Art Museum, Lexington, KY; and the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston.


Patterson received a BFA from Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica and an MFA from the Sam Fox College of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She is an Associate Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky, Lexington and is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.