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PATRICK LEE

Born in Butte, Montana, 1969. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education
1988-89 Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Solo Exhibitions
2016 PATRICK LEE, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, Walter Gropius Master Artist Fellowship, Exhibition, Seminar
2014 New Drawings, Western Project, Los Angeles, California
2013 Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, New York
2011 Deadly Friends: New Drawings, Western Project, Los Angeles, California
2010 Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, New York
2007 Deadly Friends, Western Project, Culver City, California
Group Exhibitions
2023
The Visual Elements: VALUE, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
2021
Drawn: From the Collection of Jack Shear, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, New York
All Together: A Group Exhibition from the collection of the Tom of Finland Foundation, Studio Cannaregio, Venice, Italy and The Community Centre, Paris, France
Home Fires Burning, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2020
Face to Face, Mirelle Mostler Ltd., New York, New York
2018
Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, New York
ROCK, Dedicated to Shannon Michael Cane, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group show, Carole Caroompas, Dion Johnson, Patrick Lee, and Wayne White, Western Project at Werkartz, Los Angeles, California
2017
Really?, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Ethics of Depiction;Landscape, Still Life, Human, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan
2016 US IS THEM: Art from the Pizzuti Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2015 US IS THEM, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
2014 11-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Western Project, Los Angeles, California
2013 Pussy Eater, Deadly Friends Skateboard Deck, Fundraising Edition, Printed Matter Inc., New York, New York
2011
Drawing for the New Century, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
B-B-B-BAD. An exhibition with attitudes, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, New York
2010
Cherry Pie, Western Project, Los Angeles, California
Faces; Dead and Alive, Compoundproject, Malibu, California
do I know you, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
Lush Life, Salon 94, New York, New York
MALE, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, England
2009
Drawings, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
In the Darkness, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Tattoo, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, New York
Send Me An Angel, Howard House, Seattle, Washington
Heads Up, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, California
The First Six Years, Western Project, Culver City, California
2008
Not Without Form: Recent Drawings and Works on Paper, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Marks on Paper – Juxtaposed, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, California
2007 Drawing Show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2006
Twice Drawn (Part II), Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, curated by Ian Berry, Jack Shear, Susan Rabinowitz Malloy
Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art at Domestic, Los Angeles, California, curated by Paul Morris and Marc Selwyn

Twice Drawn (Part I), Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, curated by Ian Berry and Jack Shear
Luxury Goods, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, New York
2005 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, curated by Ron Platt
2001  Patrick Lee: Drawings and Photographs Installation, Platinum Oasis, Hollywood, California
Museum Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Taylor Art Collection, Denver, Colorado
Bibliography
2018
Schulz, Christopher, “Pinups Presents Patrick Lee”, Pinups, pp. 1- 54
Hopf, Rinaldo and Schock, Axel, “Mein schwules Auge, Homage to Tom of Finland”, book, pp. 184-185
2017
Pierson, Jack (Curator), “Deadly Friends”, photographs, Musee, Issue No. 18
Rudin DeWoody, Beth (Curator), Wilding Cran Gallery, Really? , Exhibition Catalog, p. 38
Goody, Dick (Curator), Oakland University Art Gallery, Ethics of Depiction: Landscape, Still Life, Human, Exhibition Catalog, pp. 44-47
2016
“Los Angeles County Fire Dept. Station 130” photographs, CRUSHfanzine #11/Men at Work, pp. 159-166
“The Few, The Proud”, photograph, Animalz Issue 02, pp. 112-113
2015 US IS THEM, Pizzutti Collection, Exhibition Catalog, pp. 44-45
2012 LaBruce, Bruce, “Deadly Friends” Interview, Sang Bleu, #6
2011
Harnish, Tracy, “Patrick Lee: Deadly Friends” Huffington Post, July 27, 2011
Pagel, David, “Patrick Lee, “Deadly Friends at Western Project”, Los Angeles Times, June 30, 2011
Rodriguez, Frank, “ I Love Patrick Lee” Interview, Artillery, May/June 2011, pp. 42-44
Berry, Ian and Shear, Jack (Editors), Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, DelMonico Books/Prestel, p. 205
2010 Nitzberg, Ernest, ”Patrick Lee at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe”, Artillery, May/June 2010
2009
Minami, Yuki. (Editor), MUTE 2: The Face Stripped, cover image, pp. 32-39
“drawings: Patrick Lee”, Doingbird #fourteen, pp. 164-171
2008 Forestieri, Susanne. “Drawing Power: The magnificent collection on display at Donna Beam Gallery redefines what is possible to do with a pencil,” Las Vegas Weekly, September 4 -10, 2008, p. 60
2007
Hainley, Bruce, “Patrick Lee at Western Project,” Artforum, March 2007, p. 326
Sumner, Vonn, “Patrick Lee at Western Project,” Artillery, March/April 2007, pp. 34-35
2005
Millett, Ann, “Art on Paper 2004 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum,” Art on Paper, January/February 2005
Patterson, Tom, “A Versatile Medium”, Winston-Salem Journal: Visual Arts, p. F3
2004
Patterson, Tom, “The Key Word is Paper,” Winston-Salem Journal: Arts, pp. F1-F2
Schubert, Lawrence, “Old Wine in New Skins,” Pride 2004
2001 “LA My Way” photographs, Dutch Magazine #36, November/December 2001, pp. 136-137
Awards
Walter Gropius Master Artist Fellowship, 2016
Ace Hotel Artist in Residence, Palm Springs, California 2016
Peter S. Reed Foundation Achievement Award 2006
Nikon 2000 Grand Prize Winner, 2000
Tom of Finland Emerging Artist Contest, 1993