Patrick Lichty


Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at Winona State University.

Artwork

Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark. Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group The Yes Men, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.
He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre. In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being".
He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.
Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.

New Media Curation

Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern, and is published in the book, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, edited by Whitney Museum of American Art digital curator, Christiane Paul.
In December 2021, Lichty curated Through the Mesh: Media, Borders, and Firewalls at the NeMe Art Center in Limassol, Cyprus

Residencies, recognition, and awards

Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and the Smithsonian. He also works as a curator and critic.