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Daisy Patton Untitled (L.B. 1937 Westchester Photo Finishing Co. Dec. 7 1936), 2018, 2020 Print on Paper Signed recto, blank verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Daisy Patton is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born in Los Angeles, CA to a mother from the South and an Iranian father she never met. She spent her childhood between California and Oklahoma, deeply affected by these conflicting cultural ways of being. Influenced by collective and political history, as well as memory and the fallibility of the body, Patton's work explores the meaning and social conventions of families, relationship, storytelling and story-carrying, and also connection. One prominent series, Forgetting is so long, has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Jealous Curator, The Denver Post, The Chautauquan Daily, and more. Education Currently residing in western Massachusetts, Patton has a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Oklahoma with minors in History and Art History and an Honors degree. She earned her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University, a multi-disciplinary program. Patton has completed artist residencies at Minerva Projects, Anderson Ranch, the Studios at MASS MoCA, RedLine Denver, and Eastside International in Los Angeles. She has been awarded the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant, as well as the Assets for Artists Massachusetts Matched Savings grant and the Montage Travel Award from SMFA for research in Dresden, Germany. She has exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, including her first museum solo at the CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado. Minerva Projects Press will publish a collection of essays and poetry on Patton's practice in spring 2021. K Contemporary represents Patton in Denver, CO, and J. Rinehart represents her in Seattle, WA. MFA Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; BFA University of Oklahomahonors and awards 2020 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. Grant Award 2020 Massachusetts Matched Savings Grant cohort, Assets for Artists of MASS MoCA 2019 Faith and Freedom Award from the Colorado Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, May 2019 Nominated for the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF), 2017 Cycle Montague Travel Grant Award at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, December 2010 Exhibitions "Burnt Hair Spun Gold" at K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee St., Denver, CO, Sept.-Oct. 2020 "Put Me Back the Way They Found Me," curated by Simon Zalkind at Fulginiti Pavilion, Anschutz Medical Campus, 13080 E. 19th Ave, Aurora, CO, Mar-June 2020 Project Space at K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee St., Denver, CO, Nov. 2019 "Lineages in Bloom" at the Bellowe Family Gallery, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, June-July 2019 "Would you be lonely without me?" at the Texas Capitol Exhibit Space, 1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX, Apr. 2019 "Forgetting is so long" at The Art Base, 99 Midland Spur, Basalt, CO Mar.-Apr. 2019 "A Rewilded Arcadia" at K Contemporary, 1412 Wazee St., Denver, CO, Oct. 2018 "This Is Not Goodbye," curated by Sandra Firmin, CU Boulder Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, 318 UCB, Boulder, CO, Jul.-Nov. 2018 "Would you be lonely without me?," Art Gym, 1460 Leyden St., Denver, CO, July-Aug. 2018 "Throw My Ashes Into the Sea," solo at Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO, Jan.-Mar. 2017 "Forgetting is so long," at Front Range Community College, Boulder County Campus, Longmont, CO, Jan.-Mar. 2017 "Forgetting is so long" at Michael Warren Contemporary Gallery, 760 Santa Fe Dr, Denver CO, Dec. 2014 About the postcard artworks "What rituals are useful to locating someone who's gone. Our story has no language. My loss always in communication with your loss." -Ella Longpre, How to Keep You Alive Who do we choose to remember, and how? These ideas are fraught terrain that cross family relationships, identities, and collective memorialization. For some, living memory supports an elongation of our lives-we onl