Patricia Villalobos Echeverría

Patricia Villalobos Echeverría is a Professor of Printmedia at Western Michigan University's Gwen Frostic School of Art. Patrica joined the Frostic School of Art in 2010.

She has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, installations and participatory projects that pivot around issues of migration, navigation, displacement and transformation. She received a Doctor of Arts from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, an MFA from West Virginia University and a BFA from Louisiana State University. 

Notable solo exhibitions include Sites in Flux, The 103 Exhibition Space, Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA, USA); TIERRASKINLAND, Netzorg Kerr Gallery (Kalamazoo, MI, USA); PUSH < > PULL, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design (Wrocław, Poland); Retrace, Galeria za Skzkłem (Wrocław, Poland); DESDOBLES, Malagana, (Managua, Nicaragua); Memeplex @ N14°06'17" W87°11'59", Centro de Artes Visuales Contemporáneo CAVC/MUA, (Tegucigalpa, Honduras); SWARM at The Americas Collection (Miami, FL). Her participatory projects include Retrace:MI (Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, MI), Transporta Managua (Managua, Nicaragua) 2017; tukituktuk, (Feijiacun, Beijing, China); trans_porta sivar (San Salvador, El Salvador). 

Notable group exhibitions include Poligráfica Puerto Rico: Bajo Presión / Under Pressure (San Juan, Puerto Rico); Fotógrafas Nicaragüenses, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (San José, Costa Rica); El Giro Gráfico, El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); Giro Gráfico. Rumores y clamores del Sur, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo, Uruguay); International Printmaking Alliance Exhibition, Beijing Taimiao Art Gallery (Beijing, China); After the Pedestal, The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, Ohio, USA); I Bienal del Sur. Pueblos en Resistencia, Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas, Venezuela); Post-Digital Printmaking. Redefinition of the concept of matrix, Neon Gallery (Wroclaw, Poland); In Art We Trust - Sol del Rio Arte Contemporáneo (Guatemala City, Guatemala); PrintEd: HERE, Contemporary Prints from the US, Turkey and Ireland, LSAD Gallery, Limerick School of Art and Design, (Limerick, Ireland); and the IX Havana Biennial (Havana, Cuba). 

She is the recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Artist Grant, the Oregon Arts Council Fellowship, PA Council for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Heights Residency Fellowship from the Heinz Endowment and has been an artist in residence at Ox-Bow, Artist Image Resource, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and the MacDowell Arts Colony.

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