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 (pronounced "art-mark"). 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

 * Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009)
 * Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013)
 * Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video – RTMark) 2002
 * Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009
 * Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award (2001)

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