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Ebony Patterson
Ebony Patterson (born in 1981, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican visual artist and educator. Ebony is well known for her creative bright-colored and radiant drawings, videos, instillations, tapestries, etc. One of her most famous projects was the "Gangstas For life" series created in 2008.

Early Life and Education
Ebony Patterson went to Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica and studied painting. She graduated in 2004. She then attended Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing.

Work
Ebony Patterson works around several different type of media such as tapestry, videos, drawings, sculptures, photography, and installations. She has presented solo exhibitions and projects at several institutions in the United States. In 2016 she presented a solo exhibition in The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

She was invited to participate in the first edition of Open Spaces in Kansas city Missouri, in 2018 where she unburied the history of a disused pool in Swope Park dedicated to Harry M. There she ran a Kickstarter campaign to remember or to "bring life" to the site. She decided to clean out the area, remove the fence, and add her artwork.

Her most famous work is her series called Gangstas for life that she started in 2008. This series shows Patterson’s attention on male identities. She started exploring the appearance of skin bleaching among Jamaican males. She used Jamaica’s “most wanted” gang members. She created portrait images of Jamaican males and glamorized them by using glitter, patterned wallpapers, fabrics, and brightly colored toy guns.

Public Art

 * Patterson received a MFA degree in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts (2006)
 * Peterson was invited to participate in the first edition of Open Spaces in Kansas city Missouri (2018)
 * One of her most known work was a series called “Gangstas for Life” that she started in 2008
 * Ebony presented a solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, New York (2016)
 * Ebony Presented solo exhibition at Seattle Art Museum (2016)
 * Ebony Presented solo exhibition at Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (2020)
 * Ebony Patterson Presented a solo exhibition at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2008)
 * One of her most known work is her series called “Gangstas for life” (2008)
 * Spoke to visitors at Swope Park. She ran a kickstarter campaign to "reclaim and revitalize" the site (2018)