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Patrick Earl Hammie
Patrick Earl Hammie is an interdisciplinary visual artist and educator who specializes in portraiture, storytelling, and the body in visual culture. Since 2007, Hammie has examined personal and shared Black experiences, systems of knowledge production, and the politics of representation. He engages these topics through representation, abstraction, pastiche, and narrative, using techniques informed by critical theory and postcolonialism. His projects draw frequently from Romantic and Expressionist traditions, Black speculative fiction, and music to explore inherited narratives and arts that shape the intricacies of identity, community, emotion, and family.
Hammie’s works are in the collections of the David C. Driskell Center, John Michael Kohler Art Center, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Kinsey Institute Collections, Kohler Company Collection, Lawrence University, Purdue University, University of Illinois, and William Benton Museum of Art. He has exhibited in Germany, India, South Africa, and the United States, at venues that include California African American Museum, The Drawing Center, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Madlozi Art Gallery, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Bo Bartlett Center, and the Zhou B. Art Center. He is the inaugural recipient of the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship from Wellesley College, and was an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Art Center. He has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Midwestern Voices and Visions, Puffin Foundation, Tanne Foundation, the states of Illinois and Connecticut, and other private foundations.
Hammie was born in New Haven, CT, studied at Coker University (BA, 2004), received an MFA from the University of Connecticut (2008). He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of Studio Art in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
