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Pat DeCaro

Pat DeCaro (born 1951) is an American artist based in Seattle, Washington. She has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1980,[1] where her works are held in the collections of the Northwest Museum of Art,[1] the Washington State Arts Commission,[2] the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture,[3] and the Pilchuck Glass School.[1] DeCaro’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in the United States and Europe.[1] She received the 2012 Twining Humber Award for lifetime achievement in the arts.[2]

Life

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DeCaro was born in Philadelphia, where she attended the Fleischer Memorial Art School and received recognition in the Gimbels City-wide Young Artists Exhibit at the age of sixteen.[2] She studied art at Temple University and Tyler School of Art, both in Philadelphia, and moved to Seattle to take a Masters in Fine Arts at the University of Washington.[2] DeCaro received a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy,[1] and spent two years there before returning to Seattle, where she lives and maintains a studio.

Career

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DeCaro showed her work regularly at the Francine Seders Gallery[2][4][5] in Seattle from 1990 until the gallery closed in 2013. She has had solo exhibits of her paintings and drawings in Dusseldorf,[6] Paris,[7] and Milan,[8] and has exhibited a co-created video in Istanbul.[9] She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony,[10] Ragdale,[8] Ateliers Höherwegs,[6] the Brandywine Workshop,[11] and held a Hauberg Fellowship[2] residency at Pilchuck Glass School. In the Pacific Northwest, she has also exhibited her work at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center[12][13] and the Northwest Museum of Art,[2] and had a solo exhibit at Gallery 4Culture in Seattle in 2016.[14][15]

Awards

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  • 2012 John and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle[1]
  • 2009 John Hauberg Fellowship, Artist Residency, Pilchuck Glass School[1]
  • 2005 Ateliers Höherwegs, Artist-in-residence, Dusseldorf, Germany[6]
  • 2002 Seattle Arts Commission, Purchase Award[3]
  • 2001 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund[16]
  • 1993 Brandywine Visiting Artist Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA[11]
  • 1987 Washington State Arts Commission, Painting Commission[2]
  • 1983-84 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Painting, Italy[1]
  • 1982/1994 MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH[10]
  • 1981 Ford Foundation Grant, University of Washington[1][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Pat De Caro". Artist Trust. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Artist Collection". ArtsWA. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  3. ^ a b "Conversation". seattlearts.emuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  4. ^ staff, Seattle Times (2012-09-14). "Fall Arts Guide: Visual-arts events". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  5. ^ 華婷婷, Vivian Hua (2008-05-12). "Francine Seders Gallery - Maysey Craddock, Pat DeCaro, Gail Grinnell". REDEFINE magazine. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  6. ^ a b c "Caro, Pat de – Ateliers Höherweg 271" (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  7. ^ "Pat De Caro / FOREIGN SHORES". Le Pavé d'Orsay (in French). 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  8. ^ a b "Pat DeCaro :: Art Department @ Bellevue College". Bellevue College. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  9. ^ "ID / Identities | Istanbul (Turkey)". ITSLIQUID. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  10. ^ a b "Pat DeCaro - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  11. ^ a b "Brandywine.Art". brandywine.art. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  12. ^ Seniuk, Jake (2020). Strait Art: An Anthology of Exhibitions from the Upper Left-Hand Corner. Marrowstone Press. ISBN 9780578573922.
  13. ^ "Jake Seniuk's Strait Art | School of Art + Art History + Design | University of Washington". art.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  14. ^ a b "Foreign Shores". 4Culture. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  15. ^ "Pat DeCaro: Foreign Shores". The Stranger. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
  16. ^ "Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. : Funding". demingfund.org. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
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