Patricia Cronin

Patricia Cronin (b. 1963, Beverly, MA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Internationally recognized for her pioneering work at the intersection of art history, feminist theory, and social justice, her practice often invokes the language of apparitions, memorials, and shrines. Her landmark public marble sculpture, Memorial To A Marriage (2002), the world’s first monument to Marriage Equality, reflects a long-standing commitment to public commemoration and social justice. During her 2006-07 Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, she reconstructed the lost oeuvre of 19th-century American sculptor Harriet Hosmer, evoking a nearly-erased legacy through a feminist lens. In 2015, Cronin debuted Shrine for Girls, an Official Solo Collateral Event at the 56th Venice Biennale, an acclaimed installation reflecting on global plight of exploited women and girls. It then traveled to The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2016); The LAB Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (2018); and the Catharijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2021). Other solo exhibitions were presented at the Brooklyn Museum, Tampa Museum of Art, Newcomb Art Museum, and Centrale Montemartini Museo (Musei Capitolini) and the American Academy in Rome, both in Rome, Italy, among others. Her work is held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, both Washington, D.C.; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland; Perez Art Museum Miami; and Tampa Museum of Art. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award. Cronin is Distinguished Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, CUNY.