Komikka “The Yellow Cosmic Seed” Patton
Email: Komikkap@gmail.com
Instagram: @komikka_the_seed
Komikka Patton is a peripatetic 2D multimedia artist. Patton uses ink, paper, and collage to create works centrally based on the African Diasporan human condition; her large paper installations and collages touch futurism, transhumanism, mythology, and storytelling. Her work investigates stories; they disassemble and reassemble time, matter, space, and perspective, coupling fragments of thoughts, memories, and associations; with folklore, mysticism, and the metaphysical. Patton has featured works in the World Trade Center and Hyperallergic. She is the recipient of the Darryl Chappell Foundation Grant, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist, and the May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Scholarship. Patton obtained her BFA in Fine Arts from Columbus College of Art & Design and an MFA from New York University.
Educational Background:
MFA in Studio Art, New York University (NYU), New York, New York (May 2018)
NYU Study Abroad Course: Educational and Social Reform, Pretoria, South Africa (Summer of 2017)
BFA in Fine Art, Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), Columbus, Ohio (May 2016)
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
Residencies
Studio Kura, Itoshima, Fukuoka, Japan (2024)
Casa-Taller Malaquita, Bayamon, Puerto Rico, (2022)
Marcos Chin (Illustrator) Mentorship (2020-2021)
Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, New Jersey (2019)
Ne-Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2018)
Solo Exhibition History:
2024
Pearls Of Wisdom ii, Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan (forthcoming in April)
2023
This is America, curated by Fatima Lastee, 5 Point Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Imagined Futures, curated by Logan Cryer, Zindi Harley, Raul Romero, Teri Scott, and Morris Arboretum, The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Altruista, curated by Komikka Patton, Hibrido Santurce, San Juan, PR
(2021)
2020
GateKeepers, curated by Fatima Lastee, 5 Point Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
GateKeepers, curated by Amy Andrieux, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan (Digital)NYC, NY
2019
Divine Mother, curated by Anita Warren and Rob Fields, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NYC, NY (Solo)
2018
In The Center of The Storm, Ne’-Na Contemporary Art Space, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Selected Group Exhibition History:
2024
Black History Month, curated by Brittany Ora, Mint Museum Randolph, Charlotte, NC
Contemporary African Spirituality In Art, curated by Atim Annette Oton, South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
Contemporary African Spirituality In Art, curated by Atim Annette Oton, The Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
2023
In Loving Memory, curated by Carla Lopez, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC
This is America, curated by Fatima Lastee, 5 Point Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Imagined Futures, curated by Logan Cryer, Zindi Harley, Raul Romero, Teri Scott, and Morris Arboretum, The National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2022
Voices Of Freedom, curated by Michael Coppage, Kennedy Heights Arts Center Lindner Annex, Cincinnati, OH
2021
Can you see me now, curated by Alan Avery, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
Put Your Hands Where I Can See, curated by Cameron Granger, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
Behold, curated by Ivy Jones, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Mud at Our Feet, curated by Makeda Lewis, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
WTC 3, curated by Robert Marucci, World Trade Center, NYC, NY
Resurgence, curated by Clayton Calvet, World Trade Center Oculus, NYC, NY
2020
This Is America, curated by Fatima Laster, 5 Point Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
We Are Here, curated by Christy O’Connor, BSB Gallery, Trenton, NJ
2019
The Present is Trans, curated by Nairobi Marie, Langston Hughes House, Harlem, NY
Made Here, curated by Matt Barteluce and Russ Spitkovsky, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ
Temple of Sirus, curated by Malachi Lily, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Vox XV, curated by Michael Clemmons and Vashti DuBois, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Fruits Of Our Labor, curated by Amy Andrieux, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art House, Governor’s Island, NYC, NY
Ever Upward, curated by Sean Fuller and Monica Bill Hughes, Collar Works Art Space, Troy, NY
Publication History
The Mud At Our Feet at Swan Coach House, Atlanta, Burnaway, September 21, 2021 https://burnaway.org/daily/the-mud-at-our-feet/
Two Artist Evoke Celestial, Inner Realms At Swan Coach House Gallery, Arts ATL, September 13, 2021, https://www.artsatl.org/review-two-artists-evoke-celestial-inner-realms-at-swan-coach-house-gallery/
Aboard the mothership of artist Komikka “Martian” Patton, The Microscopic Giant, February 15, 2021, http://themicrogiant.com/aboard-the-mothership-of-artist-komikka-martian-patton/
Oye Drum Magazine Volume 2, July 16, 2020
“This is America' Addresses Our Troubled Time” Shepherd Express July 14, 2020, https://shepherdexpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/visual-art/this-is-america-addresses-our-troubled-time
Taji Mag Volume 22, March 7, 2020
Friend of The Artist Volume 9, FOA May 28, 2019
“Intellectual Rigor and Emotional Intensity in NYU MFA Thesis Show” Hyperallergic Media Inc. May 21, 2018. /hyperallergic.com/443547/2018-nyu-mfa-thesis-show-80wse-gallery/
Botticelli Magazine Issue 8, Issuu Inc. December 3, 2015.
Awards, Grants, and Honors
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist (2020)
Silent Partners Grant (2020)
Darryl Chappell Foundation Grant (2020)
Nominated/ Museum of Art and Design Fellowship (2018)
Martin Wong Scholarship (2017)
May and Samuel Rudin Foundation Scholarship (2017)
Winner of Lowell Tolstedt DRAWING PRIZE (2014)