About — Patty Spyrakos

Patty Spyrakos is a mixed media sculptor and painter currently living and working in Reykjavik, Iceland. The form her work takes is driven largely by process in relation to experimentation with material, while content is often informed by environmental influences based on place of residency or exhibition location. Her body of work, while reinventing itself per show, also carries underlying themes tied to the evolution of the psyche, and an evaluation of the formation of all manner of bonds between self and society

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Group Exhibition, Unknown Benevolence, Hafnarborg Museum, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

2024 Group Exhibition/Curation, Erfið-Leikar, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland

2024 Curator, Art Market for Palestine, Á Milli, Reykjavik, Iceland

2023 Group Exhibition, Margt smátt/Little by Little, Harbinger Project Space, Reykjavik, Iceland

2023 Group Exhibition, Sequences XI Can’t See, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland

2023 Solo Exhibition, Desert Island, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland

2022 Solo Exhibition, Svart tungl dvínar, Harbinger Project Space, Reykjavik, Iceland

2022 Group Exhibition, Báran létt, Miðin Djúp, Gallery Gletta, Borgarfjördur Eystri, Iceland

2021 Three-Person Exhibition, Brúnn, bleikur, banani, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland

2021 Group Exhibition, Gallery Port x Húrra Reykjavík, Húrra, Reykjavik, Iceland

2021 Group Exhibition, Familia, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong

2021 Solo Exhibition, Nowhere, Padre Gallery, New York, NY

2020 Two-Person Exhibition, Silly Things, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland (with painter Baldur Helgason)

2020 Group Exhibition, I Saw You Post About It, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Group Exhibition, Jólagestir, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland

2019 Group Exhibition, Smalls to the Walls, Galerie F, Chicago, IL

2019 Group Exhibition, Pottery of Protest, Lincoln Square Pottery Studio, Chicago, IL

2018 Two-Person Exhibition, Skemmtilegs, Gallery Port, Reykjavik, Iceland (with painter Baldur Helgason)

2018 Group Exhibition, Couples Show, Galerie F, Chicago, IL

2018 Group Exhibition, Hot Fun in the Summertime, Line Dot Editions, Chicago, IL

2018 Group Exhibition, Pottery of Protest, Lincoln Square Pottery Studio, Chicago, IL

2018 Group Exhibition, Got it For Cheap, 0-0LA, traveling series of group shows at various galleries including: GIFC Artist picks series curated by Andre Alethier, The Costume House, Toronto, Canada; GIFC Artist picks series curated by Mike Swaney, Emma Pardos Store, Barcelona, Spain; GIFC Norway Tour hosted by Galleri Golsa

2017 Group Exhibition, TV Dreams, Miishkooki, Skokie, IL (collaboration with painter Baldur Helgason)

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

The Most Difficult Game: Exploring the immigrant experience at Gallery Port, Grapevine, August 2024

Erfið-Leikar on Tengivagninn, RUV, August 2024

Var í sjálfsmyndarkrísu þar til hún kynntist leirmunagerð, RUV, August 2023

Paintings for Der Liebeszinken, Apollon, online magazine of the Bavarian State Opera, October 2021

Rapid Fire Questions, leagueoto.com, January 2021

“Silly Things” Happened in Iceland with the Works of Patty Spyrakos and Baldur Helgason, Juxtapoz, August 2020

When in Floam: Patty Spyrakos sculpts relief paintings using a kid’s science kit, It’s Nice That, February 2020

Endurmat og kynlíf ólíkar persónur (Reassessment and Six Different Characters), Frettabladid Newspaper (Iceland), August 2020

Artist Interview, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, December 2019

Sculptures of Sausages and Cocoa Milk, RUV Radio One Iceland, August 2018