Joel Patry was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1988. He studied at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia (BA, Major in Painting and Film History). His work revolves around aspects of human relationships to one another, their surroundings and self-reflection. The works create landscapes that may involve urban or natural attributes, yet strive to include a new perspective, which cannot always be perceived as a natural occurrence that would be in the real world.

Patry’s captivating abstract paintings utilize vibrant colours and bold textures to create speculative and imaginative landscapes. The work possesses a punchy playful energy, created through meticulous line work, masterful colour gradation, and layers of recognizable motifs. Patry blurs and distorts images of trucks, machines, people, and animals, experimenting with scale and proportion, to explore the balance between nature, memory, and relationships. According to the artist, “the work can be youthful, vital, intriguing while also displaying moments of chaos, confusion, and instability. This is me accepting how life is. That there is no way to have one side without the other.”

Patry has exhibited extensively in Vancouver and Calgary with his work residing in private collections across Canada and the United States. In 2010, he received the Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation Idea Art Award, an award given to an artist whose work connects visual arts to the health care sector, promoting healing and humanizing clinical spaces.

EDUCATION  

2011
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Bachelor of General Fine Arts focus in Painting and Sculpture

2007
Alberta College of Art and Design
Continuing education in Sculpture, modeling, armature, molds, casting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022

Solo Exhibition: Frame Of Mind

325 10 Avenue SW Gallery

Calgary Alberta

2015

Vertigo Theatre solo show - Revitalization

Calgary

2012
Masterpiece Contemporary Art Auction, Art Gallery Calgary
Calgary

​2012
Solo Show, Gerry Thomas Gallery
Calgary 

2011
Pop Up
Vancouver Pop Gallery show, Lower Hastings 

2011
Curatorial duties for No Pun Intended Jupiter Lounge
Vancouver 

2011
February Nomad Gallery 225 East Georgia.

2010
November VSA

2010
Fairmont Waterfront “operation Bee hive”
Vancouver General Hospital Idea Art Award
Juried competition of Submissions of work “abstract line 7,8”

2009
ECUAD student art show and sale
Submission of a body of work 

2006
Harrison Galleries, Calgary, Alberta
Performing and Visual Arts Winter Art Show