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PAT OLESZKO 190 Duane Street, New York NY 10013 212-925-0831 www.patoleszko.com palpatroam@yahoo.com SELECT PERFORMANCES, EVENTS 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 George, From the Bottom of My ‘Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI Da Mighty Conflagration, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY Would/Lands Reveal, Wallkill Rail Trail, Rosendale, NY The Pat and the Hats Fun’ Razor, Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, NY Wed-dingbat Party, The Chrch, Rosendale, NY Modren Wedding with Sperm Donor Party, Kingston Soap Box Derby, Kingston, NY Communist Party Party Hats Buffo Buffet, Bakrushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia The Creeps & Charismatics of Charlatan, West Virginia, Lewisburg, WV At the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA May Oui Fete Galante The Pat and the Hats Fun’ Razing Patsy Ross At the Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Pat Tuesday Redux Pi Day Smoke Gets in Your Ides Burning Mac Womb with a View, The Dirty Show, Russell Exhibition Hall, Detroit, MI Why Don’t We Do It In The Road/Art Attack! Vilnius, Lithuania Tower of Flower Power, Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC , NY Nothing Without A Porpoise, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl Darwin’s Nightmare, New Smyrna Beach, FL The Oracle at Bored & Failure, Lord & Taylor Windows, Boston, MA The Writhing See/Change, Procession, First Night, Boston, MA Goldman Sex, Indian Lake, NY Global Warning Bi Polar Bear Club Meltdown, Eagle Lake, NY Candle Opera, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Oldilocks and The Three Bares, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Uncle Spam & the Big Prick, Occupy Wall Street, New York, NY The Pat and the Hats, Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy Various Nefarious Fairy Trails, Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy See/Change, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic Walking Topiary, Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic Oil, Oil, Toil and Trouble, Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh, PA The Slime of the Recent Marinade, Festival of the Moving Image, YborCity, FL Cunning Stunts: Exquisite Corps, Edge Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Anti Gravity Art on a Roll Downhill, Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh, PA Stalking Walking Topiary, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh, PA Oil Spiel and BPer, Halloween Parade, NYC Pat the Nippler, Eagle Lake, Blue Mt Center, New York The Pats to Suckcess, Glass Art Society, Corning, New York Gulliblurr’s Travels: A Space Oddity, Duderstadt Center, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI See Sea Siege, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Gulliblurr in the Lovely Aisles, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI Tambe Be Tamara for Today, Jose Ignacio, Uruguay Yearning, Blurring and Touring Man, Haverford College, PA From the Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Brazil Mea Culpa Walk of Shame Bubbles Takes the Circus Muses Cruising Vera Cruz The MasPatche Armada Libertease Batters da Butch, PS 122 Benefit, New York, NY 1 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 Walter Ego and Color Coating, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA At the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH The Push-off Xmess Pats Patty’s Inferno Pat Tuesday Hotlips in a Cold Clime Tourists Troll, Literary House, Washington College, MD The Augur Well for the Future, The Mine, Creede, CO Innuendo and Out the Other, Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, FL Puff Patty & The Six Cigars, Ybor Festival of the Moving Image, Tampa, FL The Empire’s Nude Clothes, Nochterminal, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY A Breadth of Flesh Air, Prague Quadrennial, Czech Republic Breast St’oked, Brighton Beach, NY The Deportment of Corrections: Michigan Theater, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Portland, ME The Fool Emporium Agent 007, Castle, Boston, NY At the Blue Mountain Center, Indian Lake, NY Hamlet of Blue Mountain: Shakespeare in the Bark The Loon-y Bin Laden Race Riot She's Got Balls Burning Loon: Song for My Father Trials, Tricks, Travesties, The Pink Door, Seattle, WA Roe vs Wade, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY Ted-dy Bared, Tedfest, NYFA, New York, NY Question Mark, The Bank, PS 122, New York, NY Skooter Shooter, Halloween Parade, New York, NY DeFendi of DeThrone, American Academy in Rome, New York, NY Logging Lincoln: Planet of the Abes, Targel Arts Center, E Illinois U. Charleston, IL Seething Red: The Six Pats in Six Places, Republican Convention, NYC Bushwhacking, Pyramid, Howl Festival, New York, NY Airs to De Throne, Freemont Solstice Parade, Seattle, WA Clothes Crawls, Festival International De Teatro, Rio Preto, Brazil A Roar-Ybor-e-alis: A Night of Stars on Mars, Ybor City, Tampa, FL Pat's Eggcellent Add-Venture, UC Davis, Davis, CA Liberty Beats the Bush, Pyramid, NY The Rat That Stole the Tiber, Acquario, Rome, Italy N Leashed, the Dog of War, American Academy, Rome, Italy Julius Caesar Reading and Bleeding. American Academy, Rome, Italy Giordano Bruno Meets His Match, Campo de Fiori, Rome, Italy Whirled Peace, Peace March, Rome, Italy Pat-O-Philia: Thank Heaven for Leetle Goys, Halloween Parade, NYC kNOw War, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Rubble Without Pause, U of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY Roamin’ Holiday: A Few from A Broad, Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; Vanderbilt U, Nashville, TN Patsgiving Day Parade, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Cathouse for Dogs, Art for Animals, Metro Picture, NYC At The Macdowell Colony, Peterborough NH Some-Air Solstice The Lincoln Look-Alike Brigade The Oracle of Mt Patnadnock: Alass@Sea.Arg! School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH Roamin’ Holiday: A View from A Broad (Too) New Victory Theater, NYC: P.S. 122, NYC; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Circuits Circus 2000, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City Art Institute, MO Roamin’Holiday: A View from A Broad (One) Wesleyan College, Middletown, CT Roamin' Holiday in Situ, Rome, Italy 2 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 Che Credo, American Academy in Rome, Italy The Grand Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome, Italy The Pat and the Hats, American Academy in Rome, Italy Bearded Lady Circus, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL Day of the Dread, Florida State Univ. Gainesville, FL We Try Art-or Freak Emporium; and Dark and Stark, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO Humor's the Oddity, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Montclair State College, NJ Chateau Chapeau, Champions of the Arts Awards, NYFA, NYC Toast, PS 122, NYC Cunning Stunts, NSECA, Las Vegas, NE Nora's Art, Assordid Shorts and the Airs Apparent, Diverseworks, Houston, TX Julie the Forth 17 Year Swarmin' Cicada Signal Corps, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY De Light Fools Full Moon Show, Pilchuck, Stanwood, WA At the Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA The Pat and the Hat Smart Cow Syntax It Came From Inert Space: Pat Too At the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME Happy Face New Rage Marching Band Y'Art Sale The Great Swim Loon-are Modules Render/Remember, Clipper Mill Industrial Park, Baltimore, MD Stoff and Nonsense, Technorama, Winterthur, Switz. It Came From Inert Space, Lewisburg, WV Nora's Art: Pat Too, The Kitchen, NYC Libertease A Broad, Aspen Fourth of July Parade, CO Roadside Detractions, City Wavers and Volley Brawl; Artattack, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO She-Rrose, The Kitchen, NYC Jus Dis Once, Women’s March on Washington, Washington, DC Pats Herstory, Dixon Place, NYC Elke Summer, Canada Day Parade, Banff, Canada Cornelius Van Horn (Statuesque), Banff Avenue, Banff, Canada PATSQUATCH!, TransCanada Highway, Banff, Canada PATSY, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada Nora’s Art, The Theatre Project, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Git Yer Hands Off Her, in “Crossing Delancey”, Silver Humor's the Oddity, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY Air Today, Gone Tomorrow, Gar De Leon, Paris, France Humor's the Oddity, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; Montclair State College, NJ Bluebeard's Hassle: The Writhes of the Wives, Brattle Theater (ICA), Boston, MA Revel Without Claus, Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NYC Marie Anne Toilet, Artists & Writers Ball, Cuban Club, Tampa, FL Noah’s Art, Akadmie Graz, Graz, Austria Faking House (set and costume), P.S. 122, NYC2 Kumbayaya, Haystack, Deere Isle, ME Some-Air Equal- Knocks on the Rocks, Banff, Canada The Soiree of O, Documenta, Kassel, Germany Inflation: The Air Apparent, Central Park, NYC Where Fools Russian, P.S. 122, NYC The Soiree of O, P.S. 12, NYC; New Performance Festival, Tokyo, Japan Tool Jest Classic, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA The Policeman's Brawl, San Francisco Art Institute, CA The Only for Video Theater: Fairy Trails, Vienna Sommerfest, Austria Armor-get-on, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI Pats Pardi Brawl, Harborfront, Toronto, Canada A Farewell to Arms, Anti-Nuke Parade, NYC Jackson Pollack Adds a Whole’s Lot, World Festival of Theatre, Wroclaw, Poland 3 1980 1978 1977 1976 1975 1973 1972 1971 Tour de Farce, Theatro Centro, Naples, Italy All the World’s a Stooge, Whitney Museum Downtown, NYC Lake Placid Winner Olympeeks Photo Booth, Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY In the Fountain (Bleu)! Festival Mondial du Theater, Nancy, France ConstructaVista, International Design Conference, Aspen, CO Planting the Polish Cornfield (with Quonset of Ill Fortune), Artpark, Lewiston, NY Clothe Your Eyes (Revue), Kitchen, NYC Trek: Entreat (Pete and Repeat), Greenburg Nature Center, Scarsdale, NY The Glad Hands to Good Tidings, Central Park, NYC Pat's Picasso, Museum of Modern Art, NYC The Pats to Suckcess, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC Clothe Artpark: DE NATURE TAKES A BOUGH GRASP ROOTS VARIETY SHOW! (Tree Bien-Time Magazine) Artpark, Lewiston, NY Pat Oleszko-Sew What, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Taxidermiss, Museum of Modern Art, NYC Ball Arena High Jinx, Royal Academy, Copenhagen Liberty Tug-a Lugging, Bristol, RI Fat Tuesday, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC Patty Cake, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH New Yuck Women, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC ANNUAL PERFORMANCE EVENTS 2010-2013 Anti Gravity Art on a Roll Derby, Carnegie Mellon U, Pittsburgh, Pa 1986-1997 1966-1980 1970-1972 1971-1984, 98 P.S.122 Benefit Lottery Queen, NYC Ann Arbor Film Festival Queen Michigan Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, NYC Easter Parade, NYC FILM, VIDEO 2013 2012 2010 2009 2008 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1996 1993 1989 1988 1986 1985 1984 Darwin’s Nightmare, Oleszko, Cole The Half-Astronuts Dilemma: Darwin’s Nightmare Too, Oleszko, Cole Jest the Bear Facts, Oleszko, Leon Goldman Sex, Oleszko, Leon Pataccio’s DeClamorOn, Oleszko, Leon Stalking Walking Topiary, Oleszko, Martahardjono Pat the Rippler, Oleszko, Forman Gulliblurr’s Travels: A Space Oddity, Oleszko, Ostrander Odds at Sea Bahian Odyssey, Oleszko Airtopia, Oleszko, Robinson Patdemonium, Oleszko Tour de Farce, Oleszko, Berz Airs To De Throne, Oleszko, Simpson The Rat That Stole The River, Garces, Oleszko Giordano Bruno Meets His Match, Oleszko Kneepoleon, Oleszko, Robinson, Weigand Four for the Fourth, Oleszko, Dekart Roamin’ Holiday: A View from A Broad, Oleszko, Garcas PatsMaster(Piece), Oleszko compilation Cruise-wear, Semaphores, Oleszko, Robinson Little Red Writing, The Free Little Pig, Oleszko, Robinson Where Fools Russian in Better Midler's Mondo Beyondo, Oleszko, Schlamme Not a Petty Slight: The Wurst is Yet to Come, Oleszko, Robinson Tour de Fahrt, Oleszko, Robinson, Zeig Where Fools Russian, Oleszko, Carlomusto Herosheena, Oleszko, Carlomusto The Tool Jest, Oleszko, Robinson, Weigand 4 1982 1979 1979 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 The Clown Jewells, Oleszko, Robinson Kneel and Dimples, Oleszko, Robinson Footsi, Oleszko, Robinson Ashpattol, Oleszko, Robinson Pat-ad, Oleszko, Jones Nudes Reel Nudes; Taxidermis Oleszko,, Zeig Mac Flasher; The Padettes of POtown; Pattycake, Oleszko, Zeig Explorations with DesCartes, Oleszko, Zeig Patturncoat; Patatsouris; Rachel Tension, Oleszko, Zeig AWARDS, GRANTS 2013 2010 2009 2005,07,12 2004 2003 2000 1999 1998 1993 1991,01,09 1990 1988 1986 1987 1985 1984 1980 1978,85,87,93 1973 Peter Reed Foundation Grant Krauss Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon U. Pittsburgh, PA Witt Residency, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Eleanor and Henry Hitchcock Foundation Grant New York Council on the Arts Film Grant Artist in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Italy International Association of Art Critics Award: Best Emerging or Under-represented Artist Show (Second) The Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation Grant Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Italy American Theatre Wing Design Award Nominee: (Tony) New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship New York Dance and Performance Award for Sustained Achievement (Bessie) Mass Council on the Arts New Works PASS Studio Grant, NYC Jim Henson Foundation Grant New York State Council on the Arts Sponsored Projects Art Matters Inc. Award DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) (Berlin, Germany New York State Council on the Arts Grants (CAPS); Ann Arbor Film Festival Awards National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship New York State Council on the Arts Grants (CAPS) RESIDENCIES 2014 2013 2011 2010 2009 2008 2006,09,12 2003 2001,08,14 1995 1993,99 1992,95 1987,91 1987 Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Fl Fellow, Civitella Ranieri, Umbertide, Italy Krauss Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Pittsburgh, PA Witt Residency, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Brazil Blue Mountain Center, Eagle Lake, NY Resident Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY Macdowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA Resident Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, NH Resident Artist, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO Resident Artist, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Resident Artist, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada Resident Artist, Haystack School of Art, Deer Isle, MA 5 SELECT EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS 2014 2013 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1999 1998 1996 1995 1993 1991 1990 1984 1980 1979 1978 1974 1973 1972 1971 Performance Design in the Divided States of America, Bakrushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia, The Would/Lands, Rail Trail, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY Serious Laughs, Art, Politics, Humor, UPAC Performing Arts Center, Kingston, NY The Air-or of Her Ways, PS 122 at Henry Street Settlement, NYC The Many Phases of Eve, Artpark Revisited, U of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Angel Fool Cake, MacDowell Anniversary Picnic, Central Park, NYC Rampant Inflation, Nochterminal, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY The Fool Emporium, First Night, Plaza Castle, Boston, MA In Plein Air, River to River Festival, New York, NY reMARKable, The Bank, PS 122, New York, NY The Air Apparent (My Military Industrial Complex) Nelson Museum, UC Davis, CA The New-Nighted Air Forced Academy, First Night, Boston, MA Five Easy Pieces (Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor), DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA The Errant Space Museum, Wesleyan, Middletown, CT Roamin' Holiday: A View from a Broad, American Academy in Rome, Italy Air Today, Gone Tomorrow, Anchorage, NYC Air Today, Gone Tomorrow at: Puppet Festival, Puck Building, NYC Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, MO Glass Ball, Urbanglass, Brooklyn, NY The Errant Space Museum, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY Guise on Dolls: Signatures at an Exhibition, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Udder De Light, (Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object), Cleveland Contemporary, OH; (USA Today,) Textile Museum, Antwerp, Holland Censorama (Puttmodernism,) Artists Space, NYC Forefront: Pat Oleszko, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC The Clown Jewells, Lincoln Center, NYC aLoft Souls Museum of Art and Design, NYC The Tool Jest, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA Autre-coutre-ment: Lemme Out! University of Massachusetts, Amherst Coming Out of the Closet, The Kitchen, NYC Hand/Some/Show, P. S.1 Long Island City, NY Patty Cake (Birthday Show), Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC Pat Oleszko—Soft Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Patterson State College, Patterson, NJ Fat Tuesday (Sewn, Stitched and Stuffed), Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NY Patty Cake (Soft as Art), New York Cultural Center, NYC New Yuck Women, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH Patty Cake (Eat Art), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH The New Yuck Women (Act Three), Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC TEACHING, WORKSHOPS 2015 University of Michigam, Ann Arbor, MI Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 2014 SUNY New Paltz, NY 2013 Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 2010-13 Carnegie Mellon School of Art, Pittsburgh, PA 2009 Boston Museum School, Boston, MA University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 2008 Haverford College, Haverford, PA 2005 Boston Museum School, Boston, MA 6 2004 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997,8 1996 1995 1994 1993 1991 1989 1988 1987 1985 1983 1982 1982 1979 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Freemont Arts Council, Seattle, WA Boston Museum School, Boston, MA Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL University of California at Davis, CA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI University of N. Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA University of Akron, Akron, OH San Francisco Art Institute, CA Kansas City Art Institute, KA State University of New York, Purchase, NY Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD The Gesundheit Institute, Lewisburg, WV Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD Milton Avery Graduate School, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD California Institute of Art, Valencia, CO Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ Akademie Graz, Graz, Austria Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA East Islip Art Museum, NY Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Sheridan College of Crafts and Design, Toronto, Canada Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 7
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