Ada M. Patterson b. 1994, Bridgetown, Barbados; lives in London, UK and Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ada M. Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London, and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defense, and survival.

Patterson received a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London in 2017 and an MA from Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam in 2020. Her work has been included in various exhibitions internationally; recent exhibitions include Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now at Tate Britain, London, UK; and The Whole World is Turning at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Patterson was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow, and an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam in 2024.