Meet the Artists

Kamau Amu Patton is a media artist living and working in Brooklyn and Chicago. Patton engages archives, documents, networks and sites. His projects are immersive constructs and take form as expanded field, inter-media structures. His works are temporary architectures made solid through attention, always becoming, continuing and undergoing transformation.

In 2020 Patton was Archive Artist in Residence at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. Utilizing recordings from the Sun Ra / El Saturn Collection Patton created The Past And Other Dreams, a double cassette produced by the artist in collaboration with the Creative Audio Archive at ESS. A box set LP of Patton’s arrangements of Terry Adkins Lone Wolf Recital Corps Recitals, Second Mind and Alto Age was released in partnership with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in 2021. In 2022, Patton performed new sound compositions at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn and Basilica Arts in Hudson New York. Patton’s solo photo exhibition Tombs opened at SJSU galleries in October of 2022. In 2023, Patton presented a new inter- media performance, Dromeostasis, as part of the Signals exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 2024 Patton performed new sound compositions as part of the exhibition, Flight Into Egypt, Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876- Now, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.