Patricia Brace

Patricia Brace’s (b. 1983, Cherryfield, ME) practice is located in rural Maine. Overall her work is concerned with the body as it relates to place and care and examines how we exist as part of the natural world amid a rapidly unfolding climate crisis.

Brace currently teaches at Maine College of Art and Design and formerly taught at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Brace attended the Arctic Circle residency in 2025 and the Studios at MASS MoCA, Alumni Residency at Maine College of Art and Design and Vermont Studio Center.

Selected exhibitions include PS122 Gallery, Gary Snyder Project Space and SOHO 20 in Manhattan and Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Smack Mellon and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Maine based exhibitions include 82 Parris Street, Center for Maine Contemporary Art and The Institute of Contemporary Art.

Brace is the recipient of the Kindling Fund, Professional Development Grant at MECA&D and Women Invigorating the Curriculum and Cultivating Diversity Committee Grant at University of Maine, Augusta.

Brace is the Co-founder of the Performance Art Initiative, Sine Gallery and GROUNDWORK retreat and has work in the permanent collection at the Portland Museum of Art and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in NYC.

Patricia’s artwork was featured in ‘Tout Le Monde’ on view August 9-31, 2025.

“”In Search of the Miraculous: Jumping Ship” is a site-specific performance and video work that explores ecological grief, embodied resistance, and the precarious pursuit of agency within a collapsing climate, staged in the rapidly warming waters of the Arctic Circle.”