Born
1969 Birmingham, Alabama
Education
1996 MFA California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
1991 BS Studio Art and Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Excavation, Friend Memorial Library, Brooklin, ME (forthcoming)
2023 Reach, Bay Road Gallery, Brooklin, ME
2022 The Magpie in the Mirror: Patty B. Driscoll, The University of Alabama Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL
2021 A Painter’s Lens: Photographs from the Studio of Patty B. Driscoll, AMWinc. Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2020 Pieces of Agatha, works on loan hanging in the Early Renaissance Gallery, Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, AL
2018 Persistence, Canary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2017 Considering Purple, Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, NH
Group Exhibitions
2024 Maine Artists Explore the Legacy of Jonathan Fisher, Bluehill Library, Blue Hill, ME
Voices Carry: Art by Alabama Women, Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham, AL
2023 Sensoria, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Make/Forward, Lowe Mill Arts, Huntsville, AL
2022 Tide Pools, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Continuity, 35th Anniversary Exhibition III, Space One Eleven Arts Center, Birmingham, AL
Labor of Love, ALWCA Folio, North Gallery of Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment, Huntsville, AL
2021 Skidmore College Alumni Exhibition, Virtual Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Intersections, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
Hand to Heart, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2020 A La Carte: A Visual Exploration of our Relationship with Food, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts,
Birmingham, AL (catalogue)
2019 Connections, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery and 21st Street Studios, Birmingham, AL
I Offer This, Ground Floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2018 Exhibition 21, Ground floor Contemporary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Echoes:A response to objects in WMA’ s permanent collection by the Alabama Women’s Caucus for Art,
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (catalogue)
We Are One, Stephen Smith Fine Art, Fairfield, AL
2017 Summer Salon, Canary Gallery, Birmingham, AL
30th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA (catalogue)
54th Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
2016 Skidmore College Alumni Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Intimate Spaces, Union Grove Gallery, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Women's Caucus for Art,
Huntsville, AL (catalogue)
2013 The Gallery for Antiques at the Gardens, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, AL
2005 Twenty First Street Studios, Birmingham, AL
2004 Art Walk Open Studios, Birmingham, AL
1996 MFA Thesis Show, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts, Oakland, CA
1995 New Works, Door 3 Gallery, Oakland,CA
Resist:Twelve Artists Exploring Resist and Resistance, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1994 Running Threads: Fiber Works From Six California Artists, Marilyn Wilson Gallery,
Birmingham, AL
1991 Rhythms and Color: An Installation, Case Gallery, Skidmore college, Saratoga Springs, NY
Awards
2025 Perreniel Residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA (forthcoming)
2024 Residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA
2018 Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
1991 Marguerita Mergentime Award for Textiles, Skidmore College
Publications
Frances MacDougall, “Artist in Residence”, Flower, Jan/Feb, 2025.
Kate Abney, “Get Pulled In With This Artist’s Limited Cabinet Hardware Collection”, Luxe, September 2023.
Dr. Tanya L. Jones, Ph. D., Magpie In the Mirror essay, exhibition catalogue. 2022.
Christiana Roussel, “Maker’s Mark: Agatha Studio”, Birmingham Home and Garden, Nov/Dec, 2022.
Joy Moyler, “A Rousing Entrance”, Veranda, Vol.36, Issue 4. July/Aug, 2022.
Donna Cornelius, “A Grand Entrance”, Over the Mountain Journal, December, 2021.
Alice Doyle, “Bespoke Door Hardware”, Flower , Sept/Oct 2021.
”Pieces From Saint Agatha”, The Magazine of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Spring 2020.
Brett Levine, essay “Patty B. Driscoll’s Persistent Assertions”, exhibition catalogue. 2018.
Art Galleries and Artists of the South (Canary Gallery Gallery feature) Vol.15. Issue 2 .28-29. 2018.
Brett Levine, “Patty B. Driscoll. Small Leaps of Paint”, B Metro Magazine, January 2017.
”The Magic of Realism” . Monadonock Ledger 8 Jun. 2017.
Lydia Longshore, “The Sweet Life”, Southern Accents, January/February 2000.
James R. Nelson, “Running Threads”, Birmingham News. January 23, 1994.
Visiting Artist Lectures/ Workshops
2024 French Matting Workshop, Artfix!, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
2020 Outside the Lines: Featuring Patty B. Driscoll, Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, Birmingham, AL
2020 Artbreak: Pieces of Agatha, Discussion with Hina Zaidi, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2019 Collector’s Circle Salon Series (Birmingham Museum of Art), Patty B. Driscoll Studio, Birmingham, AL
2019 All that Glitters is Gold Leaf, Gilding Workshop for Artplay, Alys Stephens Center, Birminghan, AL
2015 Artbreak: Painting Demonstration in the Manner of Small treasures, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
”The Magic of Realism” . Monadonock Ledger 8 Jun. 2017.Solo Exhibition