Patricia Schnall Gutierrez

Patricia Schnall Gutierrez (born 1954, Buffalo, New York) is an American multidisciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, sculptural objects, performance, installation and film. She received a BFA cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a concentration in painting and figure drawing, moved to New York City in 1980 and continued her education at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. In 2007 she relocated to South Florida, where she lives and works.

Her work draws on a self-referential account of personal memories, situations and emotions. Using distinct choices of mediums, household objects and materials, she builds an autobiographical chronicle of the everyday that draws the viewer into an intimate dialogue and probes questions of gender and sexuality. Themes of identity, feminine roles, childrearing and aging run through the work as threads of her own experience: her drawings and paintings are intentionally calculated, her sculptures and installations are free-associative, and her performances and films record the stories of herself and the women in her community. Through a prism of intrigue, humor and absurdity she transforms the mundane into the extraordinary and offers a fresh perspective on the narratives that shape women's lives.

In 2011 Schnall Gutierrez co-founded RPM Projects with filmmaker Rhonda Mitrani and photographer Marina Font, a collaborative venture dedicated to multi-sensory female experiences that is best known for large-scale multimedia installations and short films and supports each artist independently and collaboratively.

She has exhibited at MOCA Miami, the Naples Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Museum of Florida Art, the Lowe Art Museum, the Margulies Collection, the Appleton Museum of Art, the Young At Art Museum, the Paterson Museum, the Burchfield Penney Art Center and MADA New Media, as well as in university exhibitions, art fairs and galleries in and outside the United States. In 2024 the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State University presented her largest museum solo exhibition to date. Her work was selected for the private Sotheby's auction at the Margulies Collection and has been included in other private and online auctions.

Her awards include the Award of Excellence at the Museum of Florida Art's Biennial Six exhibition, an Artist Access Grant from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, a finalist place for the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs Visual Arts Fellowship and several Art Slant Showcase awards. Her work has been featured in Interior Design Magazine, El Nuevo Herald, Art Districts Magazine, Blouin Artinfo and AAL Arte Al Límite, among many other publications.