Patricia Olynyk

Patricia Olynyk is a multimedia artist, scholar and educator. Patricia Olynyk’s work investigates science and technology-related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of the world. Olynyk is the Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art at Washington University in St. Louis, Co-chair of Leonardo/ISAST’s LASER Talks program in New York, and Medicine + Media Arts Fellow at UCLA’s Art | Sci Center. Her work has been exhibited internationally at Palazzo Michiel, Venice; the Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan; the Los Angeles International Biennial; The Brooklyn Museum; and the National Academy of Sciences in D.C. Olynyk’s writing has been featured in Public Journal, the Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Leonardo Journal, and Bio/Matter/Techno Synthetics (Actar Press). She lives and works in the USA.