Patrik Andersson

Patrik Andersson holds a PhD in Art History from the University of British Columbia and teaches art and ideas at Emily Carr University of Art & Design in Vancouver. Recent published texts include “Niki de Saint-Phalle’s Killing Game: Participation, Happenings and Theatre” (Grand Palais, Paris / Guggenheim, Bilbao, 2015; “Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Age of Digital Reproduction” Lotta Antonsson: I am a Woman Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, 2016; “Inner and Outer Space. Rethinking Movement in Art” in Pontus Hulten and Moderna Museet: The Formative Years Stockholm: Moderna Museet & Koenig Books, 2017; and “Hitting the Nail on the Head: Rodney Graham’s Impressionist Game” It’s Not Me BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art: Newcastle, JPRingier, 2017. He has curated historical and contemporary art and design exhibitions since the late 1980s. Since 1997 he has operated Trapp Projects, an independent curatorial and publishing platform and in 2022 he curated Out of Control: The Concrete Art of Skateboarding at the Audain Art Museum, Whistler.