Patricia Olynyk

Patricia Olynyk is an artist, writer and Director of the Graduate School of Art and Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Formerly appointed in Art & Design and the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan, her work appropriates medical imaging technologies and scientific tropes to address the cultural instability of interpretation. Olynyk co-directs NY LASERs, art and science salons for Leonardo/ISAST with Ellen K. Levy in New York to promote dialogue at the highest level among artists, scientists, scholars, and historians. Her works have been exhibited internationally at venues including the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., the Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.