Patricia Villalobos Echeverría has a hybrid practice of prints, photos, installations, and participatory projects that pivot around issues of migration, navigation, displacement, and transformation. She was born in 1965 in Memphis, Tennessee to Salvadoran parents and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. She received an M.F.A. from West Virginia University and a B.F.A. from Louisiana State University.
Her projects have been exhibited in North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. She is the recipient of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Artist Grant, the Oregon Arts Council Fellowship, PA Council for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Heights Residency Fellowship from the Heinz Endowment, and has been an artist in residence at Ox-Bow, Artist Image Resource, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University, and MacDowell.
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría
Studios
Heinz
Patricia Villalobos Echeverría worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…