Kelda Van Patten is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, photography, drawing, ceramics, and animation. Based in Portland, Oregon, she was a public art educator for more than 20 years. Her current practice embraces materiality, process, vulnerability, and the traces of making. Through play, improvisation, mess, excess, and mistakes, Van Patten explores uncertainty and not-knowing as generative conditions for discovery, change, and transformation.

Kelda Van Patten received her MFA in Craft and Material Studies from Oregon College of Art and Craft/Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2020. She holds a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MAT from Lewis & Clark College. She has exhibited her work at Well Well Projects in Portland, Oregon, Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, The Vestibule in Seattle, Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, and Koslov Larsen in Houston. She has received multiple grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and has attended residencies at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California; the Nes Artist Residency in Iceland; Jentel in Sheridan, Wyoming; and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon. Her work has been featured in Create! Magazine, BERM, Talking Pictures, and Fraction Magazine, and is held in the collection of the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation as well as various private collections.

Her work is available at Klompching Gallery, Koslov Larsen, Mantel PDX, or feel free to contact the artist directly.