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Patrick McGrath Muñiz is an artist from Puerto Rico, now living in Texas. Patrick’s current artwork is comprised primarily of drawings, ‘retablo’ paintings and tarot cards, inspired after one of the few personal items he managed to recover before hurricane Maria hit his childhood home and studio in the island in 2017. The artist incorporates and combines figures and icons from Spanish Colonial Iconography, American Pop Culture and Tarot layered with personal myths and memories. His work reflects on the colonial roots of our current consumer culture.
Some of his previous solo shows have been at Museo de las Americas, San Juan, PR, Museo Convento Las Capuchinas in Antigua, Guatemala, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, Arizona, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, The Jung Center, Houston, TX, Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, PA and at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, MO. His work has also been shown at the Bronx Museum, NY, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, NM, at the Station Museum, Holocaust Museum, both in Houston, TX , Centro de Artes in San Antonio, TX and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.
Patrick obtained a BFA (Magna Cum Laude) in Fine Arts from the School of Fine Arts of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2003 and an MFA (Suma Cum Laude) from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006. His paintings can be found at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Albuquerque Museum, The Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Museum in Santa Fe, NM and the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, in Mesa, Arizona His artwork is in several private collections in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Patrick is also the author of Tarot Neocolonial de las Americas, published by US Games. He now lives in New Territory, Texas with his wife Blanca and son, Francis.
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