Patricia Moss-Vreeland is an artist, author, poet, and thought leader on the relationship between art, memory, learning, and creativity; and the social impact of memory through science, history and language. Her work spans five decades and has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Moss-Vreeland has over two decades exploring the functioning of the human brain and the construction of memory, by collaborating with neuroscientists. Her work has been recognized since 1999 when hailed by the Baltimore Sun, “her work invites us to think differently about memory and the creative process.” She works in a range of media including paintings, drawings, prints, mixed media collages, poetry, videos, and artist books, that probe the unexplored territory where art, science, language, and history meet.
Moss-Vreeland’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Institute of Contemporary Art. Her art resides in many permanent collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, the Norton Museum, and Holocaust Museum Houston. She exhibited her work at the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia for two decades.
Moss-Vreeland, with her sculptor husband, Robert Moss-Vreeland, were selected through a national competition to design the Memorial Room for the Holocaust Museum Houston. In 1997, this permanent installation earned four international awards. Moss-Vreeland went on to receive the Art-in-Science XIV Millennial commission for Memory-Connections Matter, at the Esther Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia,
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