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Education:
2014 MFA in Art—California Institute of the Arts
2011 BFA Sculpture—California State University Long Beach
Significant Roles / Field Experience
2025 Ottodokki (publication: Sming Sming Books)
2024 Nowhere Lab (www.nowherelab.xyz) — Founder/Director
2024 UCSC—Assistant Professor of Art, Techonology, and Play
2022-2023 UCSC—Visiting Assistant Professor in Performance Play and Design
FLAT Journal—Editorial Board
Playstructure Dreamcast—Cofounder/Director
2022 UCLA Game Lab—Artist in Residence
Auschwitz Study Foundation—Arts Director and Curatorial Advisor
2021-2022 Craft Contemporary Museum—CYC Teaching Artist in Residence
2021 CSU Bakersfield Todd Madigan Gallery—Visiting Artist in Residence
2019-2018 HouseGuest—Lead Curator and Exhibition Designer
2015 Return to FOREVERHOUSE—Immersive Escape Room Creator/Director
SOLO ART EVENTS:
2026
To Live a Loving Life (Module 3: Painter’s Box), Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
To Live a Loving Life (Module 2: I Am the Weather), PROJECT BLANK’s Salty Series, Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
2025
To Live a Loving Life (Module 1: Twilight Drover Family Theater), Comissioned by Folly Tree Arboretum, New York
*Production run of four sold-out showings
Tuning Our Storyorgans, SF Book Fair at Mission St. Projects, San Francisco, CA
2022
Azguynaenquainan! UCLA Game Lab, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Fool’s Window (Livestream digital performance), part of Automata Los Angeles Summer Residency, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Test Pleasures, PAM, Los Angeles, CA
2018
ENDBRINGER, Jace Space, Los Angeles, CA
Patrick Michael Ballard, DE: FORMAL (Internet exhibition space)
2015
Return to FOREVERHOUSE, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP/ENSEMBLE EVENTS:
2026
Kay Whale (forthcoming), Performance Art Museum, LA, CA (w/ Asher Hartman and the Gawdafful National Theater)
Rules are Not Neutral, Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
S.C.U.M. Alex Cruse, Patrick Michael Ballard, Toussaint St. Negritude, Subrosa Space, Santa Cruz, CA
2023
XYXYNYXYX, Indexical, Santa Cruz, CA (w/ Playstructure Dreamcast)
XYXYNYXYX, Oracle Egg, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Playstructure Dreamcast)
XYXYNYXYX, Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Playstructure Dreamcast)
2021
Live Birth!, Elysian Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Live to Tell, Chabad Center for Jewish Life, Newport Beach, CA
The Dope Elf, prop designer for Asher Hartman, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2019
Interworveled, Processing Community Day (performative lecture), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
The Dope Elf, prop designer for Asher Hartman, Yale Union, Portland, OR
2018
When Puppets Are Your Only Friends, Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Duets, LAND fundraiser, Los Angeles, CA
Dog Dream, NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
2017
PSYCHOPOMP, Labande Art Museum, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Corps, Driveway 327, Venice, CA
Enlarged Fern, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Les Urbaines Performance Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
Regional, International, Extra Terrestrial, Museum as Retail Space, Los Angeles, CA
Hotel Theory, REDCAT, CA
2014
Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, CA
AWARDS/HONORS/RESIDENCIES
2025
Folly Tree Arboretum Artist in Residence + Comissioned Site Specific Work
UCSC Artist Research Institute Start-Up Grant—Nowhere Lab Seed Funding
2024
UCSC Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant—Nowhere Lab Seed Funding
2023
Indexical—Artist in Residence with Playstructure Dreamcast
Oracle Egg—Pilot Artist in Residence
2022
UCLA Game Lab—Artist in Residence
Craft Contemporary Youth Culture Program—Visiting Artist Resident
Auschwitz Study Foundation—Resident Visiting Artist Director / Curator for Permanent Exhibit
2020
Foundation for Contemporary Art—Emergency Grant for Fool’s Window
Todd Madigan Gallery—Artist in Residence (CSU Bakersfield)
Automata Summer Residency—Artist in Residence
2019
PAM Performance Residency
2018
KULTURRÅDET Royal Arts Council of Norway Grant
2015
Pasadena Arts Alliance Grant for Return to FOREVERHOUSE at Machine Project
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Nominee Los Angeles
BIBILIOGRAPHY
PRINT:
Ottodokki
Artist Publication in collaboration with Bay Area Arts Publisher, Sming Sming Books
April 2025, pack of 24 cards (randomized from an archive of 160+ artist drawings) + zine, 2.5 x 3.5 inches;
zine: 32 pages, saddle-stitch : Edition of 200
LES URBAINES 1996 – 2016 Collection by Patrick de Rham, Art & Fiction Publications 2016 ISBN: 978-2-940570-18-8
New Highland Art Agents: Double Issue: Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival 2012
Irene Tsatsos, Armory Center for the Arts 2018 ISBN: 978- 1893900202
RADIO/PODCAST:
2022 Stand Up and Clown Podcast, Interviewed by Chad Damiani
https://podcasts.apple.com/sa/podcast/patrick-michael-ballard/id1646507210?i=1000591617854
2020 Material Girls Podcast, Interviewed by Kelly Wall and Linda Trask—Episode 6 (Spotify and iTunes)
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/material-girls-podcast-1019792/episodes/spelunking-with-a-world-builde-54941402
2016 PERFORM NOW, Interviewed by Carol Cheh and John Tain, KChung Radio—Episode 37
https://anotherrighteoustransfer.wordpress.com/kchung-radio-archives/
WEB:
BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN
https://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/arts-theater/go-beyond-the-ordinary-with-artist-for-csub-lecture/article_b30671c0-963b-11eb-aa04-5fdd00df3590.html
DE: FORMAL
https://www.deformal.com/interviews/2018/9/28/interview-with-patrick-michael-ballard
FABRIK
http://thisisfabrik.com/patrick-michael-ballard-return-to-foreverhouse/
KCET
https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/the-interactive-world-of-return-toforeverhousehttp://
www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/gamble-house-machine-project.html
LA Weekly
http://www.laweekly.com/publicspectacle/2014/09/24/machine-project-and-gamble-house-continue-thetrend-of-artists-taking-over-historic-homes
Art Forum: Scene & Herd
http://artforum.com/diary/id=30226