Ada Maricia Patterson

Ada Maricia Patterson is an artist, writer and educator based between Barbados, London and Amsterdam. She works with drawing, masquerade, music, performance, poetry, textiles and video, considering the connections between storytelling, transformation, crisis, grief, rage, disappearance, discretion, self-defence and survival.

Her work has been included in various exhibitions internationally; recent exhibitions include Prospect Triennial, New Orleans, USA; Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now at Tate Britain, London, UK; and The Whole World is Turning at TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Patterson was the 2020 NLS Kingston Curatorial and Art Writing Fellow and she is an alumna resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. 

Ada@DAI:

21 & 22 April 2026 ~ Oosterhout, the Netherlands ~ Kitchen Responding.