PUBLIC WORKS
2026 Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA | Commission
Washington DC Housing Commission, | Commission
2024 Olin Mural, Washington, PA | temporary
2022 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA Mural
2021 Mondays Brewery, Peters TWP, PA | Commission
2019 TRYP of Windham Pittsburgh/Lawrenceville | Commission
2018-2024 Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh, PA | Commission
2016 ARTPRIZE, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Mexican War Streets Community Garden, Pittsburgh, PA | Commission
2014-15 Kissimmee Sculpture Experience, Kissimmee, FL
2012 Mural Washington & Jefferson College, collaboration with students. Wall size 8’ x 76’, completed in three weeks.
ART FAIRS
2023 Red Dot Miami, Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe
Art Fair 14C, Jersey City, NJ
Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Art Market International Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary via Baker Howard Contemporary
2021 Art Market International Art Fair, Budapest, Hungary via Baker Howard Contemporary
2020 Spring Break Art Show, Tectonic Noise, New York, NY
2019 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 This ain’t no Disco, Groove, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 and… Olin Fine Arts Ctr, Washington, PA
2022 Art Venture Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
2020 Cohan & Grigsby Gallery, Color & Transition Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Box of Contemporary Space, Cosenza, Italy
2018 LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY
“#lineshapecolor”, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Winchester Thurston Academy, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 “Connotations and Manipulations” Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Florence School of Art, Florence, Italy
“Crosseyed and Painless: Exploring Myth in the Digital Color Field” Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Digitizing Myth: Archetypes and Identities, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
2014 Interactive Collaborative Window Drawing, Dobra Tea, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 chashama 1351, New York, NY
2011 “Where do I go from Here” Olin Fine Art Center, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
2010 Charles Harris Library Gallery, Wise, VA
2008 Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS
2007 Roanoke College, Salem, VA
Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
“Pattern Dance” Luther College, Decorah, IA
2005 Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN
Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2004 Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN
District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC
2003 Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Mack Avenue Gallery, Detroit, MI
Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
University of Texas, Tyler, TX
2002 Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI
Firelands College of Bowling Green State University, Huron, OH
Marian College, Indianapolis, IN
2001 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
2000 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
1997 Neo-Futurarium, Chicago, IL
Room 222 Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
2025 Multiples, 33 Contemporary, North Miami, FL
Color Shifts, Society Color Council, Rochester, NY
True Colors, White Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Industry of Art, curator Eric Shiner, Brooklyn, NY
Facing Abstraction, Icon Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2024 Gasp, Loft Artists Coalition, curator Ellen Hawley, Stamford, CT
In Writing, (online) Treat Gallery NYC, NY
Interplay; Geometric Abstraction, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Lake Worth, FL
Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Metamorphosis, White Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Shared Concerns, Verostko Ctr for the Arts, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA
2023 Beyond Painting, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, South Carolina
Color, ARC Gallery Chicago, IL
2021 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 108th Annual, curators Wendy Given & Ben Owen Pittsburgh, PA
Tabula Rosa, Baker Howard Contemporary, London, UK
All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
One in a Year, Painting Center, NYC
2020 Congruence, ilikeyourworkpodcast.com Curated by Bridgette Mayer
Go Figure – or don’t, Artsy.net/artspace99 Curated Terry Ward
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Featured Artist exhibition (Postponed)
2019 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 107th Annual, curated by Juana Williams,
Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
BoCs Art Museum, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio Consenza, Italy
Spectrum: Ditto, curated by Alistair Clarke & Sarah Tortorich of Voltz Clarke Gallery NYC
Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Summer Solstice, pop-up exhibition curated by Marisa Allen, New York, NY
2018 Union Hall (curated two-person show w/Amy Schissel) Pittsburgh, PA
Art Belt: New art from the Rustbelt, Curated by John Morris, Lakeland, OH
“Stripes”, BG Project Gallery, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 Contemporaneous, curated by Tara Fay, Pittsburgh, PA
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh “New Members show” Pittsburgh, PA
“Right Lines and Circles” Ormand Art Museum, (three-person) Ormand Beach FL
Ginormous Art of the CMU Collection, Charles V. Park Library-Baber Gallery
Central Michigan University. Mt. Pleasant MI
2016 Contemporary Color Fields, Todd Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Color” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Amazing Artists of Pittsburgh, Christine Frechard Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Landscape Problem, Mine Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Possible Realities 2, Karl Stirner Trail Proposals Exhib. Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2014 “Everything at Once” (Four-Person) Modern Formations, Pittsburgh, PA
“Interactivity” Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 “Performity” 8 – Hour Drawings, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 2012
“As it ever was” ATOM Space, Hartford CT
2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
2010 Invitational Alumni Show, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
2009 “Paintpresent” Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro, OR
Art on Campus, Central Michigan University Art Gallery Mt. Pleasant MI
2008 Serial Meditations NutureArt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
2007 Providence Art Windows, Providence, RI
Visual Grammar, (four-person) Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
8 – Hour Drawings, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
2006 Materiality, (two-person) Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA
Flat-File Artist, Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Patterns, (two-person) Maryland Center for the Arts, Annapolis, MD
Technicolor, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
Patterns & Pulse, Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, NY
2004 Six Windows, A group (four) exhibition sponsored by NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.,
Citigroup Lobby Window Gallery, Long Island City, NY
SixEmerging Regional Artists, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Art Barn at Kentlands Mansion, Gaithersburg, MD
2003 InterLimbic Gallery (two-person), Middleburg, VA
Simulations, Univ. of Edinboro (four-person), Edinboro, PA (catalog)
Wallpaper Pop, Art Space (two-person), Maynard, MA
Analog/Digital, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Western Michigan University (two-person), Kalamazoo, MI
Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Artscape: Notebook, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2002 Fall Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Juxtapositions, Schomburg Gallery (two-person), Santa Monica, CA
Winter Solstice, Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Craig Flinner Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Acme Art Company (two-person), Columbus, OH
White River Gallery (featured artist), Montague, MI
73rd Regional, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2000 Interior/Exterior, Catherine St. Gallery (three-person), Staten Island, NY
Sam Houston State University (three-person), Huntsville, TX
Combined Talents 2000, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL (catalog)
43rd Chautauqua National Exhibition, Chautauqua, NY (catalog)
1999 Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham, MI
1998 Works on Paper ‘98, San Jacincto College, Houston, TX
COLLECTIONS
Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
Denton, Cohen, Grigsby Pittsburgh, PA
Galerie Diderot, Orquevaux, France
BoCs Art Museum, Cosenza, Italy
Pittsburgh International Airport, Pittsburgh
Mexican War Streets Community Garden, Pittsburgh, PA
TRYP of Windham of Pittsburgh/Lawrenceville, PA
Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
Landfill Art Project, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Two Brother Beauty Supplies, Providence, RI
Marian College, Indianapolis, IN
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
Grand Crown Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Soften Associates, Grand Rapids, MI
Private Collections in the US, France, Italy Russia, and the Czech Republic
FEATURED ARTIST
2024 House Beautiful, October issue
Table Magazine
2023. Vanity Fair (UK)
2020 Associated Artist of Pittsburgh Featured Artist series
2015 Artists Opportunity Monthly, October issue
2005 New American Painting #57 (juror Jonathan P. Binstock)
2003 New Art International, Book Art Press, NY
2000 New American Paintings: The MFA Annual (juror Klaus Kertess)
1999 New American Paintings #23 (juror James Rondeau)
REVIEWS
2024 Carolina Alamilla, https://lebomag.com/at-home-with-color-inside-the-studio-of-patrick-schmidt/
2022 Patt Keith, https://www.altoonamirror.com/life/area-life/2022/07/a-joy-to-experience-sama-hosts-new-colorful-art-exhibit/
2021 Brad Hundt, https://www.observer-reporter.com/news/2021/oct/09/wj-professor-has-work-displayed-at-budapest-art-fair/
2020 Brad Hundt, https://www.observer-reporter.com/living/2020/aug/29/wj-instructor-uses-his-art-for-face-masks/
2016 Kurt Shaw “Color, imagination run wild of Center for the Arts” Cover photo Trib/LIVE March 30
Bill O’Driscoll “A review of the 2016 Solo & Collaborative Exhibits at the PCA” City Paper Pittsburgh April 6
Jenn Schuler “Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Hosts Opening Reception for Solo & Collaborative Exhibits” Jan. 1
2015 Kurt Shaw “Artists given wonderful display at Squirrel Hill’s Christine Frechard Gallery” Trib/LIVE AandE November 4
2012 Luis Fabregas “Newsmaker: Patrick Schmidt” Tribune-Review September 12
Susan Dunne “New Show at ATOM Space: ‘As It Ever Was’ Hartford Courant, May 3
2007 Kurt Shaw "The Hot Ticket" (photo) Tribune-Review Pittsburgh, April 5
2004 Gregory M. Knepp “New Generation” Pittsburgh City Paper” Pittsburgh, PA December, 16th
Mollie McClelland “Artists Responding to War” The New People” Pittsburgh, PA November 2004
2003. J. Meyers “Schmidt’s ‘Wallpaper Pop’ Creates Engaging Artistic Experience” Red & Black
B. Hundt “W & J Professor Adds Some Pop to the Art of Wallpaper” Washington Observer-Reporter
C. Nordbye “Two Artists Create an Anthology of Americana” Kalamazoo Gazette
S. Jenkins “Patrick Schmidt and Laurent LaGamba” Arts Media Boston
2002 V. VanAmeyden “KCC Davidson Gallery Hosts Michigan Painter” Battle Creek Shopper News
C. Stapley “Photographer and Painter Make KC Debuts” Kansas City Star 2001
A. Steinberg “Eyecandy: Pop Song” Charlottesville C-Ville Weekly
R. Latter “Op on Pop: Colorful Patterns Celebrate Popular Culture” Charlottesville Daily Progress
2000 A. Bannon “Exhibition of American Art Opens” The Chautauquan Daily
D. Bischoff “A Lasting Im`pression” The Newark Star-Ledger
M.Fressola “Island’s Smaller Galleries Make Clever Use of Space” Staten Island Advance
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2026 Graffiti/Tagging/Street Art, workshop New Castle, PA
2025 Icon Gallery, Zelienople, PA
2024 Olin Fine Art Center, Washington, PA
2023 Studio Faire, Nerac, France
2022 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA
2021 Art Market Budapest, online Baker Howard Contemporary
2020 Chateau Orquevaux Residency, Orquevaux, France
2019 BOCS Artist Residency, Cosenza, Italy
2017 West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2016 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (two-lectures/performances)
2015 Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI
Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2011 Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
2010 Gilliam Center for the Arts, UVA-Wise, VA
2007 Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, PA
2004 District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC
Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN 2003 University of Texas, Tyler, TX
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA
Olin Gallery, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
Philosophy Club, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
2002 Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, MI Marian College, Indianapolis, IN
Firelands College of Bowling Green State University, Huron, OH 2001 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1996 Public School #17, Petrozavodsk, Russia
RESIDENCIES
2027 Studio Faire Residency, Neřac, France
2024 Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2023 Studio Faire Residency, Nerac, France
2020 Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2019 Box of Contemporary Space, Cosenza, Italy Invitation by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
2017 Florence School of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy
2003 Glen Arbor Art Association, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI
2002 Marian College, Visiting Artist, Indianapolis, IN
2000 Soaring Gardens Retreat, Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Laceyville, PA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024 Honorable Mention, Gasp, Loft Artists Coalition, curator Ellen Hawley, Stamford, CT
2021 Kenneth Mason Sr. Summer Faculty Research Grant; What is your Favorite Color, or the Endless Power of Color
2020 Associated Artist of Pittsburgh, Artist of the month award February
The Denis Diderot (A.I.R.) Grant, Orquevaux, France
2018 Start with Art, 300 individual drawing gifted to newborns, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 1970 Faculty Development Fund, W&J College Research Florence Italy
2016 1970 Faculty Development Fund, W&J College
2014 Summer Deans Grant, Eye Tracking Workshop, W&J College
2007 Faculty Supplemental Travel Fund; Moorish patterns of Spain
2005 Kenneth Mason Sr. Summer Faculty Research Grant; Painting and Drawing as Installation: Creating an In-Between Space
2000 Bush Industries Award, Chautauqua Institute
Award of Excellence, Galesburg, IL
GALLERY AFFILIATION
White Room Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
EDUCATIONMFA (2000) and BFA (1995) in Painting, Central Michigan University
ACADEMIA
2000 – 2001 Adjunct Professor Central Michigan
2000 – 2002 Adjunct Professor Ferris State University
2000 – 2002 Adjunct Professor Western Michigan University
Washinton and Jefferson College (W&J)
2002 – 2008 W&J Assistant Professor (tenure)
2008 – 2015 W&J Associate Professor
2015 – current W&J Full Professor