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Pat Oleszko makes a spectacle of herself—and doesn't mind if you laugh. Known
as the Ms Tricks of Dis Guise, she has a large body—of work—which includes
many Unnatural Acts. Utilizing elaborate costumes and props, she has created
lithe performantzes, films, installations that a-dress trees, knees, breasts,
butts, elephants and fingers. There have been notorious spatial events with the
cast-off thousands and uttered shenanigans. She has worked from the popular
artforms of the street, party, parade and burlesque house, to the Museum of
Modern Art, from Sesame Street Magazine to Ms, Playboy, and Artforum. A much
decorated artist, literally and figuratively, she has been amply rewarded for
her diverse efforts pumping irony and disparately bringing home the beacon.
The truth squirts.
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Awards & Grants
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2003 | American Academy in Rome Resident, Italy |
2001 | New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship |
2000 | International Association of Art Critics Award: Best Emerging or Under-represented Artist Show (Second Place) |
1999 | Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation |
1998 | Rome Prize American Academy in Rome, Italy |
1993 | National Endowments for the Arts Fellowship American Theatre Wing Design Award Nominee: Scenic Design and Noteworthy Unusual Effects, New York City |
1991 | New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship |
1990 | Guggenheim Fellowship New York Dance and Performance Award for Sustained Achievement (Bessie) |
1988 | Mass Council on the Arts New Works |
1986 | PASS Studio Grant |
1987 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Jim Hensen Foundation New York State Council on the Arts Sponsored Projects |
1985 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Art Matters Inc. Award |
1984 | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Berlin, Germany |
1980 | New York State Council on the Arts Grants (CAPS) Ann Arbor Film Festival Awards |
1978 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
1973 | New York State Council on the Arts Grants (CAPS) |
Performances & Events
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2002 | Pat-O-Philia: Thank Heaven for Leetle Goys Halloween Parade, New York City |
2001 | kNOw War Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Patsgiving Day Parade Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY |
2000 | Rubble Without Pause U of N. Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Some-Air Solstice The Go Forth of July Pay-Raid Mt Patnadnock The Patsgiving Day Parade Yaddo, Saratoga Springs NY |
1999 | The Sprung Concert The Grand Prix de Rome Roamin' Streetwalking American Academy in Rome, Italy |
1998 | Che Credo American Academy in Rome, Italy Bearded Lady Circus Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL We Try Art-or Freak Emporium Dark and Stark Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO |
1997 | Cunning Stunts NSECA, Las Vegas, NV |
1996 | Julie the Forth 17 Year Cicada Swarmin' Signal Corps Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY |
1995 | Happy Face New Rage Marching Bland The Great Swim Skowhegan, ME It Came From Inert Space: Pat Too Smart Cow Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA |
1994 | It Came From Inert Space Lewisburg, WV |
1993 | Nora's Art: Pat Too Gunston Arts Center, Arlington, VA |
1992 | Jus Dis Once Women's March on Washington, Washington, DC |
1991 | Pasquatch! TransCanada Highway, Banff, Canada |
1990 | Nora's Art Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD |
1989 | Humor's the Oddity Hallwalls Buffalo, NY Bluebeard's Hassle Brattle Theater (ICA), Boston, MA |
1988 | Revel Without a Claus Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, NYC Noah's Art Akademie Graz, Graz, Austria |
1987 | Inflation: The Air Apparent Central Park, NYC Kumbayaya Haystack, Deere Isle, ME |
1985 | Where Fools Russian P.S. 122, NYC |
1984 | The Soiree of O P.S. 122, NYC Performance Festival, Tokyo, Japan Tool Jest Classic Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA |
1983 | The Only-for-Video Theater Fairy Trails Vienna Sommerfest, Austria |
1982 | Armor-get-on Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI A Farewell to Arms Anti-Nuke Parade, NYC |
1981 | Jackson Pollack Adds a Whole Lot World Festival of Theater, Wroclaw, Poland Tour De Farce Teatro Centro, Naples, Italy |
1980 | All the World's a Stooge Whitney Museum Downtown, NYC Lake Placid Winner Olympeeks Winter Olympics, Lake Placid, NY In the Fountain (Bleu!) Festival Mondial du Theater, Nancy, France |
1978 | Constructa Vista International Design Conference, Aspen, CO (Planting) the Polish Cornfield Artpark, Lewiston, NY Clothe Your Eyes (Revue) Kitchen, NYC |
1977 | Trek Entreat Greenburg Nature Center, Scarsdale, NY The Glad Hands to Good Tidings Central Park, NYC Pat's Picasso Museum of Modern Art, NYC The Pats to Suckcess Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC |
1976 | Clothe Artpark Lewiston, NY Pat Oleszko Sew What Museum of Modern Art, NYC Taxidermiss Museum of Modern Art, NYC |
1975 | Ball Arena High Jinx Royal Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark Liberty Tug-a-Lugging Fourth of July Parade, Bristol, RI |
1973 | Fourth of July Parade, Bristol, RI Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC |
1972 | Patty Cake Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH New Yuck Women Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC |
1986-1997 | P.S.122 Benefit Lottery Queen P.S.122, NYC |
1966-1980 | Six Sequential Events Annually Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan |
1970-1972 | Macy's Thanksgiving Parade NYC |
1971-84,98 | Easter Parade NYC |
Films & Videos
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2002 | Kneepoleon Oleszko, Robinson |
2001 | Four for the Fourth Oleszko (video) |
1999 | Roamin' Holiday: A View from A Broad Oleszko, Garcas (video) |
1993 | Cruise-wear; Semaphores Oleszko, Robinson |
1989 | Little Red Writing; The Free Little Pig Oleszko, Robinson |
1988 | Where Fools Russian in Better Midler's Mondo Beyondo Oleszko, Schlamme |
1986 | Not a Petty Slight; The Wurst is Yet to Come Oleszko, Robinson |
1985 | Tour de Fahrt Oleszko, Robinson, Zeig Where Fools Russian; Herosheena Oleszko, Carlomusto |
1984 | The Tool Jest Oleszko, Robinson, Weigand |
1982 | The Clown Jewells Oleszko, Robinson |
1979 | Kneel and Dimples; Footsi; Ashpattol Oleszko, Robinson |
1978 | Pat-ad Oleszko, Jones |
1977 | Nudes Reel Nudes Real; Taxidermiss Oleszko, Zeig |
1976 | Mac Flasher, Padettes of P.O.Town; Pattycake Oleszko, Zeig |
1975 | Explorations with Descartes Oleszko, Zeig |
1974 | Patturncoat; Pata-tsouris; Rachel Tension Oleszko, Zeig |
Exibitions & Installations
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1999 | The Errant Space Museum, Guise on Dolls Wesleyan College, Middletown CT Roamin' Holiday: A View from A Broad American Academy in Rome, Italy |
1996 | Air Today, Gone Tomorrow Hallmark Cards, The Zoo, Kansas City, MO |
1995 | The Errant Space Museum Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY |
1993 | Guise on Dolls: Signatures at an Exhibition Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY |
1991 | Forefront: Pat Oleszko National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington, DC |
1990 | The Clown Jewells Lincoln Center, NYC aLoft Souls American Craft Museum, NYC |
1984 | The Tool Jest Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA |
1979 | Coming Out of the Closet The Kitchen, NYC |
1978 | Hand/Some/Show P.S.1 Long Island City, NY |
1973 | Fat Tuesday Museum of Contempoarry Crafts, NYC |
1972 | Patty Cake (Eat Art), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH |
1971 | The New Yuck Women (Act Three) Museum of Contemporary Crafts, NYC |