Patrick Lichty is a conceptual media artist, activist, curator, and educator. Lichty is currently a Creative Digital Media professor at Winona State University.
Artwork Lichty was part of the activist collective RTMark (pronounced "art-mark"). Lichty was also member of RTMark's successor group The Yes Men, and is featured in the collective's first documentary.
He is a creator of digital tapestries, especially Jacquard weaving, and is noted alongside Chuck Close as a seminal contemporary artist in this genre. In December 2014, he had a solo exhibition of his tapestry and robotic drawing work called "Sensible Concepts: Mediation as a Way of Being".
He is a co-founder of Second Front, a pioneering Second Life performance art group.
Lichty was an associate member of the first Augmented Reality art collective.
New Media Curation Lichty is a noted New Media art curator, speaking at venues such as the Tate Modern, and is published in the book, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond: Curatorial Models for Digital Art, edited by Whitney Museum of American Art digital curator, Christiane Paul.
In December 2021, Lichty curated Through the Mesh: Media, Borders, and Firewalls at the NeMe Art Center in Limassol, Cyprus
Residencies, recognition, and awards Summer School: Curatorial Masterclass (with CRUMB) (2009) Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency (2013) Herb Alpert Foundation/CalArts Fellowship (Film/Video – RTMark) 2002 Eyebeam Artist in Residence 2009 Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award (2001)
Collections/Galleries Lichty's work is in collections of The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and the Smithsonian.Helios Photography Online, SPRAWL: American Landscape in Translation He also works as a curator and critic.
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