Artist in Residence: Patrick Costello - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Artist in Residence: Patrick Costello

Artist in Residence: Patrick Costello

From June through September 2024, Brooklyn Botanic Garden hosts Patrick Costello as artist in residence. Costello will create an immersive and participatory processional performance, while exploring plant-pollinator interactions as dynamic theater pieces unto themselves. The final piece will be presented at the end of September.

Public Programs

About the Artist

A smiling man in wire glasses and a blue shirt in front of a wall of green leaves

Patrick Costello is an artist whose work comes alive through multispecies collaborative relationships—integrating practices of ecological horticulture, sculpture, printmaking, and performance to create ephemeral spaces for transformation.

Patrick has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York. He has performed in venues including Ars Nova, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Public Theater, and at intentional communities, squats, and underground venues around the world.

Patrick has been invited to residencies at MacDowell, Shandaken Projects, the Soil Factory, and ACRE. He holds an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College and a BA in Printmaking from the University of Virginia.

Artist website: patrickjcostello.net

Support

Art in the Garden is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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