Patrick Bell was born in Reisterstown, Maryland and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from Edinboro University and subsequently spent two years studying Ceramics at Wichita State University. After completing his MFA at Kent State University Patrick moved back to Maryland where he accepted the 2022-23 Lormina Salter Fellowship at Baltimore Clayworks.

Artist Statement:

I create entities that materialize my relationship to health and the anxieties that surround it. Illness, including persistent struggle with identity and body dysmorphia, as well as maladaptive and destructive self-soothing strategies, manifests itself in my art as metaphysical and anatomical explorations. Fingers, organs, torsos, and other locations both inside and outside the human body become symbolic representations of sensations and moments.