Patricia Anderson Turner, Biography
Patricia Anderson Turner addresses social and political issues with mixed media and textile art; her subjects are as varied as war, mental illness, social media, climate change, the rise of white supremacy, and gun control among other thorny issues of our times.
Turner’s career highlights include a First Place at the Verona Museum of Modern Art in Italy, 2011, as well as top honors in multiple museums, eight years in the Reece Museum’s political “FL3TCH3R Exhibit” with awards in 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2021, and 2022, the Museum of Modern Art in Tallahassee, the Foosaner Museum, and more.
Turner is a featured artist for OppArt which provides art for The Nation magazine. She is an invitational member of “Unnatural Election,” curated by Andrea Arroyo as well as a member of “Violence Transformed,” an invitational group of artists exhibiting in Boston. Several of Turner’s pieces are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Michigan State University, the Human Rights Art Exhibit, and featured in scholarly publications such as Quilts and Human Rights, forwarded by Bishop Desmond TuTu.
A member of the National Association of Women Artists since 2019, Turner has received 4 major awards in NAWA’s national exhibits to include First Place for Mixed Media/Collage, 2021, in the 132nd Annual NAWA exhibit and Best of Show for her installation “Assault on Orlando”. In February of 2022, Turner curated female artists in three large galleries at the historic Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center in Fort Myers, FL.
Turner is currently exhibiting in Manhattan, Boston, Tennessee, Fort Lauderdale, and the Biscayne Institute. She is looking forward to an upcoming 90 minute one-on-one interview at the Sarasota Art Museum with art critic Nanette Crist on February 16, 2023.