Patricia Maurides is an artist and educator teaching photography and interdisciplinary art and science studio courses at Stony Brook University. Her photo-based work extends into digital media, performance, and installation, exploring themes of perception, memory, and place. Using projections, scientific imaging, and the natural world as inspiration and content, her work is shaped by her multidisciplinary background in both the natural sciences and fine arts.
Maurides previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was the first director of Intercollege Degree Programs, including The Bachelor of Humanities and Arts (BHA) and The Bachelor of Science and Arts (BSA).While at CMU, Maurides curated the exhibition Neurons and Other Memories – Work In and Around the Brain at the Miller Gallery, in collaboration with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. She co-authored The Brain as Muse - Bridging Art and Neuroscience, which appears in Leonardo, a journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, and received a Carnegie Mellon Proceed - Crosswalk Grant for her NeuroArt Initiative.
Recently, Maurides was honored with a merit award for her photographs in the 2022 Heckscher Museum of Art's Long Island Biennial. She is the recipient of two grants from The Nature Conservancy Andy Warhol Visual Arts Program (2023, 2020) and a 2020 NYFA NYS Keep Creating Project Grant. Maurides previously received grants from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Louisiana Division of the Arts. She exhibits her work across the US and abroad.
Maurides has a Master of Fine Arts in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of South Carolina.
She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and happy dog.
Seahorse Prophesy
(from the throat of Pablo)