John Patterson (Canada) works with text and installation to narratively-deconstruct cultural industrialisation, the production of history, and the aesthetics of artistic spirituality. Moving outwards from the studio, his site- and time-specific projects engage audiences through activations which elicit forms of understanding particular to poetry.

His work has been shown at artist-run centers across Canada, and more recently in Germany where he completed his MFA in the program Public Art & New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University, Weimar, in 2023. In 2017, he co-founded Blinkers, a collaboratively-run project space created to exhibit—and critically dialogue with—the work of early career and experimental artists. He has written for publications including Border Crossings Magazine and Canadian Art. In 2021, he co-founded the collective project RITA, an acronym of artists who come together to explore the intrapsychic effects of moving across the world through exhibitions, poetry, workshops, parties, and printed ephemera.