Resume

Education

2011, 2012 Rice University Glasscock School of Continuing Studies AP Summer Institute | Houston, TX

2004-2006 MFA | New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University | Alfred, NY

2000-2004 BFA | Kansas City Art Institute | Kansas City, MO

1996-2000 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX

Solo Exhibitions

2020 BOUNTY Redbud Gallery | Houston, TX

2017 UPLAND Capitol Street Gallery | Houston, TX

2015 Patrick Renner’s Cabinet of Curiosities Gallery Jatad | Houston, TX

2013 vestigial structures Avis Frank Gallery | Houston, TX

2012 vestigial structures Avis Frank Gallery | Galveston, TX

2011 Our Binocular Vision Window into Houston (Blaffer Gallery satellite project)

have more fun happening at West Alabama Ice House | Houston, TX

2010 A Light in the Attic storefront building installation (corner of 8th and Congress) Austin, TX

2009 xylem Galveston Art Center | Galveston, TX

lorem ipsum Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

found sound (Public Music Reconnaissance) Lawndale Art Center; Houston

2006 trepanned Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

2005 3-D on Swiss Dallas Center for Contemporary Art | Dallas, TX

2003 ilk Poissant-O'Neil Gallery | Houston, TX

A Light in the Attic Destination Gallery | Kansas City, MO

2002 palaver Art League Houston | Houston, TX

{exurb} projects {DiBlasi/Kraig/Renner/Todd}

2016 Array Art League Houston

2015 Topologies Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2014 Crasis The Brandon Gallery | Houston, TX

2013 waveFORMS The Wheeler Art Center | Indianapolis, IN

Exosphere Houston Roxx Music Festival

Isla de la Plata el Rincon Social | Houston, TX

2012 Manifold Main Street Projects | Houston, TX

Galapagos el Rincon Social | Houston, TX

Summerfest! Eleanor Tinsley Park | Houston, TX

2011 Dis, Dat, Deez, Doz: Deux Deux The Joanna | Houston, TX

Aware of All the Happenings Khon’s Wine & Darts | Houston, TX

Input/Output The Joanna | Houston, TX

Summerfest! Eleanor Tinsley Park | Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions

2020 2020 A Conceptual Art Event at Notsuoh Notsuoh | Houston, TX

2019 Orange Show Center for Visionary Art Gala Orange Show | Houston, TX

Anon. Sequitur Micheal Sean Kirby Pop-Up | Houston, TX

Collect It For The Culture II Black Buddha Creative Agency/Winston Contemporary Art | Houston, TX

2018 Déjà Vu Warhous | Houston, TX

2017 Tensile Strength Micheal Sean Kirby Gallery | Houston, TX

Tensile Strength SITE Gallery at the Silos at Sawyer Yards | Houston, TX

SNARE Art Scan Rudolph Blume Projects | Houston, TX

June Design Showcase Kirksey Architecture | Houston, TX

2016   “The Harried Shopper” float | Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade [collaboration with Alex Larsen + Bob Bacon]

HTX Artist Cookbook Edition 1 Exhibition   Civic TV | Houston, TX

Art on the Avenue Avenue Winter Street Studios (featured installation) | Houston, TX

A New Wave: Round 2 Williams Tower Gallery | Houston, TX

Round 45: Local Impact Project Row Houses | Houston, TX

Art League Houston’s 68th Anniversary Gala Hotel Zaza | Houston, TX

Texas Contemporary Art Fair After Party Clarke & Assoc. | Houston, TX

Free Press Summerfest! (entryway gates) NRG | Houston, TX

Trail of Art Heights Blvd Sculpture Project | Houston, TX

2015  “National Bird” float | Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade City of Houston [collaboration with Alex Larsen]

Some Assembly Required: Exquisite Corpse Sculpture G Gallery | Houston, TX [3-person/D. Conner + A. Larsen]

Art League Houston’s 67th Anniversary Gala Hotel Zaza | Houston, TX

With the Grain Houston Community College Central Art Gallery

Collective Solid Deborah Colton Gallery | Houston, TX

Free Press Summerfest! NRG | Houston, TX

pARTy collector’s private residence | Wimberley, TX

Eye Candy Spring Street Studios | Houston, TX

Post Oak School Gala | Houston, TX

Hearts for the Homeless Gala | Houston, TX

Green Valentine G Gallery | Houston, TX

St. John’s School Gala | Houston, TX

Love Street-META City Hall | Houston, TX

Artopia Winter Street Studios | Houston, TX

2014 ALH’s 3rd Holiday Mini-mART & Party Art League Houston

“H-TOWN BOUNTY” float redux | Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade City of Houston [collaboration with Alex Larsen]

Celebrating the Hand: The Orange Show’s 33rd Annual Gala Heritage Center | Houston, TX

Art League Houston’s 66th Anniversary Gala Hotel Zaza | Houston, TX

Love Street-The Houston Scene Phoenicia Market (downtown) | Houston, TX

Entangled Art Scan/Rudolph Projects | Houston, TX

Draped Up and Dripped Out Cliff Gallery, Mountain View College | Dallas, TX

The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

One Degree of Separation Silver St. Studios | Houston, TX

 “The Facecar” artcar feat. International High School students | 27th Annual Art Car Parade The Orange Show | Houston, TX

hunter/gatherer Alonzo Gallery | Houston, TX. [2-person/Alex Larsen]

Art4Life Auction AIDS Foundation Houston

CosMIA company launch | pop-up event space at Washington & Silver St. | Houston, TX [art direction/sculptural installation]

Crasis The Brandon Gallery | Houston, TX

2013 ALH’s 2nd Holiday Mini-mART & Party Art League Houston

“H-TOWN BOUNTY” float | Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade City of Houston [collaboration with Alex Larsen]

Art Crawl | The Foundry | Houston, TX

smART Tour hosted by Michael Meazell | Houston, TX

Art League Houston’s 65th Anniversary Gala Hotel Zaza | Houston, TX

Art4Life Auction AIDS Foundation Houston@Avis Frank Gallery | Houston, TX

Lone Star Explosion Gala G Gallery | Houston, TX

A New Wave: Sculpture and the Next Generation Williams Tower Gallery | Houston, TX

  “Dove for Peace, Love and Sanity” artcar feat. International High School students | 26th Annual Houston Art Car Parade The Orange Show | Houston, TX

Ratio el Rincon Social | Houston, TX

Bringing It All Back Home Art League Houston

2012 Carnival of Cool: Art League Houston Gala

Art4Life Auction AIDS Foundation Houston@4411 Montrose

God: 8th Annual Open Call Exhibition Art Car Museum | Houston, TX

“The Music Monster” artcar feat. International High School students | 25th Annual Houston Art Car Parade The Orange Show | Houston, TX

The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

Hello Everything (II) el Rincon Social | Houston, TX

Bounded Operator el Rincon Social | Houston, TX [2-person/M. Miller]

2011 Hello Everything el Rincon Social | Houston, TX

“The Mammothmobile” artcar feat. International High School students | GloCoMotion New Year’s Eve Parade | Houston, TX

Winter Group Show Avis Frank Gallery | Galveston, TX

Intersecting Impulses Williams Tower | Houston, TX

Spectrum Avis Frank Gallery | Galveston, TX

  Chasing the Mammoth a.k.a. the Mammothmobile feat. International High School students | 24th Annual Houston Art Car Parade The Orange Show; Houston, TX

Building Blocks el Rincon Social Gallery | Houston, TX

3D The Arts Alliance at Clear Lake | Clear Lake, TX

Defining Green Russ Pitman Park | Houston, TX

2010 Tattoo/Taboo Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

Episodic Cave Gallery | Detroit, MI [collab pc/Peter Lutz]

Summerfest! Eleanor Tinsley Park | Houston, TX

Preserving Space Russ Pitman Park | Houston, TX

2009 Holiday Show Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

22nd Annual Dia de los Muertos Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

Flotsam and Jetsam The Arts Alliance at Clear Lake | Clear Lake, TX

Summerfest! Eleanor Tinsley Park | Houston, TX

The Paramilitary Show Houston Fire Museum | Houston, TX

2008 Texas Green Art Car Museum | Houston, TX [collab pc/Allison Ardoin]

Parlour Game Apama Mackey Gallery | Houston, TX

Communication Gap Compound Gallery | Oakland, CA [collab pc/Amanda Kennedy]

Fool’s Ball AS220 | Providence, RI [collaborative installation/Jeremy Radtke]

2007 Buffalo Bayou Art Park Xmas Tree Xhibition Wortham Center | Houston, TX

Rice Design Alliance Gala Auction | 2 Allen Center | Houston, TX

Turning Points Gallery Project | Ann Arbor, MI

Young Sculptors Competition Exhibition Hiestand Gallery | Miami University, Oxford, OH

Logs Paintings Turner Gallery | Alfred, NY [2-person/Matthew Underwood]

Fusion Shepherd School of Music, Rice University | Houston, TX

My Life as a Tree North Harris College | Houston, TX

2006 Houston Sculpture Survey Williams Tower | Houston, TX

Alfred on 25th Florence Lynch Gallery | New York, NY

Off the Wall Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

Thesis Exhibition | Fosdick-Nelson Gallery | Alfred, NY [2-person/Adam Hinterlang]

5th Annual Wish! Dallas Center for Contemporary Art | Dallas, TX

A Family Affair The Bank | Kansas City, MO [collab pc/David Renner]

2005 Dyscrasia Turner Gallery | Alfred, NY [4-person collab/P. Lutz, N. Proutty, J. Rugh]

9th Annual Sonic Arts Festival Cuba | Havana, Cuba

fool Turner Gallery | Alfred, NY [2-person/Dawn Bennett]

2004 Response The Loupe | Prattsburgh, NY [collab pc/Christina West]

Critical Mass Texas State University at San Marcos

Composite Constructions Travis Towers | Houston, TX

The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

Kansas City Art Institute BFA Exhibition H&R Block Art Space | Kansas City, MO

something graspable The Lynn Foundation | Kansas City, MO [2-person/Noah Sanders]

2002 Mass/Void Poissant Gallery | Houston, TX

The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2001 The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2nd Annual Sculpture Show Blossom Street Gallery | Houston, TX

Annual Summer Show Art League Houston | Houston, TX

10th Annual Dia de los Muertos Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2000 The Big Show Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

Lather, Rinse, Repeat Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker Gallery de Refusé, HSPVA | Houston, TX

Public Sculpture

2019 Sluice HEB Buffalo Heights | Houston, TX (Flying Carpet Creative)

Xylem + Lilt High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX (produced by FCC)

Analemma’s Dilemma Sam Houston State University | Huntsville, TX (FCC)

2018 Sun Pitchers Winridge Park | Memphis, TN (FCC)

2017 Dunes Noble Energy | Houston, TX (FCC)

2016 RHYZ Domain Northside | Austin, TX (produced by FCC)

Trumpet Flower Art Blocks/Downtown Management District | Main Street Square | Houston, TX (produced by FCC)

2014 Conduit Transported + Renewed/HAA | Eastwood Park | Houston, TX

2013 Funnel Tunnel Art League Houston/HAA/COH | Montrose Blvd | Houston, TX

2006 Giving Tree Oak Forest Elementary | Houston, TX

Awards

2020 #1 on Glasstire’s Top Five for the week of February 20, 2020

2016 Artist of the Year | American Institute of Architects (Houston chapter)

Artist of the Year | Houston Press

2015 MasterMind Award | Houston Press

2014 1st Place Best School category | Houston Art Car Parade

2013 Museum District Business Alliance Cultural Arts Community Improvement Award (for Funnel Tunnel)

1st Place Best Political Message | Houston Art Car Parade

2012 3rd Place School category | Houston Art Car Parade

2011 Mayor’s Cup | Houston Art Car Parade

2009 Coming Up Taller national award for excellence for a non-profit educational program given to Blaffer Gallery’s YAAP program

2004 Honorable Mention, Kansas City Art Institute BFA Exhibition

2002 2nd place, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2001 1st place, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

Employment

2016-present co-founder//design and fabrication lead, Flying Carpet Creative | Houston, TX

2017 professor, Glassell School of Art | Houston, TX

2014-2016 part-time art teacher, SIS | Houston, TX

2012-2013 art/AP studio art teacher, Sharpstown International 6-12 School | Houston, TX

2011-2012 art/AP art history teacher, Sharpstown International 6-12 School | Houston, TX

2010-2011 art department chair, International High School at Sharpstown | Houston, TX

Spring 2010 adjunct faculty, Houston Community College | Houston, TX

2008-2010 art installer, freelance for various galleries and private collectors | Houston, TX

2008-2010 mentor, Young Artists’ Apprenticeship Program (YAAP), University of Houston | Houston, TX

2006-2010 teacher, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) Houston, TX

2007-2008 director, Apama Mackey Gallery | Houston, TX

2006-2007 preparator, Barbara Davis Gallery | Houston, TX

2001-2004 technician, Kansas City Art Institute Wood Shop | Kansas City, MO

2001-2004 technician, Kansas City Art Institute Metal Shop | Kansas City, MO

1999-2000 studio assistant for artist Lee Littlefield | Houston, TX

Museum Collections

2020 ten drawings accessioned into permanent collection, New Orlean Museum of Art, LA

2018 rest Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum | Houston, TX

Permanent Collections

2020 constellation White & Case LLP | Houston, TX

Residencies

2016 Project Row Houses | Houston, TX

2008 AS220 | Providence, RI

2007 Sculpture Space | Utica, NY

Visiting Artist

2017 St. John’s School Visiting Artist Program (inaugural artist) Houston, TX

Artist Talks

2020 “Talkin’ Trash” with Bill Davenport (in conjunction with BOUNTY) Redbud Gallery | Houston, TX

2019 Visiting artist lecture, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX

2017 Keynote speaker, Texas Art Education Association Annual Conference | Galveston, TX

2015 Keynote speaker, Scholastic Art Gold and Silver Key Awards Ceremony | Houston, TX

{exurb} lecture: Lawndale Art Center | Houston, TX

2013 Visiting artist lecture, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX

{exurb} lecture: University of Indianapolis | Indianapolis, IN

2012 {exurb} lecture: Artist SPEAKeasy, Fresh Arts | Houston, TX

2011 {exurb} lecture: input/output The Joanna | Houston, TX

Slide Jam Contemporary Art Museum Houston

2007 Slide Jam Contemporary Art Museum Houston

Interviews

2013 “Montrose Boulevard’s Funnel Tunnel Art Display” Houston Matters by Edel Howlin KUHF 88.7, Houston

http://www.houstonmatters.org/segments/segment-d/2013/09/05/montrose-boulevards-funnel-tunnel-art-display

Living Art with Michael Woodson and Alex Tu KPFT 90.1, Houston

“26th Annual Art Car Parade” Houston Matters by Edel Howlin KUHF 88.7, Houston

http://www.houstonmatters.org/segments/segment-e/2013/05/10/26th-annual-art-car-parade

Publications

2020 Patrick Renner’s “Bounty” at Redbud | Robert Boyd | Glasstire

https://glasstire.com/2020/03/11/patrick-renners-bounty-at-redbud/

Artist reworks hunks of junk into ‘Bounty’ | Molly Glentzer | Houston Chronicle

https://preview.houstonchronicle.com/art-exhibits/an-artist-reworks-hunks-of-junk-into-bounty-15099676

Patrick Renner | Donna Tennant | Visual Art Source http://www.visualartsource.com/index.php?page=editorial&pcID=17&aID=5553

Glasstire Top Five: February 20, 2020 (#1 position)

https://glasstire.com/2020/02/20/top-five-february-20-2020-with-patrick-renner/

2016 HTX Artist Cookbook, Edition 1: Beta Copy | Civic TV Laboratories & FIU Texas Publication

https://www.civictv.org/htx-artist-cookbook

Glasstire Top Five: October 20, 2016

https://glasstire.com/2016/10/20/top-five-october-20-2016-with-amada-miller/

2015 Patrick Renner’s “Funnel Tunnel” does New Orleans | Glasstire

https://glasstire.com/2015/06/25/patrick-renners-funnel-tunnel-does-new-orleans/

Glasstire Top Five: March 19, 2015

https://glasstire.com/2015/03/19/top-five-march-19-2015/

2014 Splendid Esplanades | Bill Davenport | Glasstire

https://glasstire.com/2014/08/13/splendid-esplanades/

Houston artists are good at this public art thing | Christina Rees | Glasstire

https://glasstire.com/2014/06/29/houston-artists-are-good-at-this-public-art-thing/

2013 “Funnel Tunnel” by Zoie Brown | paper* *TheHighSchoolforthePerformingandVisualArtsNewspaper front page, Vol. 5 Issue 2

http://hspvapaper.com/2013/10/02/issue-2/

“Funnel Tunnel” Arts InSight with Ernie Manous

http://www.houstonpbs.org/shows/localproductions/arts-insight/

“Patrick Renner’s ‘Funnel Tunnel’ Installation Celebrates Montrose” by Altamese Osborne | Houston Press

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2013/08/patrick_renners_funnel_tunnel.php

“Sketches: Patrick Renner on ‘Funnel Tunnel’ (VIDEO)” by Peter Holley | The Houstonia Magazine

http://www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and- _ entertainment/on-the-town/articles/artist-spotlight-patrick-renner-august-2013

“Crazy ‘Funnel Tunnel’ Stops Traffic in Montrose: It’s hard not to look” by Barbara Kuntz | Culture Map

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/08-14-13-crazy-funnel- _ tunnel-stops-traffic-in-montrose-its-hard-not-to-look/

“The Public in Public Art: Houston Community Helps Create ‘Funnel Tunnel’” by Paula Newton | Glasstire

http://glasstire.com/2013/07/22/the-public-in-public-art-houston-community-helps-create-funnel-tunnel/

“Colorful ‘Funnel Tunnel’ turning heads on Montrose” by Molly Gletzner | Houston Chronicle

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston- _ texas/article/Funnel-Tunnel-turning-heads-on-Montrose-4721827.php

002Houston magazine (pg. 28)

http://issuu.com/002houston/docs/002september

2012 Montrose Esplanade Project, Part I: Renner’s Funnel Tunnel to Recapture Art League’s Inversion Glory

https://glasstire.com/2012/12/11/montrose-esplanade-project-part-i-renners-funnel-tunnel-to-recapture-art-leagues-inversion-glory/

“Patrick Renner ‘Bounded Operator’ at el Rincon Social” by Carrie Schneider | Glasstire

www.glasstire.com/2012/04/06/patrick-renner-bounded-operator-at-el-rincon-social/

“Patrick Renner’s Geology Lesson” by Robert Boyd | The Great God Pan is Dead

www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/04/patrick-renners-geology-lesson.html

“Patrick Renner’s Predecessors” by Robert Boyd | The Great God Pan is Dead

http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/05/by-robert-boyd-patrick-renner.html