About
Patrick Boyd is an award-winning artist whose work explores time, motion, and space. With a background in holography, photography, and 3D lenticular works, Patrick creates immersive experiences that engage viewers through a range of perspectives. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, he has received notable accolades including a Fulbright Fellowship and an Artist-in-Residence position at the Museum of Holography in New York City. He has also been awarded fellowships at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln in Germany and Tsukuba University in Japan.
Patrick’s art is an eclectic blend of photography, holography, science, and technology. His innovative lenticular prints and holographic works explore the intersection of light, perception, and narrative, offering viewers a futuristic experience that is imbued with nostalgia. His imagery—often combining industrial and bucolic elements—creates an emotive world where two and three dimensions blur, and where real life, light, shadow, and motion collide.
His work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in prestigious collections, including the Kunsthalle Würth, ZKM in Karlsruhe, the MIT Museum in Boston, and the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Patrick’s works are notoriously difficult to capture in photographs, as their true depth and motion can only be experienced firsthand.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards:
Prudential Insurance R.C.A. Photography Prize. 1988
Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Light Transmission. 1989 (One year grant to work, study & travel in U.S.A.)
New Horizons Award 1990 International Society for the Arts, Sciences & Technology. (Leonardo)
Museum of Holography, New York, NY. 1991 Direct Grant Award (materials)
Fellow in Media Arts 1991 Kunsthochschule fur Medien Koln
Monbusho (Japanese Government Award) grant to study new media at Tsukuba University, Japan 1994
Awesome Foundation London. May 2015
Arts Council Wales. International Opportunities Award 2015 (funding towards residency at Ohio State University)
Hologram Foundation Paris. Production Award 2016
Arts Council Wales. International Opportunities Award 2023 (funding towards Hibakusha Lenticular project)
Hodic Japan. Suzuki-Okada Memorial Prize. 2025
A.I.R.s
Museum of Holography, New York, NY. 1989-90 One Years Artist in Residence.
Holocentre. Long Island City, NY 2 week residences. 2001 & 2003
Holocenter NY NY and Ohio State University Pulse Laser residency 2015 & 2016
Selected Solo Shows
Discreetly Bizarre Gallery, 1989 . New Cavendish St, London.
Museum of Holography “10 Dogs & Other Holograms” 1990, New York, NY.
Museum of Holographie & Neue Visuelle Medien, Pulheim. Germany “Sightseeing in the City of Light” 1991
Royal College of Art Link Gallery. Darwin Building. London 1992
Butler Museum of American Art. Youngstown, Ohio. 2001-2005
Hereford College of Art Selected Works,. 2009
University Hospital Coventry Photography project with Beyond Design. 2009
Gallery 286. “Looking back & forward” Earls Court. London 2014
Gallery 286. Earl’s Court. London “Man with a Holo Camera” March 2017
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio “Man with a Holo Camera” May-Sept 2017.
Museum of Art, Deland, Florida “Man with a Holo Camera” Oct-Dec 2017
Gallery 286. Earl’s Court. London “Micro Mayhem” February 2020
Woolff Gallery. Charlotte St. London. October 2020
Micro Meyhem. Courtyard Gallery Hereford 2022
Model Behaviour. Woolff Gallery. Charlotte Street. London 2022
End of the Line. Woolff Gallery. Charlotte Street. London 2023
Tryst Art Fair. Torrance Art Museum. Los Angeles. 2023
Portraits of the Hibakusha. Soka Bunka Centre. Shinjuku. Tokyo 2024
Into the Void. Velrose Gallery. Barbican. London 2024
Minor Misdemmeanours. Woolff Gallery. Charlotte Street. London 2024
Into the Void Hideharu Fukasaku Gallery Roppongi. Tokyo 2026
Artist in Residence Dore Abbey, Abbey Dore. Herefordshire September 2006
Selected Group Shows:
The Thinking Image”: Royal Photographic Society. Bath, U.K. 1989
Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery 1989
University of Strathclyde, Collins Gallery: Scotland 1989
National Science Museum, Haifa, Israel 1989-90
Visionen Gurzenich, Koln, Germany 1991 Sheffield Media Show Sheffield City Polytechnic. 1992
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan 1994 Tokyo Shashin Bijustukan 1994 & ‘95
Holograms. The first 60 Years. Willis Museum Basingstoke.
Ripple Effect. Holocenter. Governors Island. NYC 2017
Iridescence. Gallery 24b. Paris, France 2017
Iridescesnce. Art on Canal St NY NY 2018
Royal West of England Academy Open 2019, 2023 & 2024.
Art in the age of Now. Fulham Town Hall. London 2021
Imaging the Third Dimension. Kunsthalle Würth. Schwäbisch Hall. 2024-2026
Born Chelsea, London, 1960
Education London College of Printing. 1979 General foundation course in graphic arts. West Surrey College of Art. 1980-84 B.A. Hons in Photography. Royal College of Art. 1985-88 M.A. in Photography & Holography.
Living in Monmouthshire, Wales since 2006
