Patricia Maurides is a visual artist and educator exploring themes of perception, memory, identity, and place. Her photo-based work encompasses traditional methods of photography as well as digital media, performance, sound, and installation. She is frequently a performer within her image compositions using projections, scientific imaging, and the natural environment as inspiration and content. Her multidisciplinary background is rooted in both the natural sciences and the fine arts.

Maurides teaches in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University and received a 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her courses include photography (analog, digital) and art - science studios (Art+theBrain, Art+Biology). From 1999 to 2016, Maurides taught at Carnegie Mellon University and served as the first academic director of intercollege degree programs: Bachelor of Humanities and Arts (BHA) and The Bachelor of Science and Arts (BSA).

Maurides 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. She curated the exhibition Neurons and Other Memories – Work In and Around the Brain at the Miller Gallery at CMU, in collaboration with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Maurides received a Carnegie Mellon Proceed/Crosswalk Grant for her NeuroArt Initiative.

In 2022, Maurides was honored with a merit award for her photographs in the Heckscher Museum of Art Long Island Biennial. She is the recipient of two grants from the Andy Warhol Preserve Visual Arts Program (2023, 2020) and is the recipient of a 2020 NYFA NYS Keep Creating Project Grant for her collaborative photography project, Seeing Happiness. She 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.

Maurides has an MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of South Carolina.
She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and happy dog.
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