Patrick "Pato" Hebert is an intermedia artist, educator and cultural worker based in Los Angeles.

His work explores the aesthetics, ethics and poetics of interconnectedness.

The practice works across a range of media including photography, installation, sculpture, language, light, temporality and graphic design.

Progressive praxis, spatial dynamics and the spirit of social topographies are of particular interest.

Hebert received a 2010 Mid-Career Fellowship for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation. In 2008 he received the Excellence in Photographic Teaching Award from Center in Santa Fe, NM. His work has also been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Creative Work Fund and the Durfee Foundation.

During the 2011-12 school year he is teaching as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

He also serves as the Senior Education Associate with the Global Forum on MSM & HIV, where he develops design and publishing interventions as an innovative approach to HIV prevention and advocacy.


Pictured at Left: "Untitled," 2011.