Venus Patel

Venus Patel’s work is centred around her experience as a transfemme of colour, navigating the sociological role that conformity plays in a cis-heteronormative world. She utilises a unique blend of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted work that is able to speak on timely subject matters such as hate crimes, religious guilt, and queer/POC bodily suppression. Her art practice is primarily film and performance based, and incorporates sculpture and music. Public performance is a key element in her projects, which she uses to investigate the displacement of herself (the “other”) within daily city life (the “norm”). This is fortified by incorporating fantastical story elements within reality. Her artwork has always been a tool for her to express her daily struggles and allow herself the freedom of self-expression that she is not normally granted.

Born in Los Angeles, Venus Patel graduated from TU Dublin in 2022 with a BA Honours in Fine Arts. Solo exhibitions include: Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh (2024) and Monsters of the Apocalypse, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2023). Selected group exhibitions include: In The Press, Hypha Studios, London (2025); Power of Us, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2024); and The Queeratorial, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2023). She is a recipient of the RDS Taylor Art Award (2022), Arts Council Bursary Award (2024), and Romilly Walton Masters Award (2023). Her film work has been screened in festivals across Europe and the US.