Patte Loper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work sits at the intersection of ecology, feminism, and science. She was born in Colorado and grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, a subtropical college town where she first developed an appreciation for the ways nature and culture can overlap. She lives and works in New York City and Boston where she is on the faculty of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Recent exhibitions include the Drawing Center, the Mattress Factory, the Bronx Museum, the Bellevue Arts Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Millay, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, and MacDowell. Loper was a member artist at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program from 2014–2019.