About Pat Pauly

With works that carry a graphic, color-saturated palette using her hand printed fabric, Pat Pauly’s fiber art is seen around the world. Her textile work began in the early 1980s and was first accepted in Quilt National ’83, and has continued being shown in major exhibitions. Her fiber art’s distinction is with using a strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. Her work is in both private and public collections.

With a degree in art, and graduate work in design and fine art, Pat chose fiber art as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, England, and Australia, in design and surface design. Her lectures are fast paced, funny, and often speak on the intersection of traditional quilt arts with contemporary fiber art. She brings the same pace and relaxed atmosphere to her workshops.

Often seen in exhibitions, Pat’s work is also widely published, and she has appeared in Quilting Arts televised segments. If not teaching, she is found in her studio in Rochester, New York where she has the best advantage of being surrounded by great artists as well as the beauty of the Finger Lakes.

Selected exhibitions

2011 Creative Force, SAQA travelling exhibition, USA
2011 Open European Quilt Championships 2011, Veldhoven, Netherlands
2011 Sum of the Parts: Art Quilts of Pat Pauly, Rochester, New York
2011 Parallax / Views of Contemporary Quilt Artists, Rochester, New York
2011 Quilt National, Athens, Ohio
2011 Textiles in a Tube, Greenville, South Carolina
2010 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2010 Images 2010, Lowell, Massachusetts
2010 Creative Force, SAQA traveling exhibitions
2009 Quilt National, Athens, Ohio
2009 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2009 Points of View, Houston, Texas
2009 AQS Quilt Show, Paducah, Kentucky
2009 Musings, Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2008 A Personal Landscape, SUNY Oswego, New York
2008 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2008 Magnificent Inspiration, Rochester, New York
2007 Common Thread, Rochester, New York
2007 The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK
2007 Quilting by the Lake , Morrisville, New York
2007 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Auburn, New York
2006 Art Quilts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts
2006 New Art from an American Tradition, Williamsburg, Virginia
2006 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Auburn, New York
1989 Pat Pauly – Quilts, Rochester, New York
1988 Quilts Not to Sleep With, Rochester, New York
1988 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Auburn, New York
1986 Hands Across the Border, Buffalo, New York
1985 Fabrications, Missoula, Montana
1983 Quilt National, Athens, Ohio 

2027 Quilt National, Athens, Ohio
2026 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2025 Form Follows Function, New Albany, Indiana
2025 Gallery: Pieces and Resistance, Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, UK
2025 Solo Exhibition, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts
2025 Surface Design, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2025 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2024 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2024 The Dove Project, Geneva, New York
2024 No Time to Be Tame, Clifton Springs, New York
2023 Sew Me a Color, RIT, Rochester, New York2023 Quilt National, Athens, Ohio
2023 Form Not Function, Carneigie Center for Art and History, New Albany, Indiana
2023 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2022 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2021 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2021 Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penney, Buffalo, NY
2021 Quilt National ‘21, Athens, Ohio
2019 Finger Lakes, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
2019 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
2019 Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penney, Buffalo, New York
2019 Quilt National, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, Ohio
2018 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2018 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2018 Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
2017 Quilt National '17, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, Ohio
2016 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2016 Pat Pauly: Contemporary Quilts, Geisel Gallery, Rochester, New York
2015 Art in Craft Media, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York
2015 Made in New York, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, New York
2015 Pat Pauly Contemporary Quilts, Solo Show, Geisel Gallery, Rochester, NY
2015 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2015 Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, Kentucky
2015 Radical Elements, SAQA Traveling Exhibition
2015 Quilts 20/20: Traditional Roots, Contemporary Art, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2015 Fiber Currents/Current Fibers, Perella Gallery, Johnstown, New York
2015 Time of Day, Solo Show, Axom Gallery, Rochester, New York
2014 Form Not Function, Carnegie Center, New Albany, Indiana
2014 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York
2014 Made in New York, Auburn, New York
2013 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Auburn, New York
2013 Pieces and Resistance, Solo Show, Iowa City, Iowa
2013 Fabulous Fiber & Bewitching Baskets, Windsor, New York
2012 Quilts = Art = Quilts, Auburn, New York
2012 Form Not Function, New Albany, Indiana
2011-2012 Design in Fiber / Pat Pauly, Rochester, New York
2011-2012 Focus:Fiber, Canton, Ohio
2011 Quilts=Art=Quilts, Auburn, New York