BIO
Patrick Stochmal is an interdisciplinary artist based in T'karonto (Toronto), Ontario working primarily through sculpture and performance to explore the intersections of ontology, queerness, ecology and the sciences. Stochmal has a BFA in Sculpture and Installation with a minor in Integrated Media from OCAD University (2024). He has acquired hands-on BSL-1 laboratory experience during his time at the School of Visual Art's Interdisciplinary Practices in Bio Art program (2023).
ARTIST STATEMENT
Employing open-ended processes of material contamination, growth and deterioration, my work often takes the form of collaborative engagements with non-human entities to consider expanded notions of kinship, queer intimacies and the politics of embodiment. By configuring speculative networks of relation and investigating infrastructures governing public and domestic space, I interrogate moments of instability and collapse to challenge human-centric perspectives of the world and existing social orders.