ABOUT 

Padaric Kolander is a mixed media artist primarily working in drawing, painting and printmaking. His work mainly focuses on layering personal observations and experiences with people, plants and animals arranged seemingly out of context. 

Padaric Kolander grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and earned his BFA from Eastern New Mexico University. He has exhibited across the country and is a recipient of the Hunting Art Prize. Padaric currently lives in Austin, where he splits his time as a graphic designer and photographer for a local stone company, and working in his home studio.

b. Worthington, Minnesota, 1979

STATEMENT 

I am a contemporary artist observing our ridiculous, willful ignorance while I eat and drink and draw funny pictures on the table cloth. My work is largely based on personal observations and experiences. 

I begin with small studies and renderings meant to translate these into different possible interpretations. Elements are taken out of context and recombined into new environments where they are invariably reinterpreted with different twists and meanings through common symbols, misleading clues, apparent non sequiturs and juxtoposition.

My primary mediums of drawing, painting and printmaking similarly evolve, influence and inform eachother as I continue to explore new compositions and techniques while revisiting, improving or abandoning old ones.

-Padaric Kolander

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 Selective Memory, Group Exhibition, Verdant Gallery, Austin, Texas

2025 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2025 Marfa Invitational, Group Exhibition, Saint George Hall, Marfa, Texas

2024 Once More, With Feeling, Group Exhibition, Big Medium, Austin, Texas

2024 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2023 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2022 Near From Far, Canvas, Solo Exhibition, Austin, Texas

2022 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2022 Hell Year, Canvas, Austin, Texas
2021 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2019 Sixth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Juror Hilde Nelson, Curatorial Assistant of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art) 

2018 Solo Show[Down] 2017 Runners Up, Art7 Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Jennifer Casler Price has held the position of curator for Asian and non-Western art,
 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) 

2018 Fifth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Christina Rees, Editor-in-Chief of Glasstire, Dallas Texas) 

2017 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
 (Juror: Toby Kamps, Director and Chief Curator, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas) 

2017 Solo Show[Down] 2017, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Jennifer Casler Price has held the position of curator for Asian and non-Western art,
 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) 

2016 Artspace111: Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Eric M. Lee, Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) 

2016 VAA 33rd Juried Open Exhibition, at BLUEorange Gallery, Houston, Texas
 (Juror: Dan Allison, Gallery Owner, D.M. Allison Gallery, Houston, Texas)

2016 Hunting Art Prize Winner, Houston, Texas
 (Jurors: Catherine Behrend, Former Deputy of the New York City Public Art Program,
 Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU School of Professional Studies diploma program, New York
 Alex Gregory, Curator of Art, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas
 Alexander Rich, Assistant Professor of Art History at Florida Southern College
 Director of the Melvin and Burks Art Galleries, Florida)

2015 Hopeless Happiness, Black Lagoon Gallery, Austin, Texas

2015 Artspace111: Second Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Fort Worth, Texas
 (Juror: Vernon Fisher, Artist, Fort Worth, Texas)

2015 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2015 Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Houston, Texas
 (Jurors: Adam Justice, Curator of Art at Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
 Amy Moorefield, Deputy Director of Exhibitions at Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia
 Julien Robson, Curator of the Shands Collection, Louisville, Kentucky)

2014 Harnett Biennial of American Prints, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
 (Juror: Mary Fisher, Founder of Mary Fisher Clinical AIDS Research and Education Fund,
 University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama)

2014 Exploration & Vice, Gallery Black Lagoon, Austin, Texas

2014 Austin Image Program, East Airside Gallery, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas

2014 Print Houston: Next, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas
 (Juror: Yizhak Elyashiv, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island)

2014 West Austin Studio Tour, Padaric Kolander Studio, Austin, Texas

2014 Hunting Art Prize Finalist, Houston, Texas
 (Jurors: Marie Bosarge, Art Collector and Founder of Music Doing Good, Inc., Houston, Texas
 Leila Cartier, Director of Exhibitions and Curator William of King Museum, Abingdon, Virginia
 Stephen Wicks, Barbara W. and Bernard E. Bernstein Curator of Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee)

2014 McNeese National Works On Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
 (Juror: Louis Grachos, Director Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas)

2014 The Contemporary Print, Big Medium Gallery at Canopy, Austin, Texas
 (Jurors: Francesca Consagra, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas;
 Katherine Brimberry, Flatbed Press, Austin, Texas;
 Jeffery Dell, Texas State University, San Marcos)

2013 Atlanta Print Biennial, Barbara Archer and Erickson Clock, Atlanta, Georgia
 (Juror: Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)