Patricia Olynyk

Known for collaborating across disciplines and projects that explore the mind-brain relationship, interspecies communication and the phenomenology of perception, her work examines "the way that experiences and biases toward scientific subjects affect interpretations in specific contexts.

Olynyk's multi-sensory installations explore the "concept of "umwelt," as described in the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and interpreted by Thomas A. Sebeok (1976)... the world as it is experienced by a particular organism.

[3][4][5] Her cross-disciplinary work often includes microscopy and biomedical imaging,[6][7] and is described as "something uncanny... where one's consciousness can neither respond in a unified way to the bodily sensations or float free in imaginary space; it is caught in the in-between.

[11] Solo exhibitions include Sensing Terrains at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. in 2006, and at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York in 2007;[12][13] Dark Skies at the Art I Sci Center Gallery at UCLA in 2012,[14][15] Transfigurations at Galeria Grafica Tokio, Japan in 2003,[16] and The Mutable Archive, at Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri in 2020.

[17] Olynyk was part of a three-person exhibition, Umwelt, which took "the concept of collaboration to new heights and complications,"[18][1] at the Zooid Institute Collective, BioBAT Art Space, at the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 2019.