Patricia Cronin is a New York City based conceptual artist who manipulates and reinvigorates traditional art historical forms to question contemporary issues of sexuality, gender & class. Her paintings, sculptures and installations have been exhibited extensively in the United States and Italy including solo exhibitions at Brent Sikkema Gallery and Deitch Projects, New York. Her work has been critically acclaimed in numerous publications including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, and Art in America.

Cronin is the recipient of many awards and grants, among them a 2001 Grand Arts Artist Grant, two Pollock-Krasner grants, the 2006-2007 John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, the New York Foundation for the Arts artist grant's 2007 Deutsche Bank Fellow and most recently a Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Fellowship.

Cronin has held numerous teaching positions including; Yale University, Columbia University, School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She has been invited to lecture on art at the Museum of Modern Art, Christies, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston.

Her writing has appeared in the CAA's Art Journal, Art Papers, Sculpture, and an excerpt from her "Harriet Hosmer Catalogue Raisonne" will be published in the Fall '08 issue of Bomb Magazine. Her first book "The Zenobia Scandal" will be published in early 2009 by zing books and included with issue #22 of zingmagazine.