Andrew James Paterson, Artist

Who is Andrew James Paterson?

Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Ontario.

Andrew James Paterson’s work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, community and capitalism. His works integrates a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film and music.

Now a senior artist, Paterson has contributed to artist-run discourse for nearly four decades. Andrew has served on the boards of Trinity Square Video, A Space, and YYZ Artists’ Outlet. He has curated media-arts and other programmes for these organizations as well as Cinematheque Ontario, Mercer Union, Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Available Light in Ottawa.

Additionally, James has edited and co-edited books for YYZ’s publishing program; and contributed to anthologies published by Gallery TPW and to periodicals such as FILE, IMPULSE, FUSE< and Borderlines.

Between 2011 and 2017, he worked as coordinator for the8fest small-gauge film festival. His media-arts works have shown locally, nationally, and internationally over three and a half decades – in Seoul, Bangalore, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Paris, New York City, and many other centres. Paterson’s artist’s book Collection Correction was published in 2016 by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in early 2018.

Andrew James Paterson: awards

In 2019, Paterson received a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts. We are so excited to present Andrew in our 2025 Electric Eclectics Lineup!

Learn more at Andrew James Paterson’s website.