Born in Ghana, Patrick Quarm graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana with a BFA in Painting before earning an MFA from Texas Tech University.
Currently living and working between Ghana and the United States. Quarm’s practice explores identity, focusing on the notion of cultural hybridity and social evolution. His paintings weave and splice cultural signifiers from different eras and communities into multi-layered works. He explores confrontations and changes with his identity upon living in a new culture and environment, which he regards as a hybrid identity. The subjects of his paintings are friends, family, and colleagues, who come with their own complex backgrounds of hybridity. Quarm also uses African print fabric for its implication as a politically charged material and associations both culturally specific and representative of global exchange.

Quarm’s work has been featured in numerous institutions, including Gagosian Gallery, London; Sean Kelly Gallery, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Moody Center, Houston; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, DE; Library Street Art Collective, Detroit, MI; K.N.U.S.T Museum Kumasi, Ghana; and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI. His work is held in several public and private collections which include the Syracuse University Museum, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Columbus Museum of Art and Kemper Museum collection.