Pato Hebert
Pato Hebert is an artist, educator and cultural worker based in New York and Los Angeles. His creative practice engages a range of media including photography, installation, sculpture, language, light, temporality and graphic design. Recent projects include commissions from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and exhibitions at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and the Orange County Museum of Art. Hebert was awarded a 2010 Mid-Career Fellowship for Visual Artists from the California Community Foundation. His work has also been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Creative Work Fund and the Durfee Foundation. He currently teaches as a Visiting Associate Arts Professor in the Art and Public Policy Department at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. He has also worked in community-based HIV prevention initiatives with queer communities of color since 1994. He builds on this work in his current role as Senior Education Associate with the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF), where he helps to develop innovative international approaches to community mobilization and advocacy.
