Patricia Villalobos Echeverría was born in the United States and grew up in Managua, Nicaragua. She received her MFA from West Virginia University (1990) and her BFA from Louisiana State University (1988). Recent individual exhibitions include Aguasmalas (Blackwaters) at MediaNoche (New York, NY), 2008; Aflujo•Afflux at Artist Image Resource (Pittsburgh, PA) and Laura Mesaros Gallery, (Morgantown, WV), 2006; and Alamar (Asea) at PROYECTO’ACE (Buenos Aires, Argentina), 2006. Notable group exhibitions include: Imprint 2008: Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial (Warsaw, Poland); Third International Biennale for the Artist’s Book 2008 (Alexandria, Egypt), 2008; IX International Cuenca Biennial (Cuenca, Ecuador), 2007; Falun Triennial at Dalarnas Museum (Falun, Sweden), 2007; and the International Print Triennial (Krakow, Poland & Oldenburg, Germany), 2006. Notable grants include the Oregon Arts Council Fellowship, PA Council for the Arts Fellowship, Creative Heights Residency Fellowship from the Heinz Endowment and residencies at Artist Image Resource, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and the MacDowell Arts Colony. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is a Professor of Art at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.