Biography

Patrick Fraser is a British artist based in Ridgefield CT. Before his move east he lived in LA for 18 years. He graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a BA Hons in Fine Art and completed his Art Foundation at Norwich University of the Arts. He is inspired by objects, landscapes and people that have been forgotten or ignored: women truckers standing by their rigs, a plastic bottle washed up on the shore or concrete bus shelters: abandoned architecture of the everyday world. He’s interested in the shifting boundaries between the natural world and the human mark on it. His portrait work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has exhibited work in Month of Photography in Los Angeles and the Annenberg Space for Photography. He photographs editorial features for weekend supplements The Sunday Times, Observer and Guardian and made portraits for British Vogue, Vanity Fair and Esquire. He has made campaigns for many leading US brands including Google, Apple, Boeing, Netflix, Microsoft and Hilton Hotels. Patrick continues to make documentary and experimental films. His first narrative short film was released in 2018.  He has always loved the Mojave desert in California and often visits his cabin in Joshua Tree.  You might also find him on a court playing tennis at USTA 4.5 level. 

Selected commercial clients

Apple, Boeing, Netflix, Hatch.co, Westman Atelier, American Ballet Theater, BBDO New York, GE, AAA Insurance, Leo Burnett Canada, Google, Pinterest, Foster + Partners, Go Fund Me, Barkley Agency, Rivers Agency, FCB Chicago, IDEO, Johnnie Walker, Tommy Hilfiger, Commune, Air Tahiti Nui, PNC Bank, Deutsch, Skype, Microsoft, BBDO Minneapolis, Periera & O'Dell, Hakuhodo, Hilton Hotels Worldwide, Wells Fargo Bank, Johnson & Johnson, Hanes, 360i, Dentsu, Sony Records, Bass Shoes, Gensler, Comcast, DDB, eBay, McCann NYC, MAC Cosmetics, Ghiardelli Chocolate, Atlantic Records, Campbell-Ewald, Leo Burnett Chicago, Lookmatic eyewear, Motorola, Beanpole, IFC, PETA, West Elm, Janssen, USPS, Swirl, Sidecar, Samsung, Jerome C. Rousseau, VSA & Partners, Enso Collaborative, Pacific Northwest Ballet, LA Dance Project, Calder Blake, Jamie Wolf Jewellery, Faircloth & Supply, Fantastic Sam's, Vanity Fair Lingerie,

Selected editorial

Sunday Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, British Vogue, WSJ Magazine, Esquire, Guardian Weekend, Vanity Fair, NYLON, Nowness, EnRoute, Billboard, Blackbook, BLAST, L’Optimum, Les Inrockuptibles, Marie Claire, Company, HUCK, Der Spiegel, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, ES Magazine, Australian Vogue, Fast Company, Inc, FT Magazine, How to Spend It, Glamour UK, GQ, Intersection, Outside, Project Magazine, Popular TV, Pony Step, People, Paris Match, Telerama, Tatler, The Advocate, Telegraph Magazine, Harper's Bazaar Brazil, Interview, Spin, Shortlist UK, Mojo, Rolling Stone, The Wrap.

Selected Press
A Photo Editor: Art Producers Speak
aCurator
Huck Magazine
LA Times
aPhotoEditor: Art of the Personal Project
Huffington Post
Thrive Global
The Arts Desk, Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013, National Portrait Gallery
Dance Spirit
Communication Arts

Books
Ambulates 2018
Vail Dance, Material Press 2016
Ballerina: Carla Körbes, Pacific Northwest Ballet Press 2015
Portraits, The World’s Top Photographers, RotoVision 2004

Exhibitions
Forgotten Places, LoosenArt, Rome 2023
Art of Elysium, Los Angeles 2017
MOPLA Photo Book Exhibition 2017, Ambulantes
Smile, Orange County Great Park Gallery 2016
Sparce, Tiny Gallery Venice CA 2016
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery London 2015
Threshold, Tiny Gallery Venice CA 2015
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery London 2013
Quake, Quixote Studios Los Angeles 2011
Near & Far East Los Angeles 2010
L8S ANG3LES Anneberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles 2009
In-Famous, The Lab Gallery Culver City CA, portraits 2008

Awards
Artful Initiative Grant winner CT 2023
Life-Framer winner judged by Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

“Titled simply ‘Window Shopping, Indiana’ Patrick’s portrait, whether candid or posed, is a beautiful evocation of urban ennui – perhaps seen as an apathy towards consumerism, but more likely the boredom of being a certain age in a small town of dusty furniture shops, soulless gas stations and limited possibilities. Brilliantly done.” – Life Framer

Testimonial

“I have had the unbelievably good fortune to work with many extraordinarily talented people over the course of the last several decades.  There is, however, perhaps only a handful of them  — covering many disciplines — that I would regard as clearly different than the rest.   I’ve just recently been reminded of this fact as the beneficiary of working in some rarified air on behalf of Boston Scientific and their Watchman A-fib medical device.

 Enter Patrick Fraser.

 Patrick represents one of those fingers on my handful.  Whether it be intellect, creativity, dogged work ethic, unbridled passion, fathoms of experience, lightning in a bottle — whatever — there is something about his approach and participation that has always produced the kind of magic not everyone else can or does consistently deliver.  Every single time.

 
He just doesn’t miss.  And I have a theory as to why:  While Patrick has an incomparable eye and is a conceptual, visual thinker/artist of the highest order — contrary to conventional wisdom — it’s not his unique eye and visual sensibilities that place him squarely in the tall cotton described above.  Patrick, first and foremost, doubles as a master of all the things you don’t see.   Rather of things you feel.  Of tapping straight into the heart of his subject matter, which in turn, taps directly into the hearts of everyone meant to see it.   And to feel a certain way about it.  And there’s your difference-maker.  His thoughtfulness, understanding and ability to find, relate to and document a pitch perfect vibe, feeling and soul of any given assignment is the special sauce that makes him so uniquely adept at capturing those incomparably valuable intangibles that tell the story like no other. 

All of which, I am happy to report, has once again just proven true with his output a couple months back on behalf of Boston Scientific.  Yes, as we all knew would be the case, he’s did it again.

Yeah, okay.  I’m a fan.”

Rocky Botts

Creative Director

Ellis – Ling/LA