Patryk Stasieczek is an artist, cultural administrator, and educator from Treaty 6 territory living and working on the shared, unceded territory of the Semiahmoo First Nation. Their practice frames the act of photography as an embodied interdisciplinary queering of histories, actions, and materials. Chromaphilic in their approach, they investigate affective labour practices tied to experimentation and the fabrication of images. Through the application of light, technology, and spatial intervention their work considers pathways to understand emergent conditions of photography and the physical relationships images convey as experiential knowledge.
As a non-regular faculty member within the Audain Faculty of Art and the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University, they serve as Secretary for the Emily Carr University Faculty Association. They were a sitting member on the Public Art Advisory Committee for the City of White Rock, and held a teaching artist in residence position at Concordia University in Montréal. During their tenure as director and co-curator of Gallery 295, an artist run exhibition project space in Vancouver, they worked in partnership towards the exhibition of traditional and expanded photographic practice. They have showcased their work in collaboration with the Pensacola Museum of Art (USA), Centre Clark (CA), Soil Gallery (USA), Capture Photography Festival (CA), Libby Leshgold Gallery (CA), City of Vancouver (CA), Magenta Foundation (CA), Access Gallery (CA), City of Richmond (CA), Peripheral Review (CA), McIntosh Gallery (CA), MassivArt (CA), and the FOFA Gallery (CA).