Patrick Jennings Brady (born April 27, 1967 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American artist.
A graduate of Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Brady earned his M.F.A. in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in 1991 and earned a certificate in Interior Design from Parsons School of Design in 2001. His first major group show at the Hill Rose Gallery in Saint Paul Minnesota in 1988 also included work by Salvador Dalàand Matt Franzen. In the early 1990s, after moving to New York City, Brady helped revitalize Tompkins Square ParkâÂÂs âÂÂArt Around the Parkâ One of his more controversial shows, in 1995 was chronicled in The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation as âÂÂPatrick Brady: Iconoclast Artist Finds a Voice at Leslie-Lohmanâ and also featured work by artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring. In 1996, BradyâÂÂs work was featured in the âÂÂDeep Insideâ show at the Musee dâÂÂart contemporain pornographique, in Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2000 Brady curated the âÂÂWhereâÂÂs ThereâÂÂs Smokeâ¦â exhibition of âÂÂCig Artâ at the South Texas Institute for the Arts.
Brady may be best known for organizing the Cig Art benefits. of the late 1990s which helped to revive cigar box art Derived from post-Impressionist âÂÂsynthetismâ and American folk art âÂÂtramp artâ traditions, Cig Art is the creation of painted, sculpted, and encrusted cigar boxes by visual artists.