Pat DeCaro

Pat DeCaro (1951-2025) was an American artist based in Seattle, Washington. She lived in the Pacific Northwest after 1980, where her works are held in the collections of the Northwest Museum of Art, and the Pilchuck Glass School.

Life DeCaro was born in Philadelphia, where she attended the Fleischer Memorial Art School and received recognition in the Gimbels City-wide Young Artists Exhibit at the age of sixteen.

Career DeCaro showed her work regularly at the Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle from 1990 until the gallery closed in 2013. She has had solo exhibits of her paintings and drawings in Dusseldorf, Paris, and Milan, and has exhibited a co-created video in Istanbul. She has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and held a Hauberg Fellowship and the Northwest Museum of Art,

Awards 2012 John and Yvonne Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Artist Trust, Seattle 1993 Brandywine Visiting Artist Fellowship, Philadelphia, PA 1987 Washington State Arts Commission, Painting Commission 1983-84 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in Painting, Italy 1982/1994 MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, Peterborough, NH 1981 Ford Foundation Grant, University of Washington