Kelda Van Patten is a visual artist and art educator residing in Portland, Oregon. Kelda’s photographs create disorienting pictorial spaces that merge photography with the cut-out, collage, and painting. Kelda is a recipient of the Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Make Grant (2021), in the top 200 for Photolucida’s critical mass, and she has held residencies at NES (Iceland) and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology (Oregon). She has completed several artist residencies, finishing the Jentel Artist's Residency earlier in 2023 and with plans to attend the Verdancy Project artist's residency in September 2023 and the Kala Artist Residency in Berkely, CA in October 2023. Kelda has curatorial experience as well, curating at Well Well Projects in 2023 (exhibtion titled Smart Objects, Flattened Images). Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including Blue Sky Gallery, Carnation Contemporary, and Well Well Projects (Portland, Oregon), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), the Cuernavaca Museum of Art (Mexico), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Filter Photo and the FRESH photography exhibition at Klompching Gallery (New York). Kelda’s work has been featured in several online and print publications including Fraction Magazine, the.waiting.room.gallery, In the In-Between, and Platform Gallery, and Berm Magazine. She holds an MFA in Craft and Material Studies from Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art, an MAT in art education from Lewis and Clark College, and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Kelda teaches visual art at da Vinci Arts Middle School and Portland State University.