​Pat Pendleton is from Tonawanda, New York. She received a BA in Studio Art from SUNY Oswego and an MA in Counseling Psychology and Art Therapy from Naropa University in Colorado. A multidisciplinary artist who has explored ceramics, textiles, photography, and collage, she has primarily pursued painting for forty years. She has shown work in San Francisco, New York, and Denver while residing in those places prior to returning to Western New York. Her work has been exhibited in numerous regional venues, including a survey of one hundred pieces in a 2012 solo show, Curious Evidence, at the former Artspace Buffalo Gallery. Most recently, twenty paintings were featured in a 2024 exhibition, Three Degrees of Abstraction, at the Carnegie Art Center. A former mental health clinician and art therapist, she is also a published author. Her book, The Shape of Becoming: Woman in the Mirror—a memoir in seven stories was released in 2023 and she hosts a Substack newsletter called This. Pat currently maintains a studio in Angola, New York.