Andrew James Paterson
Never Enough Night

Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, community and capitalism in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film and music. Now a senior artist, Paterson has contributed to artist-run discourse for four plus decades - serving on the boards of Trinity Square Video, A Space, and YYZ Artists’ Outlet. He has curated media-arts and other programmes for these organizations as well as Cinematheque Ontario, Mercer Union, Images Festival, Pleasure Dome, and Available Light in Ottawa. He has edited and co-edited books for YYZ’s publishing programme; and contributed to anthologies published by Gallery TPW and to periodicals such as FILE, IMPULSE, FUSE, and Borderlines. Between 2011 and 2017 he worked as coordinator for the8fest small-gauge film festival. His media works have shown locally, nationally, and internationally over four decades - in Seoul, Bangalore, Montreal, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Paris, New York City, and many other centres. Paterson’s artist’s book Collection Correction was published in 2016 by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in 2018. In 2019, Paterson was awarded a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts. In 2024, his life and work were the subject of a survey exhibition Never Enough Night at the plumb in Toronto.