Patricia Van Dalen (b. 1955, Maracaibo) is a Venezuelan-Dutch artist whose practice explores structures, systems, and fragmentation through painting, collage, assemblage, and large-scale interventions in natural and built environments. Her work gained significant recognition beginning in the late 1980s, consolidating throughout the 1990s and 2000s with milestones such as the urban-scale mural JardÃn LumÃnico (2004–2005) in Caracas, which exemplifies her synthesis of abstraction and public space. Van Dalen lives and works in Miami, where she continues to expand a visual grammar of restriction and adaptation, with color as the structural and unifying axis of her work.
