About
Patty Gone is a writer, art critic, and artist whose work attends to the emotional and aesthetic contradictions of American popular culture. Moving between criticism, performance, and hybrid forms of writing, her practice approaches kitsch, sentimentality, and mass media as sites where longing, fantasy, and politics collide. She is especially interested in how gender, class, and myth circulate through the everyday, how familiar cultural forms hold both damage and genuine feeling at once.

Her writing has appeared in The Believer, Hyperallergic, Art Papers, and jubilat, and she is the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019). As an artist and performer, Gone has presented work at the Queens Museum, REDCAT, LACE, Smack Mellon, Human Resources, The Poetry Project, Wendy’s Subway, and Porn Film Festival Berlin, as well as in bars, DIY venues, and domestic spaces. Her work often combines text, video, performance, and installation, drawing on genres such as the sitcom, the romance novel, and children’s fantasy to think seriously about sincerity, attachment, and transformation.

Gone is currently completing a PhD in Performance Studies at UCLA, where her research focuses on transgender aesthetics, Surrealism, affect, adaptation, and queer history. She lives in Los Angeles.

PressBemis Center
Variable West
The Believer
Brooklyn Review
NYC Trans Oral History Project
The Stranger
Seattle Weekly