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Patricia A. Carter began her art studies in 1979, while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Cornell University. She earned a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition, she was an adjunct professor in the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Arizona State University.

She studied painting at the Luminous Workshop in Buffalo and monotype printmaking at Buffalo State College. Since 1993, she has participated in several juried shows in Western New York, including shows at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Castellani Art Museum, Impact Women's Gallery, and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Museum. Patricia received an honorable mention award from Nancy Weekly and Charles Cary Rumsey the curator of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, for one of two works exhibited at the Impact Gallery, Covering/Uncovering national exhibition in 1995. In June 1997, she had a solo exhibition of her work sponsored by El Museo Francisco Oller Y Diego Rivera Gallery.

Her artwork was published by the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo following a solo exhibit there in November 1997. In February 2000, she had a solo exhibition of her work at the Phoenix Downtown Magazine in Phoenix, Arizona. Patricia teaches children in the Art with Artists program conducted by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Education Department. She completed an Artist-in-Residence at the Edna Manley College of Visual Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, in 1998.

She has been a member of the Board of Directors of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Her work is included in the Burchfield-Penney Art Center's Museum Collection and various private art collections in the United States and Canada.