Patrick Renner (b. 1981) is a fourth-generation Houstonian. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2004, and his MFA from the New York State College of Art at Alfred University in 2006. His work ranges from intimate sculpture to environmental installations to large-scale outdoor public sculpture, often utilizing found objects, and involving collaboration—with other artists or the public at large—when possible. Renner taught high school art for a decade before pursuing art full-time. As a Houston-based artist, he loves the simultaneously home-spun and metropolitan dichotomy of his native city’s art scene.