A native New Yorker who now lives half the year in Sarasota, Florida, Pat Kaufman is both painter and playwright. With a touch of cynicism, a smattering of socio-political views targeted with humor, Kaufman is a visionary expressing her ever more exhausted passion to live, think, grow and laugh against the dark puzzles of love, justice, and psychic, societal and actual imprisonments  

Kaufman has worked in many mediums and shown in Japan, Italy, Ireland and many places in the United States.

Since moving to Sarasota in 2005, Kaufman’s paintings have been exhibited at Manatee Art Center, Kaos Gallery Bradenton, Art Center of Sarasota, The Players Theatre Sarasota, The Harmony Gallery Sarasota, The Cornell Museum all Florida Fine Art Exhibit Delray Beach, The Selby Gallery Ringling School of the Arts, Sternberg Interiors Sarasota, The Mobley House Sarasota, Long Boat Key Art Center, and twice in the Diversity Art Billboard Exhibits in Marina Park.

In 2009 her paintings were exhibited in Tropical Gallery in LES NYC, and in Sarasota her works RED HOT, WISH YOU WERE HERE, and ARTISTS AT WORK were shown in the Art Center Sarasota. In 2010, THE FRINGE GALLERY, Sarasota and THE FRARY GALLERY 1419 Fifth Street, Sarasota Rosemary District.34236 (frary@FraryGallery.com) have displayed her work.

Along with all this splashing of paint, Kaufman’s continued devotion to typewriter/word processor has moved her to write a series of stage plays which have been performed in New York City as well as Virginia, California, Florida and Scotland. Subjects range from high finance to jail house weddings, to plastic surgery, to geriatrics, to space lust, to a vindication and celebration of Hamlet's virtuous mother Gertrude.

A prolific playwright, Pat Kaufman has earned Grants, Fellowships & Associations with: Pen & Brush, NYC, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, American & International PEN, Wings Playwrights NYC, Third Step Theatre Playwrights NYC, Ragdale Foundation, Illinois, Djerassi Foundation, California, First International Women Writers Conference, Paris, Dramatists Guild NYC, Video document Women's Committee Outreach program (In the Lincoln Center Archives), and–way back– the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Mill Valley, California, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Squaw Valley,Ca.

Her play ABOUT FACE concerns plastic surgery and age – which is funny unless you know someone who had a bad job. SNOW, an imagistic history of sexism, racism, and very High Heels shocked Dublin.

When her comedy HAMLET'S MOTHERS IN LOVE first played at West Beth Theatre she was dubbed "the female Tom Stoppard" and included in Best Scenes & Dialogues of that year.

In recent years, Kaufman's video SAVE HER O SAVE HER! and 27 pages of paintings were shown at the Manatee Art Center, in Bradenton FL. Her play WILD DAWN FEVER for THE REGENCY PLAYERS.

She has also married text and collage to create a series of graphic novels: O FLORIDA! (A snowbirds story in the political maelstrom of 2008)--also a video, and O LUDWIG! (A fable of a German King trapped on a Florida island.)

Pat is presently working on two new books--O SUITCASE and O BAPTISM...and a big portrait of a man in a chair.