Patricia Vernhes is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural leader with over two decades of experience in building transformative arts programs, exhibitions, and partnerships across music, film, and the visual arts.

Born in Poland, she moved to London as a teenager, where she studied contemporary music, worked as a solo artist, formed numerous bands, and collaborated on more than twenty film soundtracks.

Since relocating to Joshua Tree in 2012, her practice has evolved as an ongoing dialogue between environment and memory—expressed through sound, painting, sculpture, film, and found objects, often created and exhibited on the land she stewards. She is also an Ayurveda Yoga Therapist, Hatha Yoga and meditation teacher, and a sound therapy practitioner trained exclusively at The Integratron. Alongside her husband, music producer Nicolas Vernhes, she co-creates Summa, an experimental audio project exploring sound as a living environment.

As the Programming and Development Director at the Hi-Desert Cultural Center, she launched the Hi-Desert Film Institute and curated exhibitions and screenings devoted to the study and preservation of the art of filmmaking. Her work emphasizes the idea creating eco-systems—living environments that connect artists, audiences, and communities while balancing tradition with experimentation.

With a path that spans Warsaw, London, Paris, Los Angeles, New York and Joshua Tree, Vernhes blends artistic practice with institutional leadership to shape programs that are globally relevant and locally resonant.