Patricia Dahlman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied art at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and Yale University Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT. Dahlman has lived and worked as an artist in Seattle, San Francisco and the New York City area. She has received a New Jersey Printmaking Fellowship to Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, two Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships to attend Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts, a Puffin Foundation Grant Award and a Yaddo Artist Residency. Dahlman has exhibited her work all over the United States and has been included in exhibitions at George Adams Gallery in NYC, Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA, Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, NJ, and the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library in NYC. In 2010 Dahlman had a one person exhibition "The Art and Science of Happiness: Patricia Dahlman," as part of the Dana Women Artist Series, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.