In 2008, his work Design and the Elastic Mind was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).[4] In 2010, Patton won the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[5][6] In 2010-2011, he was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[7][8]
In 2011, Patton created a reinterpretation of the "T" logo for The New York Times as part of an initiative by The New York Times Style Magazine.[9][10] His work was shown as part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival in 2012, and he has presented new sound work as part of the exhibition/sound series, "Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow," at Skidmore College's Tang Teaching Museum.[1] In 2015, he exhibited a series of untitled works at the Callicoon Fine Arts Gallery in New York.[11]
Patton took part in a series of multidisciplinary performances as part of the performance collective founded by Terry Adkins, Lone Wolf Recital Corps, first with Blanche Bruce in 2013[12] then with Charles Gaines and Clifford Owens at MoMA in 2017.[1][13] In 2017, he staged his work Amun (The Unseen Legends) at MoMA, with him improvising sound to his 2010 abstract film Theory of Colors.[12]
In 2019, Patton was selected for the Storm King residency program at the Storm King Art Center,[14] and he was a 2020 ESS Archive Artist in Residence at the Experimental Sound Studio.[15] In 2020, he was awarded a $100,000 grant from Creative Capital for his project Tel.[3][16]