Duane Paul / Multidisciplinary Artist
Artist CV (Edited)
Education: Parson School of Design
www.duanepaul.com - email: dupaulart47@gmail.com
Exhibit History
July 13 – September 2023
Visual Artists Exhibition: The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) 2023 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Master Artist Project (IMAP) .
DCA’s Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG)
located at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard in Barnsdall Park
from July 13 to September 16, 2023
July – August 2023
Decoding Americana's Queer Sensibilities
For press inquiries, please contact:
Pernille Kjeldsen
2022/2023 Grant Recipient /(COLA-IMAP)
City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project
Getty Villa Museum / Adornment ⏐ Artifact
Transformative Arts
410 S Spring St, Los Angeles
Exhibition dates: October 15, 2022 - March 5, 2023
September 2022
The Nan Rae Gallery and Woodbury University
process - practice - evolution
Group Exhibition / Sculpture & Paintings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvBzC7EUSc
April 2022
Korean Cultural Center/ Los Angeles
The Phoenix Project: Continuing the Dialog form 1992
Group Exhibition / Sculpture
July 2021
Art Share LA
Defiance of Juncture / Sculpture
April 2021
May J. Paul Getty Museum
Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A. exhibition – Photography
https://app.frame.io/presentations/5e22545b-b9bb-470f-bd63-586ecb39bfc3
2021 - 2022
Cultural Trailblazers Grant/Award 2021/ Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs *DCA* https://culturela.org/programs-and-initiatives/cultural-trailblazers-2020-2021/
August – October 2020
Cal State LA’s Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery
Mojo Rising Group Exhibit
VIMEO - curator's tour with jill moniz
https://vimeo.com/452372061?fbclid=IwAR1o5TB_ek6nnW5bW9YF5xc9XWYiGLcRiRVhxoduMW_VGnHJwWZRJTWVRns
July – August 2020
LAUNCH LA Gallery
Connected Abstractly – Duane Paul, Annie Compean, Nano Rubio
(FACEBOOK LIVE) https://www.facebook.com/LaunchLA
June – July 2020
Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC
Group Show: 2020 Chrysalistasis
May – June 2020
Durden and Ray Gallery
WE ARE HERE / HERE WE ARE - PUBLIC SCULPTURE INSTALLATION
http://www.durdenandray.com/the-exhibition-project
We Are Here / Here We Are
https://www.laweekly.com/more-than-a-walkthrough-galleries-get-creative-in-their-digital-and-analog-adaptations/?fbclid=IwAR2Fun2jhdLUxPej_hpskvMJ33qRKHkNTVY0qgZFXO8zcO-gfCnGkmeesDA
https://www.duanepaul.com/#2020-we-are-here-here-we-are
Sept - Feb 2020
California African American Museum
LA Black Smith - Group Show CAAM
2019 - Jan - March
Quotidian Project Space
Serpentine Fire Exhibit - Group Show - Sculpture
2018 - Nov - Jan
Walter Maciel Gallery
Pretty Big Things - Group Show - Sculpture/Installation
2018 April – June
Exent / Quotidian Project Space
Group Show - Sculpture
2018 January LAUNCH Gallery + CAAM California African American Museum
Eyes Forward' - LA Art Show / Sculpture
2017 Oct - November
South Bay Contemporary Gallery SoLA
Diasporagasm - Group Show - Sculpture/Installation
https://artandcakela.com/2017/10/23/diasporagasm-at-sbc-sola-gallery/
2017 Aug - Sept
Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University
2 Person Show
One Sculptor & One Painter
2017 Feb - March
Eastside International (ESXLA)
Echo Location - Group Show - Sculpture Installation
https://artandcakela.com/2017/03/10/echo-location-at-eastside-international/
2016 June - July
We Choose Art Curatorial
Group Show: Rainbow Shift - Sculpture Installation
2016 February - April
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall Art Park Foundation (DCA)
Skin: Photographic Installation
2016 February
The Grammy Foundation & Toyota Green Initiative
Sculpture Installation / Materials Sustainable / Abstract Arrangements
2015 Oct - Sept
Boston Court Performing Arts Center
Public Work: Sculpture Installation "Fractured Heart -Re-imagined"
2015 Pasadena MiniGrant recipient
http://www.artnightpasadena.org/
Aug 2015 - April 2016
California African American Museum (CAAM)
Group Show: Hard Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond
http://www.caamuseum.org/web_pages/future_exhibitions_hard_edged.htm
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-california-african-american-museum-
20151209column.html
2015 July – August
Lyons Wier Gallery, NYC
Group Show: Unlimited Potential
http://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/decoding-the-abstract-unlimited-potential-at-lyons-wier-gallery/
2015 June -Jan 2016
(DCA) Department of Cultural Affairs of Los Angeles - Public Art Division
& LAX World Airports (Tom Bradley International Terminal)
Commission: Sculpture Installation -
Three Forms to Incite Rain
2015 June
We Choose Art Curatorial:
Group Show: Rainbow Shift
Sculpture Installation
2014 October
Coagula Curatorial
Group Show Painting and Sculpture
2014 June
CAAM (CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM): Group Show
Recent Acquisitions to The Permanent Collection -Curatorial Selections
2014 May
Pens Press Gallery/ Culver City Bitches Rule - Group Show
Installation/Digital Photographs
2014/2017:
Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) & LAX
Los Angeles World Airports Exhibitions / Tom Bradley International Terminal
Installation / Sculpture - Three Forms to Incite Rain
2013 December Miami Basel
MUSE Gallery - Group Show - Works on Paper
http://fusionmia.com/portfolio_page/duane-paul/
2013 September
Reginald Ingraham Gallery - Solo Show
Speaking Tongues: The Material of Communication
ARTILLERY MAGAZINE REVIEW: http://artillerymag.com/duane-paul/
2013 June
Subliminal projects Gallery: Group Show
Good Intentions: Re-Imagining Rockwell's Boy Scouts - Sculpture/Installation
2013 January
George Billis Gallery LA - Group Show
Colorful Antics Sculpture//Installation
2012/2013 Sept
Watts Towers Art Center (DCA/lA)
Group show
Baila con Duende - Sculpture/installation
2012 June - Jan (2013):
CAAM (CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM)
SHARED THREADS Sculpture // installation
2012 August - Sept
Avenue 50 Studio Gallery - Group show
Consortium -Sculpture// installation
2012 June - July
West Hollywood Library / one city one pride arts festival
Black is black aint - Sculpture // installation
2012 FEB - APRIL
The Advocate & Gochis Galleries
Group Show: I See you, I'm here
Sculpture // Drawings
2011 June – Jan 2012
Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum
Folk Art Everywhere - Sculpture
2011 August - Sept
Fremont Gallery Group Show
The Unusual Suspects - Sculpture & Painting
2011 April – June
William Grant Still Art Center Group Show-
Images: Iconic to Insurgent & Divine to Decadent Sculpture / installation
(City of Los Angeles Certificate of Recognition awarded)
2011 February – March
The Advocate & Gochis Galleries
Group Show- Consciousness: Ancestral! Abstract! Audacious!
Sculpture/ Installation/ Drawings
2011 February ArtSlant
Showcase Winner- Los Angeles - Sculpture
2011 January - May
Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum
Folk Art Everywhere -Sculpture
2010 August - October
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall Park Group Show-
The Los Angeles Biennial Juried Exhibition -Painting
2010 November
ArtSlant Showcase Winner - Los Angeles -Painting
2010 June - July
ATB Soulful Salon Gallery Group Show
Los Angeles Sculpture & Drawings
2009 November
ArtSlant Showcase Winner- Los Angeles -Sculpture
2007 September
SCOPE ART FAIR
BOREAS Gallery
Showcase MIAMI- works on paper
2007 August
626 Gallery Group Show
Masked Unmasked Los Angeles - Drawing/Water Color Series
2007 July
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery/Barnsdall Park
Group Show - Sculpture
2006 September
Art Seen (Los Angeles) Group Show
Los Angeles Digital Photographs
2005 September
Boreas Gallery (2 PERSON SHOW)-(NYC)
Fluid Incursions – Paintings
2004 June
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Gallery
SINGULAR OBSESSION - Breakthrough as Process & Art: Creative Projects of Persistent Preoccupation - SCULPTURE
2004 October
AFF Contemporary Art Fair (NYC)
Sculpture
2004 Morsel Gallery Williamsburg Brooklyn - (NYC)
Group Show - Inaugural Ball - Sculpture
2004 February Boreas Gallery (NYC)
SOLO SHOW
Contained (Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings)
Concept Books & Ready-Made Objects
TITLE: THE COVID-MASK PROJECT AWO – SCULPTURAL FACE COVER / 2020
Hand crafted sculptural Fabric Face Mask DOUBLE Layered, DURABLE, Reusable, Protective, fabric Mask
https://www.duanepaul.com/#awo-the-covid-19-mask
https://www.duanepaul.com/#awo-2-the-covid-19-mask
https://www.duanepaul.com/#face-mask-covid-awo-mask-project
TITLE: WIND AND RAIN ARRANGEMENTS / 2018
https://www.blurb.com/b/8900831-wind-and-rain-arrangements
The photographic essays in this book are beautiful, haunting, raw and provocative photographic imagery challenges notions of dimensionality and meaning… highly narrative sculptural compositions, constructing objects and images that evoke sky scrapers, reliquaries as well as ghost towns and a sense of some kind of aftermath.
Title: Colored and Blue / 1999-2000 Edition Size 200
Plexi-Glass Porcelain Handles, WOOD, and SCREWS, Color prints 44 pages
DESIGNED TO be interactive PAGES/random sizes and orientation
Depicting mater-a-fact Internet sex chat room conversations WITH digitally manipulated photographic images - ideas around the body as commodity in gay culture - WORD PLAY ASSOCIATIONS
PRINTED MATTER: BOOKSTORE/GALLERY 1994-96
Title: Familiar Surroundings - Edition Size 100
Corrugated Cardboard bound with steel rings - 60 pages Color Xerox and Translucent Velum Marbleized paper overlays - Word associations with detailed images from paintings depicting male to male couplings domestic settings, partnered love and domestic surrounding. Playing with sense memory, subverting words and imagery.
Collections - Edited
- Philadelphia Museum of Art - https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/339384.html
- MUDE, LISBON (Collection)
- Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture (Collection) - Willowbrook Library
- NATIONAL GALLERY of VICTORIA, Australia (Collection)
- MAAS Sidney (Collection) https://collection.maas.museum/object/551670
- Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs - Collection
- CAAM (CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM) (Collection)
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York) (Collection)
- Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (Collection)
- New Museum New York - (Collection)
- PRINTED MATTER BOOK STORE/GALLERY (Collection
Publications (Edited)
- Art & Cake
https://artandcakela.com/2017/10/23/diasporagasm-at-sbc-sola-gallery/
https://artandcakela.com/2017/03/10/echo-location-at-eastside-international/
- i-D Magazine
https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/go-bananas-for-bernhard-willhelms-genderless-collection
- A Magazine
http://www.amagazinecuratedby.com/news/bernhard-willhelm-2-cute-2-be-str8/
- Kaltblut
- Fucking Young
http://fuckingyoung.es/bernhard-willhelm-springsummer-2016-lookbook/
http://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2016-ready-to-wear/bernhard-willhelmArtillery
Art Magazine – 2013 https://artillerymag.com/duane-paul
Art Voices - Fall 2013
LA Weekly - 2013
LA I'm Yours - 2013
Pacific Stacks Publishing: Good Intentions Catalog - 2013
Flaunt Magazine - Context Issue 2013
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA)
- African American Heritage Cultural Guide 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2012,2013, 2014
- LGBT Heritage Month Cultural Guide 2014, 2015, 2016,2017,2018
ARTIST PANNEL/ ARTIST WORKSHOPS / ARTIST TALKS
- CAAM – BLACK CONTEMPORARY ARTIST AND CHARLES WHITE
- CAFAM (CRAFT AND FOLK ART MUSEUM) – BETTY SAAR / ARTIST INFLUENCE AND LEGACY 2017
- Watts Towers Art Center January 2013
- California African American Museum (CAAM) (Los Angeles) June 2012
- West Hollywood Library (Los Angeles) June 2012
- Avenue 50 Studio Gallery (Los Angeles) - 2012
- William Grant Still Art Center (Los Angeles) - 2011
- The Advocate & Gochis Gallery (Los Angeles) 2010/2011
- The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture(New York) - 1999
- Leslie Lohman Museum Of Gay And Lesbian Art (New York) 1994, 1997, 1999