PAUL BRANCA
Born 1974 in Bronx, NY Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2010 MFA in Painting, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2009 Recipient of Bard Graduate Fellowships, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2006 Studio Residency, School of Visual Arts, New York
2001 BFA in Painting and Bachelors of Arts, Art History, Queens College, CUNY, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Inventory Observed, MARS, Milan, Italy Social Sausage, Localedue, FarneSpazio, Bologna, Italy
2013 Satin Island, Scaramouche, New York L’origine de l’espace privée &&&, Galeria Sabot, Cluj, Romania
2011 Waitings, Scaramouche, New York
2010 Couch Crash, Golden Parachutes, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Double Life, curated by Kristen Chappa, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Group Show, organized by Paola Gallio, Marsèlleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan, Italy
Times Square Show, curated by Marlous Born, Times, Berlin, Germany Grand Tour Low Cost, curated by Paola Gallio, Spazio Morris, Milano, Italy Persistent Forms: Paul Branca, Marc Breslin, Alessandro Roma, Michael Stuart, Monteriggioni, Italy
2010 Half a Self, A Cave-Dweller, curated by David Everitt Howe, The Former Convent at St. Cecilia's Parish, Brooklyn, NY A Knot for Ariadne, curated by Marc LeBlanc, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin, Germany Carry-On, project by David Horvitz, Galerie West, The Hague, Holland
2009 For You, curated by Grayson Cox, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Gallery, Columbia University, New York SASE, selected by David Horvitz, Printed Matter, New York For a Short Time Only at a Space Near You, curated by ASDF, various locations The Wikipedia Reader, edition for the Art Book Fair, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY The Sum and Its Parts, curated by Jenny Borland, temporary space, Brooklyn, NY Bard Masters of Fine Arts T Exhibition, UBS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY PROJECTS AND PERFORMANCES 2013
CURATED SHOWS 2013
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2013 "Daily Serving, The Art World's Food Pyramid", by Clara Halpern, Modern Painters: October. "So Old It’s New: Painting in the Information Age", by David Everitt Howe, Art Papers: July/August "Emergency Index 2012", Ugly Duckling Press "Double Life", Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY (catalog) "Brand New: Paul Branca", by Wendy Vogel, Flash Art International, Jan-Feb issue.
2012 "Visual Arts as Intrepretive Philology", by Anna Keszeg, Art Guide East http://artguideeast.org/2012/12/14/visual-art-as-interpretive-philology/
2010 "Paul Branca, Couch Crash", Golden Parachutes, Berlin, PDF catalog, texts by Jenny Borland, Tim Pierson, and Jess Wilcox "Interview with Paul Branca,” by David Horvitz “Critic's Pick”, by Eva Scharrer, Artforum.com http://artforum.com/picks/id=26969&view=print
2009 “Art Gets Gifted,” by Hannah Kligman, Columbia Spectator
2007 Pilot 3, selected by Eva Scharrer, Pilot London http://www.pilotlondon.org/artists/details.php?id=221&year=2007
2001 “Urban Distruptions,” by Tess Taylor, Metropolis Magazine |