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"PAUL HUNTER
CURRICULUM VITAE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Recent Paintings: Landscapes & Abstractions, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, FL
Spirit of Ecstasy, Hammer Rolls-Royce, Cologne, Germany
Paul Hunter’s Works, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Hunter, Wells Laing Gallery, Binghamton, NY
On the edge, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
The 17th International Middle East Furniture and Interior Design Exhibition, Dubai, UAE
Metal Leaf Paintings, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allegories, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
2006 Paul Hunter Paintings, Hammer Rolls-Royce, Cologne, Germany
One, Také Dance Company, Alvin Ailey Theater, NY
Metal Leaf Paintings, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paintings by Paul Hunter, 215 W 125th Street, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Life Paintings, Mobile Building, 150 E 42nd Street, New York, NY
2005 Variations on a Theme, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
Nocturnes Series, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gotik, Maternushaus, XX. World Youth Day, Cologne, Germany
Selected Paintings, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paysages, Lacroix Gallery, Quebec, QC
Landscapes, Contor Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
Paul Hunter, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Recent Paintings, Kapitelsaal der Abtei Brauweiler, Pulheim-Brauweiler, Germany
Recent Work, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Recent Work, Contor Galleries, Toronto, Ontario
Luminous Landscapes, Lindenthal Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2003 New Paintings, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL

Imaginary Landscapes, A & C Fine ART, East Greenwich, RI
Paysages, Lacroix Gallery, Quebec, QC
Landschaften auf Goldblatt, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Landscape Noir, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Liquid Landscapes, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, NY
Landscape Noir, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 Liquid Landscape, Davis & Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Liquid Landscapes, The Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery, Dallas, TX
Lumious Landscapes, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Summit of the Americas, Delegate’s Conference Room, Quebec, QC
2000 Estates, Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI
Luminous Landscape, Central Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Luminous Landscape, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, FL
1999 Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, The Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Landscapes on Gold, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, FL
1996 Artifice #2, Installation in Riverside Park, New York, NY
Artifice #3, Installation Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY
1994 Paintings, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL
1992 Reflected Landscapes, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Objets fugitifs, Rimouski Museum, Rimouski, QC
1990 Paul Hunter, Oeuvres en vue, Quebec Museum, QC
Phenomena, Quebec Delegation, Paris
The End of Nature Series, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Recent Work, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1987 White Noise, Installation at The Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Work, Galerie Graff, Montreal, QC
Petrefacta, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Open Studio, The Clocktower, New York, NY
1985 Looking into Interior Worlds, Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Chamber Music, Artists Space, New York, NY
1981 Chants-contre-Champs, Galerie Motivation V, Montreal, QC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008 20 ans de peinture, de photos, de dessins, Galerie Trois Points, Montreal, Qc
2007 Merging Nature, The Americas Collection in Winwood District, Art Basel-Miami, FL
Summer Group Show, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY


Absolute Vision 12, Chicago Art Dealers Association, Chicago, IL
3rd Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, New York, NY
2006 Kreuze für die Kreuzeskirche, Essen-Altstadt, Germany
Works on Paper, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2nd Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
2005 1st Annual Harlem Open Artist Studio Tour, New York, NY
2004 Landscape Abstracts, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
Chicago Art Fair, 2004, Chicago, IL
2003 Small Treasures, A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI
All That Glitters, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Paul Hunter-Max Siebel, Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Landscapes of the Americas, Pan American Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Show, Lacroix Gallery, Québec,QC
Chicago Art Fair, 2003, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Works on Paper, Samson Fine Arts, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Fall 2002, Samson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Curated Show, Sugar Hill Art Center, New York, NY
Chicago Art Fair 2002, Chicago, IL
Absolute Vision 7, Chicago Art Dealers Association, Chicago, IL
Images of Water, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Group Show, Davis & Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Artscapes 2002, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Group Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2001 Departure: American Contemporary Landscape, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Indiana University Northwest, Savannah, IN
American Landscape, Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI
The spirit of the Americas, The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, FL
Summertime Collective Exhibition, Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI
Gallery Group Show, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago IL
Absolute Vision 6, Chicago Art Dealers Association, Chicago, IL
2000 The Holiday Patrons' Show, Premier Etage Galleries, Newport, RI
1999 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ travel to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
1997 Zoom sur les miniatures, Civilization Museum, Quebec, QC
1996 Group Show, The Americas Collection, Coral Gabels, FL
1995 Oeuvres ouvertes, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, QC
Group Show, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1994 Le silence des armes, Estampes Plus Gallery, Quebec, QC
The Box: From Duchamp to Horn, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
1993 The Art Show, Art Dealers Association of America, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Imaginaire d'architecture, Maison Hamel-Bruneau, Ste-Foy, QC
Group Show, Sherry French Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Paintings & Sculptures, Ceasarea Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992 The Art Show, Art Dealers Association of America,
Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Encaustics, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
La décennie de la métamorphose, 1982-1992, Quebec Museum, Quebec, QC
1991 The Art Show, Art Dealers Association of America, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Articulation, Centre d'exposition, St-Hyacinthe, QC
Un archipel de désirs: les artistes québécois et la scène internationale, Quebec Museum, Quebec, QC
Working With Wax, Ten Contemporary Artists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Biennial, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithfull, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Sculpture 90, Galerie Daniel, Montreal, QC
Memory & Artifact, Springs Art Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Season's Best, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1989 From the Collection of K. Caraccio, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, NJ
Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, IL
A l'ombre du génie, AGACM, Montreal, QC
Dieux et diables...Les artistes, CIRCA Gallery, Montreal, QC
The Professor's Choice, Galerie Daniel, Montreal, QC
Landscape, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Miniature Environments, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Visions and Visionaries: Contemporary Landscape, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1988 163rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Les temps chauds, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, traveled to France, Belgium and Canada
SOHA, Open Gallery and Studio Tour, New York, NY
Drawn From Life: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape,


Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1987 Still Life, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, traveled to Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
Summer Group Show, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Profil, Centre Culturel de la Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal, QC
1986 Light: Perception-Projection, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, QC
Small Scale Sculpture; Anchorage and New York, Visual Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AL
Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables, A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Art Expo Tokyo '86, Tokyo, Japan
The Art of Building, City Gallery, New York, NY
Small Works, 80 Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY
1985 National and International Studio Artists, The Clocktower, New York, NY
Collaboration, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
2 1/2 D; A Sculptural Confrontation, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
Art Expo Tokyo '85, Tokyo, Japan
1984 Fourth Holiday Invitational Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture, H. F. Manes Gallery, New York, NY
Technics, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, traveled to Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Summer Show, Webb & Parsons Gallery, New Cannan, CT
Group Exhibition, 301 East Houston Gallery, New York, NY
Selection 24, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1983 A Hundred Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
A. More Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
The Chair Show, Brooklyn Academy of Creative Arts, Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION:

M.F.A., Concordia University, Montreal, QC
B.A., Visual Arts, Laval University, Quebec, QC
Instructor, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY

AWARDS:

Canada Council Grant, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991
Quebec Government Artists Fellowship, 1984, 1988, 1991
Quebec Government Paris Travel Grant, 1990
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 1987
Artists Space Exhibition Award, 1987
National Studio Program, PS 1,The Institute for Art & Urban Resources, 1985, 1986

COMMISSIONS:

1998 McKinsey & Company, Miami, FL
1992 Centre hôspitalier de l'archipel, Madeleine Islands, QC
1988 St. Francis Hospital, Quebec, QC

CATALOGS:

2007 Painting, Paul Hunter, Eurosa Corporation, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2004 All That Glitters, Karen Shaw, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
1991 Objets fugitifs, Marcel St-Pierre, Rimouski Museum, Rismouski, QC
Articulation, Marcel St-Pierre, Expression, St-Hyacinthe, QC
1990 Oeuvres en vue, Louise Déry, Quebec Museum, Quebec, QC
1989 Miniature Environments, Josephine Gear, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York, NY
1988 Les Temps Chauds, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC
1987 Still Life, John Post Lee, Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, WI
1986 Lumieres, Perception-projection, CIAC, Montreal, QC
1985 Studio Artists, P.S. 1, The Institute for Urban Resources, New York, NY
1984 Technics: Art and Machines, Marina La Palma, Alternative Museum, New York, NY

REVIEWS:

2007 Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, November 23
2006 Kabinett Szene, December
2005 Michel Bois, Le Soleil, October 26
Jürgen Kisters, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, August 23
Jürgen Kisters, Journal der Deutsch-Kanadischen Gesellschaft, March
2004 Andrea Horstmann-Osterloh, Journal der Deutsch-Kanadischen Gesellschaft, April
Ulla Jürgensonn, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, September 4/5
Jürgen Kisters, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, March 18


Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, January 4
2003 Alan G. Artner, Chicago Tribune, November 21
Erica Collins, Timeout, Rhode Island, November 21
Michel Bois, Le soleil , Quebec, April 3
Michel Bois, Le soleil, Quebec, September 20
2000 Terrence Synnott, The Newport Daily News (RI) , November 29
Sylvia Smith, Newport News This Week, November 30
1993 Megan Mueller, Art News, January
1990 Denise Martel, Journal de Québec, April 15
Régis Tremblay, Le Soleil, Québec, April 13
Maurice Tourigny, Vie des Arts, Montreal, No. 137
Catherine Bédard, Parachute, Montreal, No. 60
John K. Grande, Artforum, November
1989 John Russell, The New York Times, August 11
Gerrit Henry, Art in America, December
1988 Walter Thompson, Art in America, April
Allan Pringle, Etc Montreal, Spring
Marie-Sylvie Hébert, Etc Montreal, Winter
1987 Phillip Evans-Clark, Art Press, Paris, July-August
Joanna Kotkowska & Isabelle Poissant, Cahiers, No. 3, Montreal, Autumn
1986 Phillip Evans-Clark, The New York Times, Sunday, August 17
Jocelyne Lepage, La Presse, Montreal, Saturday, September 13

COLLECTIONS:

The Art Museum of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, QC
Quebec Museum, Quebec, QC
Alston & Bird LLP (Lobby & Conference Room), New York, NY
Arthur Anderson & Company, New York, NY
Bessemer Trust Co., Los Angeles, CA
The Bibb Company, New York, NY
Coca-Cola Company (Board Room), Atlanta, GA
Gibraltar Bank (Board Room), Coral Gables, FL
Lighting Associates Inc., New York, NY
Marsh & McClennan, Boston, MA
McKinsey & Company (Lobby), Miami, FL
Nationsbank (Board Room), Miami, FL
The Promise Foundation, New York, NY
Refco Group, Ltd., Chicago, IL
Reliance National, New York, NY
Steinberg Management(Board Room and Entrance), New York, NY
Kozyar, Tropin, Throckmorton (Lobby), Coral Gables, FL
Loto Quebec, Quebec, Qc


Paul Hunter is internationally renowned for his uniquely luminous landscape paintings on gold and metal leaf. Paul Hunter has adapted a centuries-old technique to give expression to his Modernist vision. His abstract minimalist landscapes combine the exceptional glow and reflective qualities of the flat metals, with the emotional depth of gestural painting.

Paul Hunter’s work is in private, corporate and museum collections. The artist has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the USA, Canada, France, German, Japan, and United Arab Emirates, China and in museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Alternative Museum, the Drawing Center, P.S.1, the Montclair Art Museum, the Museum of Princeton University, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the Indiana University Museum, the Brauweiler Abbey, Germany, Hammer Rolls-Royce, Cologne Germany, the Quebec Delegation in Paris, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Quebec Museum.

Paul Hunter has received awards from Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artists Space, National Studio Program: PS 1, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, Canada Council and Quebec Arts Fellowship.

He lives in New York City.
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PAUL HUNTER: LANDSCAPE NOIR SERIES, May 3 – June 21, 2002

Artist’s Statement


“Imaginary landscapes have been a subject of my work for over a decade. My new paintings combine 23-karat gold leaf with bronze, copper, aluminum and white gold leaf. Large areas of metal leaf are oxidized and patinated to create gestural abstract landscapes.

I frequently combine different types of gold and metal leaf in a single painting to exploit their different colors and reflective qualities, combining for example, a 23 karat gold sky with bronze leaf water. The bronze is then oxidized with chemicals and acids creating an active surface.

These techniques were developed by the Old Masters. An oil gold size that acts as an adhesive is painted over the gesso and allowed to semi-dry. Then each small square of metal leaf is individually applied by hand over the entire surface of the canvas. Acid is freely brushed onto the bronze leafed areas. Careful timing is required to control the etching of the acid into the metal surface. Once the acids have been rinsed, I resume painting, controlling the reflective surfaces by the application of opaque and transparent alkyd paints. These painstaking preparations assure that the final work will not deteriorate.

I paint the landscape directly on the metal or on the gold surface. In some works the use of transparent pigments allows the gold to shine through the paint and create an effect of depth. In others, opaque paints that absorb all of the light create a contrast to the exceptional glow of the gold and the aged metal surfaces.

At the horizon line, sky and water, light and shadow, meet on earth. The placement of the horizon also determines the viewer’s position before the scene. By moving in front of the painting and shifting the viewing angle, the spectator can alter the light and the shadow that fall onto the landscape and thereby witness the passage of time through light. Similarly, the changing light in the course of a day dramatically alters the luminosity of the painting.

Luminosity is the underlying theme in all of my work.

My most recent series of paintings, “Landscape Noir”, is a distillation of my landscape idea. This series was created after the September 11th events. The image is reduced to its essentials: matte black acrylic over high gloss gold leaf, to create a dramatic contrast against the horizon.

Over the past twenty years I have exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, the Alternative Museum, the Drawing Center, P.S. 1, the Montclair Art Museum, the Art Museum of Princeton University, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Quebec Museum and the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in addition to many other galleries. I have received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Artists Space, the Canada Council and the Quebec Arts Fellowship.”

--Paul Hunter, April 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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