present global art gallery paul aho resume

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BORN

1954 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

EDUCATION

1979 MFA, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
1977 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
1974 Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida

HONORS AND AWARDS

2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship,
Metro-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council
1995 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship,
Metro-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council
1993 Juror’s Merit Award, New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition, Laguna
Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas; Kerry Brougher, juror 1987 Ubertalli Memorial
Award for Artistic Achievement, Palm Beach County Cultural Council
1984 Award of Merit, Boston Printmakers 36th National Exhibition, Brockton
Art Museum, Brockton, MA; Clifford Ackley, juror
1980 Award of Merit, 29th Annual All-Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum
of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
1978 Purchase Award, National Exhibition of Drawings and Prints, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio; Nancy Graves, juror
Purchase Award, Southeastern Graphics Annual, New Orleans Contemporary
Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Philip Hulitzer Merit Award, 39th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005 Push 2 Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
2004 Kinzelman Art Consultants, Houston, Texas
The Impossibility of..., Mark Shulgasser Photo Gallery, West Palm Beach,
Florida
Studio E Gallery, Abacoa, Florida
2001 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
1998 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
1997 West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Cultural Resource Center, Stephen P. Clark Center, Miami, Florida
1996 West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Freites-Revilla Gallery, Gallery Center, Boca Raton, Florida
1995 Cress Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Art Trends-Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention Center, Hong Kong
1993   Caesarea Gallery, Gallery Center, Boca Raton, Florida
1992 A Change of Skin, Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray Beach,
Florida
Sinister/Decorative, Anne Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Florida
Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1991 Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1989 Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1988 Peter Drew Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
The Governor’s Club of the Palm Beaches, West Palm Beach, Florida
1986 Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida
1983 Image and Metaphor, J. Radcliffe Ewing Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1980 Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth, Florida

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Legacy, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa, three-person exhibition,
curated by Michael Betancourt
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Recipients, Fort Lauderdale
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Art Futures, Gallery Center, Boca Raton, Florida (organized by Gallery Camino
Real)
Palm Beach Currents, Northwood Temporary Contemporary, West Palm
Beach, Florida
Clarke Galleries, New York, NYC, Stowe, Vermont, West Palm Beach, Florida
2007 Undertow: A Survey of South Florida Contemporary Art, Mimar Sinan
University College of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
Bridge Art Fair, Catalina Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida
The Shape of White, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Biennial Faculty Exhibition, Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, Florida
Galerias Prinardi USA, West Palm Beach, Florida (four-person exhibition)
2006 Paul Aho and Immi Storrs, Clarke Galleries, Stowe, Vermont
2005 Color Abstractions, Behringer Harvard and Trammell Crow, Houston,
Texas
2004 Cool Intentions, Somerhill Gallery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Select, Schmidt Center Gallery, Schmidt College of Art and Humanities, Florida
Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Norte Americanos, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, San Pedro Garza Garcia,
Mexico
2003 City Link Invitational, ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2000 Painting Abstraction, New York Studio School, New York, New York
Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1998 Presence–Contemporary Abstraction, Atrium Gallery, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (two-person exhibition)
Digital Realms, Ritter Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
(two-person exhibition)
Points of the Compass, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida
1997 MANIF, Seoul 97, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
Collector’s Corner, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida
West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
1996 Freites-Revilla Gallery, Gallery Center, Boca Raton, Florida
1995 Art Miami ‘95, Freites-Revilla Gallery, Miami, Florida
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Recipients, Boca Raton Museum
of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
1994 The Banner Project, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art,
Lake Worth, Florida
Three-Way Mirror, Martin County Court House Gallery, Stuart, Florida (three-
person exhibition)
1992 Invitational Alumni Exhibition, University of South Florida, Tampa,
Florida
1991 RVS Gallery, South Hampton, New York
1990 Reflections, Stein Gallery, Tampa, Florida
1988 Furniture as Art, Northwood University, West Palm Beach, Florida
Inaugural Exhibition, Stephen Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Art for the 80’s, State Capitol Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
1987 Neon, Light as Medium, Palm Beach Community College, Lake Worth,
Florida
Florida Originals, Burdines, Mayfair, Miami, Florida
1986 Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida (three-person
exhibition)
Florida Directions I, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Northwood Institute, West Palm Beach, Florida
1985 New Faces 85, Joan Hodgell Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1984 Inaugural Invitational Exhibition, Palm Beach County Art in Public Places,
County Governmental Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Nine Palm Beach County Artists, North Miami Museum, Miami, Florida
1982 Florida Community College Faculty Exhibition, State Capitol Gallery,
Tallahassee, Florida
1979 The Ball Show-Two Balls, Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Gallery, Atlanta,
Georgia
1978 The New Floridians, Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida;
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Southern Impulse, Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia (three-person exhibition)

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2007 Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory,
Alexandria, Virginia; Lope Max Diaz, juror
2004 New American Talent, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
(traveling exhibition); Jerry Saltz, juror
2002 51st All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca
Raton, Florida
1996 54th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Society of
the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
1994 Cheekwood National, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
1993 New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas; Kerry
Brougher, juror
Fourth Florida Biennial, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; Jan Avgikos,
juror
1992 42nd Annual All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca
Raton, Florida; Paul Schimmel, juror
1988 50th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Society of
the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida; Douglas Schultz, juror
1985 The Tampa Triennial, Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida; Douglas Schultz,
juror
First Florida Biennale, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
1984 Sixth Miami International Print Biennial, North Miami Museum of Art,
Miami, Florida; Walter Hopps, juror
Boston Printmakers 36th National Print Exhibition, Brockton Art Museum,
Brockton, Massachusetts; Clifford Ackley, juror
1982 44th Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach; Gerald Nordlund, juror
1980 29th Annual All-Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca
Raton, Florida
1979 Sixth International Print Bienale, Gradford Art Gallery, Gradford, England
1978 39th Annual National Exhibition of American Painting, Society of the
Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
Southeastern Graphics Annual, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New
Orleans, Louisiana
National Exhibition of Drawings and Prints, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio,
Nancy Graves, juror
19th Dixie Annual, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama, James
Demetrion, juror
1977 38th Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida

COLLABORATIONS AND PROJECTS

2002 Jah Music, set design for Ballet Florida in collaboration with
commissioned work by Demetrius Klein Dance Company,
Eissey Theatre, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
1994 Forgotten Spaces, installation of Box Office Bouquet, Prince Theatre,
Pahokee, Florida, performance and installation art
event funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
1993 The Garden Alone, set design for Demetrius Klein Dance Company,
Duncan Theatre, Lake Worth, Florida
1992 Ruth Among the Rushes, set material for Dow Raku Productions &
Demetrius Klein Dance Company, Lake Worth, Florida
1989 SHARK! South Florida Science Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
Club Boca, Boca Raton, Florida (suspended illuminated shark sculpture)
1988 Miami Vice, neon illuminated shark sculpture featured on national
television
Bar Balou, Bayside, Miami, Florida (suspended illuminated shark sculpture)
Club Med, St. Lucie, Florida (installation)
1987 Via Biarritz, Palm Beach, Florida (installation)
1986 Saks Fifth Avenue, window display featuring shark sculptures on Worth
Avenue, Palm Beach, Florida

SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2003 A Sea of Color–Janet Fish, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2002 Nelson Shanks–portraits and paintings from the figure, Armory Art
Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2001 Thought Through My Eyes–Graham Nickson, Armory Art Center, West
Palm Beach, Florida
2000 A Sense of Urgency–selected works by Sidney Goodman, Armory Art
Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
1999 Brooklyn in the Fifties (or the Geometrist and Other Pictures–Richard
Merkin, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida      1999 Complex
Relationships–selected works by Philip Pearlstein, Armory Art Center, West
Palm Beach, Florida
1998 A Passion For Paint–selected works by Wayne Thiebaud, Armory Art
Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
1991 Three of a Perfect Pair, Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray
Beach, Florida
1989 Palm Beach County Cultural Council Endowment Campaign Benefit, The
Gardens Mall, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS

2007 Undertow: A Survey of South Florida Contemporary Art, Mimar Sinan,
Istanbul, Turkey (exhibition catalogue)
Schwan, Gary, “Lessons in Abstraction,” Palm Beach Post, April 8, 2007 (review)
2006 Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who Publications
2005 Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who Publications
2003 Who’s Who in American Art, Marquis Who’s Who Publications
“Gallery,” City Link, May 7, 2003 (feature)
2004 New American Talent, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
2004 (exhibition catalogue)
Greenberg, Blue, “Summer Art,” The Herald-Sun, Chapel Hill, August 2004
(review)
2003 New American Painting, Open Studios Press, June 2003 (juried exhibition
in print, Ron Platt, juror)
2002 Myers. F. J., “Pointe Made, Show is Fine Finale,” Palm Beach Daily News,
April 28, 2002 (review)
1998 New American Painting, Open Studios Press, June 1998 (juried exhibition
in print, John Ravenal, juror)
Davis, Chopin, Eloise, “Contradictory Impulses,” Palm Beach Illustrated,
May/June 1998 (feature)
1997 Digital Realms, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
(exhibition catalogue)
1997 MANIF, Seoul 97, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea (exhibition
catalogue)
1996 Crouch, Lori, “Art Mixes Creativity, Technology,” Sun Sentinel, July 12,
1996 (review)
1995 Nichols, Ann “UTC Art Exhibit Features Unusual Prints,” Chattanooga
Free Press, November 5, 1995 (review)
Guy, Sherry, “Strong Images, Mighty Messages,” Culture, Vol.13, No.3, June-
August 1995
Landers, Linda, “Surfer’s Art,” Sun-Sentinel, July 6, 1995 (review)
1993 New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Museum (exhibition catalogue)
1992 Hurlburt, Roger, “Concentrated Color,” Sun-Sentinel, March 25, 1992
(review)
Schwan, Gary, “Artist Explores Changes,” Palm Beach Post, April 11, 1992
(review)
1989 Guy, Sherry, “Flights of Fancy,” Horizon, January/February 1989 (feature)
Guy, Sherry, “Acclaimed Artists Choose Challenge of Teaching,” Arts,
January/March 1989 (feature)
1988 Guy, Sherry, “Portrait of the Artists,” Arts, August/September 1988
(feature and cover art)
1987 Hunter, Chris, “1st Ubertalli Award Given to Teacher,” Arts, April/May
1987 (feature)
1986 Schwan, Gary, “Individual Artists Shine in Northwood Exhibition,” Palm
Beach Post, November 2, 1986 (review)
“Dye Transfer Enters the World of Art”, Newsletter for Instructors, Eastman
Kodak Company
Arts and Attractions, Spring 1987, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, cover
art
1985 Schwan, Gary, “PB County Art Exhibit in Miami,” Palm Beach Post, April
7, 1985 (review)
Kohen, Helen, “Palm Beach Artists Get Their Turn,” Miami Herald, April 5, 1985
(review)
1983 Schwan, Gary, “Some Interesting Works Welcome Back Students,” Palm
Beach Post, August 28, 1983 (review)

PUBLISHED WORKS

2007 Undertow: A Survey of South Florida Contemporary Art, Mimar Sinan
University, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue design)
2003 Janet Fish – A Sea of Color, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
(catalogue design)
2002 Nelson Shanks, Portraits and Paintings from the Figure, Armory Art
Center, West Palm Beach, Florida (catalogue essay)
2001 Mark Catesby, Opening the Door to a New World:Mark Catesby’s Travels
in La Florida 1722-1726, University Galleries,
Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (catalogue
design)
2000 A Sense of Urgency–Paintings and Drawings by Sidney Goodman,
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida (catalogue essay)
1996 “Instincts & Energy,” Culture, Vol.14, No.2, May-June 1996
1994 “A Tale of Two Tenors,” Culture, Vol.14, No.3, May-June 1996
“Drive by Viewing,” Culture, Vol.12, No.2, March-May 1994
“Just Add Water, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art,” Culture, Vol.
12, No.2, March-May 1994
“Portraits of the Artists,” Culture, Vol.14, No.3, June-August 1994

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia
Colonial Bank, Palm Beach, Florida
Florida Art in State Buildings Program, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton,
Florida
Volusia County Art in Public Places, Volusia County Courthouse,
Wachovia, West Palm Beach, Florida
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, Louisiana
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Art in Public Places, Palm Beach International Airport, West Palm Beach,
Florida
Chase, Miami, Florida
American Express, Jacksonville, Florida
Bache, Jacksonville, Florida
NCNB, Tampa, Florida
Westin Hotel, Coral Gables, Florida
Mandarin Hotel, Miami, Florida
Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino, Palm Beach, Aruba
MGM Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada
DoulbleTree Downers Grove, Downers Grove, Illinois

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Florida Atlantic University, Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, 777 Glades
Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33434

Adjunct Faculty (August 2004-present)

Responsibilities: Teaching Printmaking I, Printmaking II; additional courses
taught include Experimental Printmaking, Screenprinting and Advanced
Painting; management of the printmaking facility, instructing undergraduate
and graduate students

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, 55 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, Florida
33444

Chief Program Officer (February 2003-December 2003)

Responsibilities: Management of visual arts education and exhibition
programs, including an internationally recognized master   artists workshop
program featuring 150 workshops by photography’s leading artists and
educators; development and management of an annual exhibition program;
development of new program and outreach initiatives; fund raising and
writing of grants to support programs and facility expansions; presentation of
an annual international photography festival, FOTOfusion, serving over 5,000
participants annually

Armory Art Center, 1703 Lake Avenue, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401

Dean, School of Art (September 2000-January 2003)
Program and Education Director (September 1998-September 2000)
Program and Marketing Director (February 1996-August 1998)

Responsibilities: Management of visual arts education and exhibition
programs, including staff of 30 instructors and program of 90 course offerings
serving 3,500 enrollments annually; development and management of a
nationally recognized master artists workshop program featuring
internationally recognized artists and educators; development and
management of an annual exhibition program featuring leading regional and
nationally recognized artists; development of new program and outreach
initiatives; fundraising and writing of grants to support programs and facility
expansions; design and production of all printed materials and marketing
tools, development of marketing strategies, media campaigns and press kits;
liaison with media for all special events, educational and public programs

Palm Beach Community College, 4200 South Congress Avenue, Lake Worth,
Florida 33401

Adjunct Faculty (August1980-May1998)

Responsibilities: Teaching classes in digital imaging, including Adobe
Photoshop and Illustrator; printmaking, painting, drawing, figure drawing,
anatomy, 2-D design, photography and graphic arts; management of the
printmaking facility, including lithography, etching and screen printing
programs; and teaching Continuing Education classes in aesthetics and
contemporary issues in the visual arts.

International Fine Art Expositions, 3725 SE Ocean Boulevard, Stuart, Florida
34996

Exhibitor Coordinator and North American Sales Representative (August 1994-
June 1995)

Responsibilities: Promoting and generating sales of exposition space to
international art dealers for participation in fine art fairs in New York,
Chicago, Miami and Hong Kong; development of marketing and promotional
tools for sales and attendance; liaison with media; coordination of all
client/exhibitor needs before and during the expositions

Palm Beach County Cultural Council, 1555 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, #900,
West Palm Beach, Florida 33401

Director of Publications and Visual Arts Services (October 1993-August 1994)

Responsibilities: Overview of corporate identity, literature and marketing
services for the Council and its projects; developing and presenting training
workshops and technical assistance programs for regional visual artists;
information and services liaison with the visual arts community; staffing
professional artists and public art committees advisory to the Board of
Directors and Board of County Commissioners; coordinating and writing
feature stories on the arts for the Council’s quarterly magazine, Culture

Director of Art in Public Places (December 1990-September 1993)

Responsibilities: Developing and administering public art exhibition programs
at county facilities and other public locations; administration and marketing of
the acquisition program and collection of public art at Palm Beach
International Airport, totaling $500,000 in public and private funds; serving as
staff liaison to Board of County Commissioners, Department of Airports and
all media contacts; developing marketing and educational programs
supporting art in public places

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member, Steering Committee, Artists of Palm Beach County, 2006
Member, Palm Beach County Public Art Advisory Committee, 2000-2004
Co-Chair, Art Against AIDS, benefit auction event for Comprehensive AIDS
Program, 1994
Member, Advisory Committee, Eissey Campus Arts Center, Palm Beach
Community College, 1994
Member, Steering Committee, Palm Beach County School of the Arts, 1990
Member, Airport and Judicial Center Art Advisory Committees of the Palm
Beach County Cultural Council, 1989-91
Panelist, Florida Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowships grant review, 1991
Member, Public Art Advisory Committee, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 1989-
91
Founding Chairman, Professional Artists Committee, Palm Beach County
Cultural Council, 1988-90
Board Member, ex officio, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, 1988-90
Board Member and Founding Chairman Art Advisory Committee, Old School
Square Cultural Arts Center, Delray Beach, 1988-90

GRANTSMANSHIP

2004 Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Category B, Tourist Development
funding for marketing, Palm Beach Photographic Centre
(program narratives and budget)
2003 Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Category A, program funding for
Visioning Howard Park, team project with Michael Singer
Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Category B, Tourist Development funding
for marketing, Armory Art Center 1996-2003
(program narratives and budget)
2000 The Richard Florsheim Art Fund, funding for A Sense of Urgency –
Paintings and Drawings by Sidney Goodman, Armory Art Center