EDUCATION

2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA BFA Painting and Printmaking
  Loughborough College of Art and Design, Loughborough, England
  Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute of Florence, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Between the Lights, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Fornever, Jeff Bailey Gallery , New York, NY
2006 Intermission, Jeff Bailey Gallery , New York, NY (including a video collaboration with John Miserendino)
2004 Make Them Love You, Jeff Bailey Gallery , New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Observant, ISE Foundation, New York, NY (curated by Vicki Sher)
2009 Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Dan Cameron)
  Whitey On The Moon, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Kanishka Raja)
  Room Tones, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY (organized by Nathan Spondike)
  Give Them What They Never Knew They Wanted, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
  Intus Tensio, or Appropriated Special, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Paul D'Agostino)
2008 Monsters, RENTAL, New York, NY (Curated by Robert Longo)
  Making History, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Yaelle Amir)
2007 Hard Times, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Introspective Men, Madder 139 Gallery, London, England (curated by David Kefford)
  Fresh Direct, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Sunday Afternoon, Match-Art, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Matthew Fisher and Christina Vassalo)
  Pencil Me In, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
  Cleanliness, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Adam Frank)
  Playpen, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (curated by Austin Thomas)
2002 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
  Lucky Draw, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
  Made in New York, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA (curated by John O’Connor)
  SNAPSHOT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2001 Interval: New Art for a New Space, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY (review)
  Mitochondria Emancipation, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY (curated by Christine Kim, catalog)
  Skowhegan Alumni, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY
  All Hands, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY (curated by David Terry)
  Artist in the Marketplace: 21st Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (cat.)
  SNAPSHOT, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
2000 SNAPSHOT, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (cat.)
  FRESH, Butler’s Laundromat, Skowhegan, ME. (Performance with Daniel Bozhkov)
  Vermont Studio Center Resident Artists, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT

ART FAIRS

2008 PULSE, Miami, FL
2007 Year 07, London, England
2006 PULSE, Miami, FL
  Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland OR
2005 PULSE, Miami, FL
  Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland OR
  Art L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2004 Scope, Miami, FL
  Scope, Los Angeles, CA (Stevenson Fine Art, New York)
  Scope, New York, NY (ScopeCircle, Committee for Emerging Art)

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

2008 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts studio, New York, NY
2007 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts studio, New York, NY
2006 Artist Pension Trust, invited member New York, NY
2005 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Printmaking/Drawing/Artist Books, New York, NY
2002 Artist Residency Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
  Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2001 Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2000 Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
1999 Artist Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1998 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, Richmond, VA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008 Fusco, Maria. The Happy Hypocrite: Issue 1 - Linguistic Hardcore, Bookworks, London, England
  Fisher, Matthew. The Distance of Drawing, Matthews the Younger blogspot
2006 Risemberg, Rafael. A Weekend in the Country: Paolo Arao and His Buddies Head to the Catskills. The New York Blade, April 3: p.16.
2005 New American Paintings, North Eastern Edition Volume #56, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
  Harper’s Magazine, Readings, January, p. 22
  Orden, Abraham. “Circus Without a Tent.” Artnet.com, February 11.
2004 VOGUE (Portugal), November p. 104
  The New York Sun, Calendar, October 19. p. 15
  Harper’s Magazine, Readings, July, p.23
2001 Iwasaki, Hitomi, Robert Lee and Timothy Liu. Mitochondria Emancipation. Asian American Arts Centre.
  Ramoran, Edwin and Lydia Yee. Artist in the Market Place: 21st Annual Exhibition. Bronx Museum of the Arts.
  Smith, Roberta. “Funky Digs with Lots of Space for Performance-Oriented Hipsters”. The New York Times. September 28. E39.

Born 1977
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

paoloarao@gmail.com

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