Paula Gillen b.1956 New Haven, Ct.
EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Photography 1984
Maryland Institute, College of Art, BFA, Fine Art & Photography 1978
University of Derby, Derby, England 1977
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
SOLO SHOWS
2020 Celebrity Masks, East Window, Boulder, CO
2020 Head Trip, Ten-Nineteen, New Orleans, LA
2011 Collage Portraits, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO
2008 Collage Portraits, Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA
2007 Babies From Heaven, People in Hell, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ
2005 Something Old, Something New, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ
1987 University of Science Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
GROUP SHOWS
2022 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery, Wash, DC
2021 Three Acts, MOP, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2021 Denver Collage Club, Alto Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 Mirror Mirror, Union Hall, Denver, CO
2021 ArtMix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2021 Trigger Warnings, NoBo Art Center Gallery, Boulder, CO
2020 ArtMix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2020 Open Studios, Museum of Boulder, Boulder, CO
2019 Open Studios, Nalanda Gallery, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
2019 ArtMix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2019 Roman Trumpe–l’oeil, MOP, University of Colorado, IMAP Gallery, Boulder, CO
2019 Denver Collage Club, Alto Gallery, Denver, CO
2019 Artist Swap, Edge Gallery, Denver, CO
2018 Pop Gallery - Open Studios, Boulder, CO
2017 Denver Collage Club, Alto Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 Flip, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO
2017 Sight Sung, Visual Voice and the Female Gaze, Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO
2017 Rembrandt Yards, Boulder, CO
2017 NoBo 7th Annual Group Show, Boulder, CO
2016 Colours Salon, Boulder, CO
2016 Bricolage Gallery / Art Parts, Boulder, CO
2016 Cow Muse, Art Fundraiser, Boulder, CO
2016 NoBo 6th Annual Group Show, Boulder, CO
2015 Roger Anderson Gallery, Denver, CO
2015 Playing With Beauty, MOP, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2015 Performing Mythologies, CPAC, Denver, CO
2014 Open Studios Tour, Boulder, CO
2013 Zine Show, CCNY, New York, NY
2012 Two Person Show, Christine Marguerite Designs, Boulder, CO
2012 Zine Show, CCNY, New York, NY
2011 Redline: Month of Photography, Denver, CO
2011 MOP UC Boulder, Visual Arts Complex, Boulder, CO
2010 Faculty Exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
2010 Left Forum International Conference, Pace University, New York, NY
2009 Interpreting the Political Landscape, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
2006 Aus Amerika II, Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
2006 ICP Faculty Show, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2006 Images Against War, Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
2006 Transformation: Photography of the 21st Century, Center for the Living Arts, Mobil, AL
2005 Saratoga Inside-Out, Arts Center Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2005 7 Internationalen Fototage, Mannheim, Germany
2004 Censored, The New Yorker Gallery, New York, NY
2003 The Seduction of Discontinuity, The New Yorker Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Greenwich House Pottery, Member Exhibitions, NYC, NY (1999-2002)
1992 On the Street/Off the Street, Maryland Art Place, Curated by Peter Walsh, Baltimore, MD
1989 Five Women Photographers, Towson State University, Towson, MD
1986 Password, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 Postism, Bedrock Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Broadsides and Broken English, Bedrock Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Sexuality in Art and the Media, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1985 Traveling Fellowship Exhibition 2, SAIC Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Women Fine Arts Photographers International, Eighth St. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Performance/Installations - Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 1-800 Glamour, Book Space gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Faculty Show, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ
1981 3rd New Jersey Biennial, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1980 Two Women, School #33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1979 Polaroids and Paintings, Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1976 Photographs: Gillen and McCroskey, Space Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD.
1973 Three Women, Exhibition of Drawings, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
Awards:
Fulbright Grant, Malaysia 1986-87
Residencies:
Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2013
Ox-Bow Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, Michigan 1985
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD 1980
Web Articles:
2020: Lenscratch
http://lenscratch.com/2020/11/collage-paula-gillen/
2020: Ten Nineteen
From Life Magazine to Women in Space: A Conversation with Paula Gillen by Wendy Vogel, September 18, 2020
2020: Dazzle
Superpower Women In Space, An Interview with Paula Gillen by Anita Solick Oswald June 9, 2020
2019: 303 Magazine
https://303magazine.com/2019/03/photographers-mop-denver/
2018: The Skeeve.com
https://www.theskeeve.com/15-vintage-punk-pics-resurrect-baltimores-70s-underground/
Publications:
2022 Disgust: Unhealthy Practices, East Window
2021 Shame Radiant, East Window
2021 Approaching Photography, by Paul Hill, Routledge
2015 ACRES PAPER ISSUE 3 Striving For Art in Reverse
2014 PLOT: HUNTING GROUND Vol.3 Darwin's Nightmare by Pat Oleszko, images by Paula Gillen
1992 Humor As A Subversive Act: An Exhibition Propagandizing Baltimore Art by Peter Walsh, Published by ArtScape