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Artist Bio

Paul Santoleri is an award-winning artist known for his drawing installations and his wall-sized paintings found in city streets and public places around the world. He has received grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner foundation, the Independence foundation, the Santo Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; projects have been funded by the US State department, the city of Philadelphia, the Ford Foundation, the NEA, Partners for the Americas, & Cultures France among others. He has created many social art projects: collaborations with artistic communities and embassies worldwide. He has collaborated often with the MAP, Philadelphia, a world-renowned city public art program. He is an educator of young artists as well, teaching students at Philadelphia’s French International school (EFIP), and LaSalle University. Paul has traveled extensively to make work. He is represented globally in collections public and private, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rhode Island School of Design’s Museum among others. He’s now a very proud dad and has a great time drawing and painting and sharing art experience with his two toddler boys.

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Education

1991 + 1993
Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME

1991
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
MFA, Painting

1987
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia and Rome, Italy
BFA, Painting

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Awards

2018
Individual Artists' Grant, Santo Foundation, St. Louis, MI

2013 - 2014
Partners for the Americas: Travel Grant to Brazil for Cultural Exchange, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2005 + 2011
Visual Artist Fellowship, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY

2009, 2004 + 1992
Visual Arts Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA

2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
S.O.S. Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA 

1991 + 1993
Assistantship + Fresco Scholarships, Skowhegan, ME

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Residencies

2015, 2016, 2019
Residency and Exhibition, Chateau le Trousse Barriere, Briare, France

2015
1-Year Career Support and Studio, Fellowship / Grant, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Brooklyn, NY

2012, 2013
Summer Residency in Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY

2011
3-Month Paid Residency, Headlands Art Center, Sausalito, CA

2012
Sept. – November, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France

2009
Residency, Christiania Cultural Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009, 2001
June - August Cultural Envoy to Paris / Residency, Cite International des Arts, Paris, France

2009
“Arts in Industry” Paid Residency / Grant, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

2008
3-Month Residency and Exhibit (in Historic Village where the company was founded), FISKARS Co., RÅSBORG, Finland

Residency / Support Grant, Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

International Mural Collaborative, INTER-NOS, Santiago de Cuba

2007
Residency / Arts Festival, CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic

2000
Brandywine Workshop, Support Grant, Philadelphia, PA

Support Grant and Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

1992, 1998
MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1994, 1998
Residency Fellowship, Fundacion Cultural de Altos de Chavon, La Romana, D.R.

1992
Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

1991 and 1993
Fresco Scholarship and Assistantship, Skowhegan, ME

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Collections

Centro Cultural North Americano Nicaraguense, Managua, Nicaragua

Claremont College Consortium, Claremont, CA

Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic

Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX

Hospital Robert DeBre, Paris, France

John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

MacGraw-Hill, New York, NY

McDonalds' Corporate Collection, King of Prussia, PA

Odermatt Collection, Paris, France + Montreal, Canada

City of Philadelphia Office of Arts and Culture, Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Please Touch Museum, Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Reading Anthracite Museum, Pottsville, PA

Pfizer Collection, Radnor, PA

Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

Standard + Poor's Collection, New York, NY

US State Department, US Embassy, France

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Professional Experience

2018
Individual Artists' Grant, Santo Foundation, St. Louis, MO

2015, 2016
Residency, Chateau le Trosse Barriere, Briare, France

2013 - 2014
Fellowship/grant, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation

2012/2013
Travel Grant to Brazil for Cultural Exchange, Partners for the Americas

2013
Summer Residency in Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY

2012
Cite International des Arts, Paris, France

2005 + 2011
Visual Artist Fellowship, Independence Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Residency, Christiania Cultural Forum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cultural Envoy to Paris / Residency at Cite International des Arts

Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY

"Arts in Industry" Residency / Grant, John Michael Kohler Art Center

Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

2008
3-Month Residency, Fiskars, Rasborg, Finland

Triangle Workshop, Brooklyn, NY

Residency/Arts Festival, INTER-NOS International Mural Collaborative: Santiago de Cuba

2007
@CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic

2001, 2004, 2005, 2006
S.O.S. Stipend

2004
Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Support Grant, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Support Grant / Residency, Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

1992, 1998
MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1994, 1998
Residency Fellowship, Fundacion Cultural de Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican Republic

1992
Residency, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA

Fellowship, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1991
Scholarship, Skowhegan, ME

1990
Fellowship/ Residency, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

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Selected Commissions

2024
Mosaic Staircase, Rockville Pool and Fitness Center, Rockville, MD

2022
Wall Mural, Vibe Creative District, Virginia Beach, VA

Public Mural / Mosaic for Wall under Ben Franklin Bridge, City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2021
Wall Mural, New Ridge Brewery, Philadelphia, PA

2019
Mural / Mosaic on Emaux de Briare Factory, (at Villiage Entrance) City of Briare, France

2020
Mosaic for Venice Island Bridge, Manayunk, PA

Mosaic for Entry into Ridge Avenue Neighborhood, Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia, PA

Wall Mural in Town Center, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ

2019
Mosaic and Concrete Relief, TD Bank New Branch Office in Lehigh Neighborhood, Philadelphia, PA

2016
Tile Mural, Office of Arts & Culture Percent for Art Commission, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

Mural, Buerger Center for Pediatric Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Mural, Cirrus Logic, Inc. London and Edinburgh Corporate Headquarters, London, UK and Edinburgh, Scotland

2015
4 Murals on Biotech Campus, Steelwave, San Diego, CA

2014
Mural, Cirrus Logic, Inc. Austin Corporate Headquarters, Austin, TX

Manayunk Canal Tow Path 3 Murals / Mosaics, and Concrete, Schuylkill River Project, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Wall Mural for 50th Anniversary of Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

2011
Exterior Murals at entrance to Maternity Ward and Hospital School, Robert DeBre Hospital, Paris, France

Outdoor Piece, Billnas Ruuki Management Events, Helsinki, Finland

2007
3 Story Mural / Glass Mosaic, Thomas Eakins’ House / Philadelphia Mural Arts Program Offices, Philadelphia, PA

2009 + 2012
Murals and Glass Mosaic / Concrete Relief on North and South Philadelphia Zoological Gardens Entrance, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Christiania Cultural Forum for Climate Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark

Interior Painted Mural, Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Exterior Stained Glass Mosaic, Philadelphia Free Library Ramonita Rodriguez Branch, Philadelphia, PA
In Collaboration with Mural Arts

2004
Fresco Mural, Philadelphia Free Library Walnut West Branch, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Office of Arts and Culture / Percent for Art

The University of Pennsylvania: Radio WXPN/ World Cafe Live, 2 murals at radio/music venue

2004
Fresco and Acrylic murals on Public Pedestrian Walkway, Dow, Philadelphia, PA

1999
60 x 150 ft Oil Tank Mural, Sunoco, Philadelphia Tourist Commission, Mural Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Library at Historic Yellow Springs: Fresco, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania, PA

1997 - 1999
3 Public Murals as Artist in Residence, Philadelphia Museum of Art Education Department, Philadelphia, PA

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Publications

“Posters Can Help”, Slanted Publishers, Karsruhe, Germany, 2022

“Street Art Themes and Motifs”, Pierre Toromanoff, Fancy Books, Lyon , France, 2018 -“Rhetoric In City Life”, Strata Publishing, State College, PA, 2016 (Cover)

“Artists to Artists” Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, volume II (2002-16) 2016

“Bartram’s Boxes Remix”, Schiffer Publishing, pp.168-161, 2014

“Artists Homes And Studios” by E. Ashley Rooney, Shiffer Publishing pp. 96-97, 2014

ARTAQ BOOKZINES, books that chronical 3 festivals of street art- Paris, France & Berlin, Germany: 2010, 2011, 2012,

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, “Full Spectrum” (catalogue) Prints made at Brandywine workshop,2012

“BIKE ART” by Kiriakos Iosifidis, Carpe Diem Press, Athens Greece, 2012; 254 pp(p11/ p35)

“Paul Santoleri: Murs et Demesures”, by Catherine Botton, Criteres Editions, Grenoble, France, 2010,60pp (monograph)

100 MidAtlantic Artists, by E.Ashley Rooney, Schiffer Publishing, Lexington, MA, 2011

FRESH! Illustration: Objects/Public, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011

“Philadelphia Public Art, the Full Spectrum”, William Penn Foundation, 2009

Timeout NY, review of Kentler Drawing Center Exhibition, 2007

“Bienvenue a Fresque City”, Beaux Arts magazine, Paris, France, Isabelle de Wavrin, July, 2009

“Mural Art: from Graffiti to Trompe l’oeil”Carpe Diem Publications, Athens, Greece, , 2008

"The Murals Of Philadelphia and the Stories They Tell" Temple University Press, 2002: Jane Golden, Robin Rice, Monica Yant-Kinney, and “More Philadelphia Murals and the stories they tell”, 2006: (Golden/Rice/Pompilio)

Double Negative", collection of prints, Space 1026, Phila.

Nozone Magazine, #9, New York, NY; (graphic short story) 9/95

Philadelphia. Inquirer Magazine (short story) 9/94-Philadelphia. Inquirer, Ed Sosanski, review, 2006

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Duke Gallery, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA

2019
Chateau de Trousse Barriere, Municipal Gallery, Briare, France

2018
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA

Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Kansas City, MO

2017
Draw the Line, the 13th annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Betsy Meyer Award

2015
Installation, International Arts Festival, El Paseo, Taos, NM

2014
Chashama Gallery, Harlem Space 1351 Amsterdam, New York, NY

1816 House, Philadelphia, PA

2013-2014
Paul Santoleri: Flight Pattern, Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2012 - 2013
Foundation Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2010
Wall Tattoos, Galerie Ligne13, Paris, France

2009
CO2 Dragon, Grå Hall, Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008 - 2009
Omega Warm Garden Sunrise, Thomas Eakins’ House Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Subterranean Basement, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Omega Warm Garden, Red Gallery, Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Yorkshire, UK

Confluence, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

2006 - 2007
Surface Tension, Art Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY

2005-2006
Linear Interference, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Illusions of Greeneur, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

2000-2001
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

2000
Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA

Window on Broad, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Gallerie Nouveau, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1997
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

1996
Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995
Schuylkill County Arts Council, Pottsville, PA

1990
Centennial Hall, Tucson, AZ

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Two-Person

2014
Galerie Ligne13, Paris, France

2013
Mutantes, Galeria ACBEU-Vittoria, 2 person show, Salvador, Brazil

2017
Drawn into It, 1816 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Spinning Worlds, Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ

2016
Chateau Le Trosse Barriere, Briare, France

2015
Gallerie Ligne13, Paris, France

The Art of Healing, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Apollonian & Dionyssian, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Curator: Paul Santoleri

Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Black and White with a bit of color, Art Space Gallery, Kohler, WI

Arts and Industry Retrospective, JM Kohler Art Museum, Sheboygan, WI

2014 - 2017
Bartram's Boxes Remix, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA
Traveling Exhibition: Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI; Fuller Craft Museum, MA

Collector's Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

2013-2014
Beyond the Paint: Philadelphia's Mural Arts, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA

2013
Opus Delits, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

Forgotten Philadelphia, American Institute of Architecture, Philadelphia, PA

A Unique Vision, Snyderman /Works Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Le M.U.R. d'Art, Le Blancs Manteux, Paris, France

Traits-d'Union, L'Albatros, Montreuil, Paris, France

Ophite, Paris, France

le Nuit blanche, Cite des Arts, Paris, France

La Voie Est Libre, Montreuil, Paris, France

Car Art, Lijm + Cultur, Delft, the Netherlands

Between the Walls, Wallingford Art Center, PA

Forgotten Philadelphia, Fairmount Park Welcome Center, Philadelphia, PA

In Process, Carriage House, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

Mythiq 27, Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, France

Le Virgine de Noel, Chapelle du Peristile, St. Sulpice, Paris, France
Curator: Art of Now

2011-2012
AND, Chapel de St. Sauveur, Issy de Moulenioux, France

2011
Drawn in a Day, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Dave Bown Projects, New York, NY

2010
Morning Glory, Wild Stylerz Gallery, Paris, France

Cosmic Terrarium, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA

Synesthesia, SINErgy project space Philadelphia, PA

I Love America, Studio55, Paris, France

Resident Artists, The Granary, Fiskars village, Rasborg, Finland

2010 -2011
ARTAQ festival, I & II, Anger, France, Paris, France, Berlin, Germany

2009
Temples, Merz Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin

2009 -2010
Flatland, id11, Delft, the Netherlands

2008
Triangle Workshop, Open Studios / Under the Bridges Arts Festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

Mrhani (Waste), Festival:CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic
Installation

2006
Genesis 2006, Gothenburg, Sweden
Visuals in Production with Composer Gui Mallon

Takatsuki City Exhibition, Takatsuki City Theatre, Japan

Aunkan Artists, Galleria La Cadrega, Milano, Italy

2006
From Walls to the Boards, Philadelphia Foundation Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Outside / In, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Fuel Collection, Philadelphia, PA

2005
Visual Aids, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Annotazioni d'Arte, Milano, Italy

Galeria Aunkan, Barcelona, Spain

Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2004
Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2003
New and Black and White, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2002
Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia Muralists, Thomas Eakins' House, Philadelphia, PA

2001
Obsessive Drawing, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE

Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000
3 AM, US Embassy, Damascus, Syria

Wall Power, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

1999
Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Context, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Challenge at 20, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Visual Aids, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY

Family Realities, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

1997
Faculty Exhibition, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Curcio-Spector Gallery, New York, NY

20 Years of Altos de Chavon, New School, Parsons' Gallery, New York, NY

Artists in Residence, Altos de Chavon Gallery, La Romana, Dominican Republic

1996
Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

1995
Art of the State, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Skowhegan at 50, Baxter Gallery, Portland College of Art, ME

Drawing Currents, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

Landscape-10 Points of View, Stifel Arts Center, Wheeling, WV

479 Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Wind Challenge, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

Self-Portrait, Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA

The Complete Drawing, Nexus, Philadelphia, PA

Artists in Residence, Altos de Chavon Gallery, La Romana, Dominican Republic

1992
The Print, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY

1991
University Museum, Tucson, AZ

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Howard County Arts Council, Ellicott City, MD

2022
Drawing Currents, UNC Asheville Art Galleries, Ashville, NC

2019
Bestiare, Musee des Emaux et Mosaic, Briare, France

Art on 30, San Diego, CA

HATCH, Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA

2018
Drawn Into It, 1816 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2017
Bartram’s Boxes Remix, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA

2015
Bartram’s Boxes Remix, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

2016
Artists de la RUE, Chateau Le Trousse Barriere, Briare, France

2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
Gallerie Ligne13, Paris, France

2015
The Art of Healing, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Galerie Ligne13, Paris, France
2 Person Exhibition

Apollonian and Dionysian, The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibition Curator of 25+ Artists

DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Black and White with a Bit of Color, Art Space Gallery, Kohler, WI

Arts and Industry Retrospective, John Michael M Kohler Art Museum, Sheboygan, WI

Bartram’s Boxes Remix, Center for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, PA

Collector’s Choice, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA

2013 - 2014
Beyond the Paint: Philadelphia Mural Arts Exhibition, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA