Paul Waddell
b. 1983. Lives and works in Oklahoma City, OK.
EDUCATION
2006 BFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston, MA
2005 Certificate of Advanced Studies, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (PAINTING)
2018 Sportopia, IAO, Oklahoma City, OK
2017 Transmorphing Utopia, LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Thus Spake The Fungus, Auturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Synesthesia, Five Car Garage, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Summer Show, 24hr Charles Gallery, Malibu, CA
2014 Edge of Continuation, Pablo's Birthday, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Backroom, Know More Games, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Waxing the Bud, Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Ponding Purple Grass, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Grey Goo, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 YOU KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (PERFORMANCE)
2020 Doodles on the phone with no one while living in Oklahoma, Paramount Room, Oklahoma City, OK
2020 The Radical Choice to see what you are looking at, The Melton Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
2019 New Genres, Living Arts,Tulsa, OK
2019 Spooky Tour, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK
2018 Many Great works are misunderstood, The Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK
2018 New Genres, Living Arts,Tulsa, OK
2017 Town Hall, LTD LA, Los Angeles CA, 2017
2017 Transmorphing My Audience,LTD LA, Los Angeles,CA
2016 Community Outreach Four Loco-Gold, The Gong Show, ClubPro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 No money No family or PLAY UP LAMBO SEE ME, Solo Dolo 5, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2015 I want to be with good people in a good place, The Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2015 Salt Lake Where Are Your Children, International Performance Festival, Salt Lake City Main Library, Salt Lake City, UT
2014 GULP, STUPID PILLS, Curated by Paul Pescador, Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles, CA
2014 5PM TO 6PM, Time Body Space Objects 3, DFBRL8R, Chicago, IL
2013 Near urgent release, A marketing guide for developing simulated utopia, Confusion is Sex #3, Sepulveda Wildlife Basin, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Move in Again, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Implied causality for casual distribution of microsimulations of a parody of a reminder, of reminder of a reminder, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Quick start camping trip urbane sim revision: a system for showing results, Art Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, Ruskin Theatre, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Moving In: Good and Bad Intentions, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Music Insider, Hammer’s Venice Beach Biennial Weekend, Venice Beach, CA
2012 BusinessMan As Hero-a Behavioral Simulation Model for Metropolitan Policy Analysis, Grand Re-opening, Human Resources , Los Angeles CA
2010 I Like Massachusetts and Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Me, MEME Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2010 The searing hot life of a house cat, Vertigo performance series, Waterloo Centre For the Arts, Waterloo, IA
2010 I want you to write “robot sex LOL” on it before it's photocopied.,Yard Sale, Möbius Artist Group, Boston, MA
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
2011 Free Clinic #1, Performance Event, Action Bureau, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Free Clinic #2,Performance Event, Action Bureau, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010-2012 National Performance Art Month, Parks Gallery, Idyllwild, CA
2002-2005 TEST Performance Event, Various Locations, Boston, MA
RESIDENCIES
2015 Fishers Island Fellowship, Fishers Island, New York, 2015
PUBLICATIONS
2017 not a cult, Transmorphing Utopia: The Works of Paul Waddell, Los Angeles, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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