Paul Cava
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology - MFA, 1975
Richmond College CUNY, BA, 1972
The New School for Social Research, 1969
Selected Public Collections
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Tang Museum at Skidmore College
Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA
Peter Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Allan Chasanoff Collection, Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The San Diego Museum of Art
University of Pennsylvania Library
Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
Haverford College, Special Collections
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Paul Cava / Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Inks, Moderne Gallery, Phila., PA
2017 Variations, C.R. Ettinger Studio, Phila., PA
2013 For Love, JDC Fine Art, San Diego, CA
2010 Thirty Years, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, UArts, Philadelphia (catalogue)
2009 Paul Cava / Photosensualis, Woodstock, NY
2008 Heart of the Matter: New and Selected Works, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Children of Adam, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA (book)
2001 Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1997 Paul Cava / Drawings and Paintings, Millersville University of PA,
1985 Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Paul Cava / Collages, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
1978 Contemporary Collage, Gallery One, Boston, MA
1977 Photographics Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1976 Mancini Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-Garde, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA2019 Democratic Vistas: Whitman, Body, and Soul, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University
2019 Whitman Alabama, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2018 The Contemporary Figure, Stanek Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Take Two: Contemporary Photographs, Julien Levy Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Extended Realities: The Language of Photomontage, Rowan University Art Gallery, NJ
2011 About Face, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
2009 The Streets of Philadelphia, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008 When Photography & Printmaking Collide, Free Library of Philadelphia
2006 It’s Very Difficult To Keep The Line Between The Past and The Present, ClampArt, NYC
2006 Who’s Afraid of the Dark, AnamorFose, Kortrijk, Belgium
2005 Fifteen Photographers, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Tatouage, Breda Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
2002 The Peter Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum
2002 Group Show, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 In Our Own Backyard, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2000 A New View, The Noyes Museum of Art, NJ
1999 Contemplation, Abington Art Center, PA
1998 Photo Synthesis, The Philadelphia Art Alliance
1997 The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Complexity and Contradiction, Philadelphia College of Textiles, PA
1994 Tradition and the Unpredictable, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue/book)
1989 Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Twining Gallery, NYC
1984 The Morris Gallery, PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
1983 Santa Fe Center of Photography, Santa Fe, NM
1983 Allan Frumkin Gallery (Chicago Art Expo), Chicago, Il
1982 Photocollage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1982 Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
1979 The Altered Photograph, P.S.1, New York, NY
Awards
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, 1981
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, 1999
Reviews & Publications
2020 Paul Cava, Photographs, Collages, Montages
2018 Paul Cava, Inks, Moderne Gallery, Edith Newhall, The Philadelphia Inquirer
2018 Artist Paul Cava Pulls Cathedral Exhibit, Stephen Salisbury, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb.16, 2018
2017 Paul Cava’s photo-poetic delights in Variations at C. R. Ettinger Studio, Michael Lieberman, July 1, 2017
2013 Eyemazing: The New Collectible Photography
2010 Paul Cava / Thirty Years at the Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, UArts, Philadelphia (exhibition catalogue)
2009 Eyemazing Issue 03, 2009, Paul Cava Interview (Tintype Collection)
2006 Eyemazing Issue 02, 2006 (Cover) 10 page feature with interview (cover)
2006 Children of Adam review by George Hunka
2006 Children of Adam review by Denise Wolf
2005 Walt Whitman & Paul Cava, Children of Adam (book)
2001 Paul Cava, Recent Work, Seraphin Gallery (exhibition catalogue)
1999 Love and Desire, Curated and edited by William Ewing (book)
1997 Paul Cava, Paintings and Drawings, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, PA
1994 Tradition And The Unpredictable, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue)
1988 Searching Out The Best, PA Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1982 Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
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