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ARTIST STATEMENT

My creative process is fueled by experiences of awareness in architectural space. I initiate a method of translating those spatial sensations into paintings by photographing the spaces, selecting salient images, and then putting those images through various permutations until they become an open structure that I can rearticulate through painting. This way of working offers me an opportunity to contemplate and feel more deeply the role that image making itself plays in constructing my conscious relationship to the world around me and feel more deeply the extent to which spatial experience is the basis of perception. For me creating images is a form of making meaning from experience and this involves an endless process of attention, awareness, and reflection.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Paul Fabozzi is a New York–based artist whose paintings and works on paper investigate the relationship between spatial experience and perception. Drawing on architecture, movement, and memory, his practice explores how image-making can construct a conscious connection to the physical world—transforming experience into meaning through abstract form.

Fabozzi’s work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Rome, Busan, and beyond. His work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library.

He is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and support from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. In addition to his studio practice, Fabozzi is the editor of Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art since 1945 (Prentice-Hall), a widely used anthology of contemporary art writings.

Fabozzi currently serves as Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. He is also the Creative
Director of Moves: Movimenti Creativi, a visiting artist residency program based in Lucera, Italy. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and his BFA from Alfred University, with formative studies in Cortona and Siena, Italy.

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EDUCATION

1993
Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
MFA, Painting

1988
School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
BFA, Painting

1989
Cortona, Italy program with the University of Georgia at Athens

1987
Siena, Italy program with SUNY Buffalo

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TEACHING

St. John’s University, Queens, NY

• Professor of Fine Arts, 2008 to present

• Associate Professor of Fine Arts, 2003 to 2008

• Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, 1998 to 2003

• Department of Fine Arts Chair, July 2023 to present; July 2004 to June 2007

• Co-coordinator of the Rome Summer Program, 1996 to 2008

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GRANTS AND AWARDS

2021
Café Royal Cultural Foundation Artist Grant

2004 - 2014, 2016
Faculty Recognition Award, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2013
Outstanding Achievement Award, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2005
Fellowship in Drawing, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY

1998, 1999
Summer Research Grant, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

1992
Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1989
Georgia Foundation Grant for Travel in Italy

1988
Clara Katherine Nelson Memorial Award for Distinction in Painting, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

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SELECTED VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS, LECTURES, AND RESIDENCIES

Artist in Residency, Lucera, Italy, funded by The Rotary Club of Lucera, May 2024.

Lecture, “Recent Work,” The Calandra Institute for the Study of Italian American Culture, New York, NY, October 2024.

Visiting Critic and Speaker, “Pioneering Urban Futures,” Cornell University School Architecture, New York, NY, December 2018.

Visiting Artist Lecture, Park Towne Place, hosted by InLiquid, Philadelphia, PA, July 2017.

Visiting Artist Lecture, “Walking as Creative Strategy,” Inventing Futures Labs, hosted by the Program of Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship, Wake Forest University, March 2016.

Visiting Artist Lecture, “Between Experience and Contemplation: Contemporary Art and the Concept(s) of Creative Urban Action(s),” Laboratorio Q Forum on Urban Actions at the School of Architecture, University of Seville, Spain, January 2016.

Travel Grant, Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE), sponsored by St. John’s University to participate in the ten-day seminar, “Consuming Istanbul: The Politics of Space and Spectacle,” Istanbul, Turkey, January 5 to 15, 2015.

Lecture, “Level of Engagement with Place: Cultural Collaboration in the Age of Globalization,” Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (with photographer Alex Morel and curator Parvez Mohsin), December 2014.

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025
Tolve, Floriana. “Luci e ombre della Daunia: A Lucera Opere dell’artista newyorchese, Paul Fabozzi,” La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, June 11, 2025.

2024
Salvatore, Alessandro. “Lanciato da Lucera il progetto di residenza d’artista, un ponte culturale tra Puglia e New York,” Foggia Today, May 27, 2024.

2023
Mattera, Joanne. Italianità: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience. New York, NY: Well Fed Artist Press, 2023.

2022
“Interview with Paul Fabozzi,” Kooness Magazine online, May 27, 2022.

2017
Papi, Liza, The Aesthetics of Art: Understanding What We See, Cognella, San Diego, CA

2016
Marcello, Neil, “Monumental Abstraction—Paul Fabozzi at Seraphin Gallery,” The Artblog: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, December 27, 2016

Moshin, Parvez, “The Pensive City: Transience and Convergence Beyond Space,” Paul Fabozzi Curved Locators
(exhibition catalog)

2013
Noble, Alastair, “Introduction,” Paths: Charting, Navigating, and Bridging
(exhibition catalog)

Fabozzi, Paul, “A Gathering of Memory and Light,” Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey
(exhibition catalog)

Schwartz, Chip, “AIGA Philadelphia Presents ‘MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps,’” Knight Foundation, March 7, 2013

2012
Newhall, Edith, “Site Specific,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2012

Wagner, Amanda V, “Site Specifics,” Philadelphia Daily News, September 14, 2012

Schwartz, Chip, “The Role of Abstraction Analyzed at L.G. Tripp Gallery,” Knight Foundation, May 17, 2012

2011
Parrish, Matthew, “NYC Artist Visits Paper+,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, July 24, 2011

Davidson, Margaret, "Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques," New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2011

Fabozzi, Paul, “Il Tempo di Corviale,” Humanities Review, volume 9, issue 1, spring 2011

Tierman, Alexander, "Minimal, Emotional, and Visceral in Old City," artblog, May 16, 2010

Newhall, Edith, “Lines and Spaces,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 2010

2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris, "100 New York Painters," Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2006

Bacon, Charlotte, “Ordinary Wonder,” Data Walks (exhibition catalog)

Sigler, Jeremy, “A Conversation in the Studio,” Data Walks (exhibition catalog), 2006

2003
Saccà, Annalisa, “Le voci della pietra,” Il filorosso: semestrale di cultura, #34, 2003

Sozanski, Edward J, “Abstractions Evoke a Sense of Place, from Experience or Lore,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 2003

Strauss, R.B., “In the Galleries,” AroundPhilly.com, March 7, 2003

2000
Saccà, Annalisa, “Paul Fabozzi e i luoghi della memoria/and the Places of Memory,” Marcature/Markings (exhibition catalog), 2000

1999
Selvaggi, Giuseppe, “New York ed il suo Polmone Pulsante: Il viaggio italiano di Paul Fabozzi,” Il Giornale d’Italia, October 7, 1999

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SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Bank of America

Brandywine Realty Trust

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC)

Fidelity Investments

Forest City Commercial Group

Frost Museum of Art

Geode Capital Management

Morgan Stanley

Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute

Neuberger Museum of Art

The New York Public Library

NYU Langone Art Collection

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Art

The University of Pennsylvania

Weatherspoon Art Museum

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998 - present
Professor of Fine Arts, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

2005 - 2007
Department of Fine Arts Chair, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

1995 - 2001, 2003 - 2008
Co-coordinator of the Rome Summer Program, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

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GALLERY AND CONSULTING AFFILIATIONS

G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY
Fine Art at Work, Inc., New York, NY
Boston Art, Boston, MA
Davis Editions, Tempe, AZ

Exhibitions

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Solo

2026
LIC Morphology, The Garage Art Center, Queens, NY; September 5 to 27, 2026 (forthcoming).‍

Reflection Point, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY

2025
Passaggi d’ombra, Utò Lo Spazio della Luce, Lucera, Italy.

2022 - 2023
Curved Locators, the Drawings, G. W. Einstein Company, online through Artsy

2022
The Architecture of Perception, Works on Paper, 2018–22, G. W. Einstein Company; online through Artsy

2020
Place, Translation, Variation, Davis Originals, online through Artsy

2019
Place, Translation, Variation, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA

2017
Foundations: An Exhibition Featuring Works from Paul Fabozzi's Curved Locator and Site Translations, Seraphin Gallery at The Yard, Philadelphia, PA

2016-2017
Curved Locators, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012
Site Translations, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Spectral Variants, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Spectral Variants: New Large Works, Atrium Gallery at 153 East 53rd Street, New York, NY

2007
Lines of Regression, University of Pennsylvania, Kelly Writers House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Data Walks: The Paintings, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA

Data Walks: The Installation, Carbon 14, Philadelphia, PA

2003
Le voci della pietra: Photographs 1998 – 2001, Polmone Pulsante Gallery, Rome, Italy

Rome: The Layers of Memory, Parallels Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000
The Rome Series, The School of Architecture Gallery, Louisiana Tech University,
Ruston, LA

Marcature/Markings, Polmone Pulsante Gallery, Rome, Italy

1999
Drawings, Polmone Pulsante Gallery, Rome, Italy

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Two-Person

2025
Linear Dialogues in Full Spectrum, Paul Fabozzi and Richard Keen, The Garage Art Center, online through Artsy

2012
Paul Fabozzi and Changha Hwang, Between Forms, Yace Gallery, Long Island City, NY

2001
Annette Cords and Paul Fabozzi, Investigations of Language and Place, InLiquid at Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

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Group

2024
A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by Their Italian Heritage, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT

The Hamptons Fine Art Fair, with G. W. Einstein Gallery, Southhampton, NY

2022
You Are Here, InLiquid at Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA

2021
IFPDA Print Fair, with G.W. Einstein Gallery, online through Artsy

2020
Recent Acquisitions, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2019
IFPDA Print Fair, with G.W. Einstein Gallery, Jacob K. Javits Center, New York, NY

Place: Exterior/Interior/Body/Mind, Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY

International Udstilling: Co-create and Connections Between Artists Around the World, Kunsthal Vejle, Nejle, Denmark

2018 - 2019
Geometry in Color, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

2018
If So, What? San Francisco, with Seraphin Gallery, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2017 - 2018
Making Connections: Artist Working in Queens, Henry de Ford Gallery at CitiBank, Long Island City, NY

2016
Art on Paper (featured artist with G.W. Einstein Company), Pier 35, New York, NY

2015
The Boston International Fine Art Show (with G.W. Einstein Company), Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

Art Busan: International Art Fair (with Gallery Ho), BEXCO Exhibition Center II, Busan, South Korea

Pagina: A Black and White Exhibition Celebrating the Printed Page, Antica Libreria Cascianelli, Rome, Italy

2014 - 2015
Artist’s Choice: Works by Gallery Artists, L.G. Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2014
The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair (with G.W. Einstein Company), Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2013
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY

The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair (with G.W. Einstein Company), Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

Spatial Translations, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Paths: Charting, Navigating, and Bridging, Simons Center Art Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey, Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St John’s University, Queens, NY

MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps, AIGA Philadelphia Space, Philadelphia, PA

2012
MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps, New York Public Library (Mulberry Street Branch), New York, NY

Documents, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010
Art/Value/Currency, The Pigeon Wing, London UK

Premiere: An Exhibition of Gallery Artists, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2009
InLiquid’s 10th Anniversary Show, Gallery 543 at URBN, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Soho Show-off: Penn Design New York, Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

2007 - 2008
Parris, New York, Philadelphia, Fuel Collection, Philadelphia, PA

2007
So This is Where it all Began, The Hudson Guild, New York, NY

Summer Survey 2007, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA

2006
The 18th Annual Works on Paper (with G.W. Einstein Company), The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2005 - 2006
Tracking and Tracing, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

2005
Urban Life, The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

The 17th Annual Works on Paper (with G.W. Einstein Company), The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

The Los Angeles Fine Art Fair (with G.W. Einstein Company), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Inside/Out, ISO Tower Lobby, Jersey City, NJ

Rethinking Landscape, PCAD Main Gallery, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA

The Energy of Creation, Anderson-Soule Gallery, Concord, NH

2002
Contemporary American Images All’Italiana, Walsh Library Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

2001
The Pierogi Flat Files, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

2000
Haulin’ Ass: Pierogi in L.A., The Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999
Pierogi 2000: The Flat Files, Rosenwald–Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

The Eighth Annual U.S. Artists (with G.W. Einstein Company), 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

1998
Pierogi 2000: New York Presents the Flat Files, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

Drawings, G.W. Einstein Company, New York, NY

Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, NY

1997 - 1998
Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1997
New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, The Corner House Gallery, Manchester, England

New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flat Files, The Gasworks Center for Contemporary Art, London, England