Education
2023 MFA California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 MA Cultural Studies, University of Washington Bothell (UWB), WA
2014 BA Interdisciplinary Visual Arts, University of Washington, WA
2020 Coursework in Painting and Drawing, San Mateo Community College, San Mateo, CA 1991 Diploma in Fashion Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi, India
Exhibition Record
Spirit House, The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA (Upcoming) 2024
PLACE: Reckonings by Asian American Artists, ICA, San Jose, CA, 2024 (curated by Zoe Latzer, Associate Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary art, San Jose, CA and Judy Dennis, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA)
Southern Exposure Auction, San Francisco, CA, 2024
48 Pillars, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2024
Private Exhibition, Apple Museum, Cupertino, CA, 2024
Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL, 2023
Introductions 2023 Root Division, San Francisco, CA (Jurors: Jonathan Carver Moore, Founding Director and Gallery Owner, Naz Cuguoglu, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Programs at Asian Art Museum, PJ Gubatina Policarpio, Associate Director, Micki Meng) 2023
Social Memory: Sites of Remembrance, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, New York. (Curated by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective and Shilpi Chandra) 2023
Architecture in Contemporary Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (Jurors: Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena of Escher GuneWardena Architecture) 2022
Balancing Act Dogpatch Studios, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2022
you can hear the wind from beneath the floorboards, Root Division, San Francisco, CA (Curated by Katherine Jemima Hamilton, curator, writer and Shaelyn Hanes, curator, writer, educator, San Francisco, CA) (catalog) 2022 A selection of oil paintings, Redwood City Library, Redwood City, CA 2022
Open Circle, Lindsay Dirkx Brown Art Gallery, San Ramon, CA (curated by San Ramon based curator, writer and educator, Pallavi Sharma) 2022
Fluid Mutualism, California College of The Arts, San Francisco, CA (Juried) 2021
Personal Histories, Hubbell St. Galleries, San Francisco, CA (curated by Zoe Latzer, Associate Curator, San Jose Institute of Contemporary art, San Jose, CA) 2021 Approximations, Hubbell St. Galleries, San Francisco, CA (curated by Lauren Sorresso, Curator, San Francisco, CA) 2021
Composing The Future II, DiNapoli Gallery, San Jose, CA (Juror: Karen Gutfreund, Independent Curator, and Carolina Quintanilla, Curator, SOMarts, San Francisco, CA) (catalog) 2021
Solo Exhibition The Blue Sari Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA 2021
Composing The Future, Bankhead Theater, Livermore, CA (Jurors: Elizabeth Addison, artist, educator, curator, NCWCA Exhibitions Chair, CA, Anne Giancola, artist, muralist, Visual Arts Manager, Livermore Arts, Marianne McGrath, Art historian, Curator, Art Consultant, Owner, MKM Art Consulting, Los Gatos, CA) (catalog) 2020
Re-Imagining Our Footprint, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA 2020
Expressions 2020, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA (Juror: Andrea Schwartz, President, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA) 2019
Architecture and Drawing, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA (Jurors: Michael Azgour, artist, Bay Area, CA, and Robert Dvorak, artist, instructor, Bay Area, CA 2019
San Carlos Chamber of Commerce, San Carlos, CA 2018
Anniversary Show, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA (Juror: Elise DeMarzo, Director, Public Art Programs, City of Palo Alto, CA) 2016
Imagining America Conference Brochure 2016
Featured Artist, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA 2015
University of Washington Seattle, WA 2015
Seattle Print Arts, Seattle, WA 2014
Threaded Protests, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2014
Trees of Life University Friends Meeting, Seattle, WA 2014
The Seventeenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2014
Rug Commissions Gallery IMA, Seattle, WA 2014
Awards and Fellowships
2023 Lucas Artist California Fellow 2023, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA 2021 Departmental Scholarship, Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Martin Hinckley Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2011 Merit Award 2-D Design, Bellevue College, Bellevue, WA
Bibliography
“Conversations with Namita Paul,” Voyage LA, January 11, 2023
Women’s Caucus for Art, Featured Artist of the Month, January 2023, https://nationalwca.org/
Dhage, Vrushali. “Creative Expression Through Multiple Media,” India Currents, November 30, 2022. https://indiacurrents.com/creative-expression-through-multiple-media/
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Elizabeth Addison, Laura Abrams, Composing The Future, Northern California Women’s Caucus for The Arts, 2021. (Catalog)
American Kahani, Exhibition announcement with photograph, Bay Area, CA, July 1, 2021. “Unyielding.” United We Quilt, 2019 https://www.unitedwequilt.com/unyielding/ “Namita Paul Exhibits Unyielding at UW Bothell.” IAS News, April 20, 2016. https://www.uwb.edu/ias-news/april-2016/namita-paul-exhibits-unyielding
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