PAULA CROWN

1959 Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts

1980 Earned an A.B. in Management Science from Duke University, Magna Cum Laude

2009 Crown is appointed to President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

2012 Earned an MFA in painting and drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The artist lives and works in Aspen, CO and Chicago, IL

PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS

2021

EMANARE, New World Sympthony, Miami, FL

EMANARE, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY

CHALICE, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY

BRANDED, CowParade 2021, New York, NY

EMANARE, Intersect 21, Palm Springs, CA

2020

The Wide Awakes Studio Window Installation, Chicago, IL

WHAT ARE YOU FOR?, For Freedoms Public Art Installation

JOKESTER, Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

#solotogether (Messages for the City), Times Square, New York, NY; The Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC 

THOUGHTS & PRAYERS, HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE, LIAR LIAR, HUMBLE HUBRIS, For Freedoms Congress, Los Angeles, CA

2018 

THOUGHTS & PRAYERS, HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE, For Freedoms Public Art Installation, Chicago, IL; Cheyenne, WY; Los Angeles, CA 

JOKESTER 2, Miami Design District, Miami, FL 

JOKESTER, Upper Gondola Plaza, The Little Nell, Aspen, CO

FREEZING RAIN, Aurora Biennial, Dallas, TX

2015 

TRANSPOSITION: Over Many Miles, Miami Design District, Miami, FL

WALL-SPACE: The Non-Architecture of the Studio Wall, EXPO/Chicago, VIP Lounge, Chicago, IL

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020

Inside My Head: A Contemporary Self Portrait, Virtual Exhibition at Hebrew University Art Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel 

2018 

IamFOR, Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY

The Architecture of Memory, Dallas Contemporary, Venice, Italy

2017

SOLO TOGETHER, 10 Hanover, London, UK

2016 

FREEZING RAIN, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

BEARINGS DOWN, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX

2015 

The Paula Crown Affair, Holly Hunt with Marlborough Gallery, London, UK

THE SUBLIME AND THE CENTER: DIMENSIONS OF LANDSCAPE, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

2014 

Inside My Head: A Contemporary Self Portrait, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2013 

Phantasmagoria, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO

Inside My Head: A Contemporary Self Portrait, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO

 

 

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

The Nature of Women, Art She Says

2020

This is America | USA Today, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, NL

Sculpturally Distanced, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO

2019 

For Freedoms: Where Do We Go From Here? International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Masterpiece London Art Fair, London, UK 

2018

IN THIS HOUSE, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

Masterpiece London Art Fair, London, UK

2017 

American Genre: Contemporary Painting, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME

The Limelight Hotel Contemporary Art Collection, Ketchum, ID

Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX

MTV RE:DEFINE, Dallas, TX

2016 

EXPO/Chicago, Marlborough Gallery Booth, Chicago, IL

off the wall, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

FOR FREEDOMS, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

Mount Analogue, Darrow Contemporary at Performance Ski, Aspen, CO

Aspen Art Crush, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

2015 

Art Basel Miami Beach, Marlborough Gallery, Booth F6, Miami, FL

Independent Curators International, 40th Anniversary and Benefit Auction, New York, NY

Civilization and Its DiscontentsSAIC 150th Alumni Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL

2014 

Brain-Art Initiative, Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL

Inside Space, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL

2012 

Go To Pieces: Recent Graduates from SAIC, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY

 

COLLABORATIONS

2022

ASPENX Prada, performance skiwear design

2021

Together, a short film, National YoungArts Foundation

2020

Paula Crown x Christy Rilling for The Wide Awakes

2019

Sam’s, Snowmass Village, CO

2017

Holly Hunt x Paula Crown Atelier

Aspen Skiing Company Lift Tickets, Aspen, CO

The Limelight Hotel Collection, Snowmass, CO

The Limelight Hotel Collection, Ketchum, ID