Paul Clay
151 First Ave., #84 New York, NY 10003
212.995.5035 paulclay@fictive.net

BIOGRAPHY

Paul Clay is a visual artist and curator who works in a wide variety of media. His perspective comes from an early interest in anthropology and social change. Recent projects include "Palace of Contemplation, 5 Sunsets and 5 Dawns" Cairo Opera House Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2005; "Gai Tong Ap Guong" Peripheral City: City of Refuge. Chinatown, New York, 2005; "NYDF (al trabajo a la casa)" Une Promesse de Malheur, Galleria Arte de Mexico, Mexico City, 2005; "The Triumph of Romanticism" Word Wack, Maxwell Fine Art, Peekskill, New York, 2005; “When We Came” The Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art, Peekskill New York, 2004; “What Makes Today's Home so Secure, So Appealing” amBUSH, Van Brunt Gallery, New York New York, 2004; "You are Here" at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Soho, 2003; the video artwork "future.surface.(Text)ure" for Art in General - at the 2003 Armory Show; the live video work "Dis-Play", presented at the 10 year anniversary of the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna in November 2002, and at Austrian art institution Magazin 4, in July 2002; Curation of "winter.chill" involving live audio and video artists at New York's apexart for "sans an exhibition", December 2002; Curation of seven video artists in the "Brewster Project 2002"; "Fictive Net Porn" a project involving over 70 contemporary artists, writers, and theorists from around the world creating web based artworks about the issue of pornography on the net, launched at the point art galley in New York in November of 2001, (on line permanently at www.fictive.net/porn); "Fictive Advertising" a two page culture-hack subvertisement in NY ARTS magazine, October 2001. He did set and live video design for David Dorfman's "To Lie Tenderly" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in December, 2000. He designed the set for the Pulitzer prize winning Broadway Musical Rent, 1997. He served as visual advisor on Tom Noonan's feature film "What Happened Was...", (94 Grand Jury Prize, Sundance and Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International Film Festival.) He received a "Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular" Award from Tibor Kalman for his redesign of the marquee and exterior of the Nederlander theater.

He has been reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, The London Times, Time Out (New York and London), The Guardian of London, Tema Celeste, Print, Zingmagazine, and NY ARTS magazine, and has also received numerous awards including the Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular, Manchester Evening News Theatre Award, National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellow, Drama Desk, and Bessie award.

He is the founder of Fictive (www.fictive.net), and is Director of Programing and Development for the Artists Alliance Inc. - a non profit arts organization connecting contemporary art and local community, based in New York's Lower East Side. He is also Gallery Director for CUCHIFRITOS - AAI's not for profit art gallery/project space - located inside New York City's Essex Street Food Market. He has served as a panelist for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Manhattan Community Arts Fund. He also currently serves on the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art's Advisory Committee, the Corazon de Charas Committee and the Organizational Structure Committee for the Armando Perez Cultural Center.