education
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1972 Hunter College, New York, NY, MFA Painting
1967 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, BFA Painting 1960-63 Art Students League, New York, NY |
awards, residencies + fellowships
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1998 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting
1993-94 Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Artist-in-Residence 1993 Lila Acheson Wallace/Arts International at Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny, France, Artist-in-Residence 1991 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, New York, NY 1991-92 New York State Council on the Arts Award, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens NY 1989-90 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Artist-in-Residence. 1966 Yale University Norfolk School of Music and Art, New Haven, CT, Artist-in-Residence |
solo + two-person exhibitions
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2026 Armory Focus 2026, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2026 EXPO Chicago 2026: Magenta Plains, Chicago, IL 2025 Paul Gardère: Second Nature, Magenta Plains, New York, NY 2024 Paul Gardère: Vantage Points, The Cooper Union Stuyvesant Fish House, New York, NY Repossession: Didier William and Paul Gardère, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2022 Paul Gardère & Didier William, Soft Network, New York, NY Soft Network Presents: Paul Gardère, Independent 20th Century, New York, NY 2017 Paul Gardère: Goudou Goudou, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Paul Gardère: Multiple Narratives II, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY 2007 The Visual Semantics of Diaspora: Paul Gardère, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 2001 Paul Gardère: Multiple Narratives, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 1999 Paul Gardère: Recent Works, 1995-1998, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1997 The Work of Haitian Artist Paul Claude Gardère, Le Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1996 Giverny Revisited, Perspective Fine Arts Inc, New York, NY 1995 Gardens on Paper, Wendy S. Hoff, New York, NY 1994 An Inner Passage: The Garden as Inner Reality, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 1991 Sculptural Art: Raúl Acero & Paul Gardère, Wendell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1992 New Works by Paul Gardère, Miller Gallery, Jamaica Arts Center, Queens, NY 1987 Paul Claude Gardère, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY 1985 Voici Haiti: Paul Claude Gardère, Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, IA 1984 Paintings and Drawings by Paul Claude Gardère, Paul Waggoner Gallery, Chicago, IL 1983 Paul Claude Gardère et Edouard Duval-Carrié, Musee d’Art Haitien du Collège St. Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1982 Paul Claude Gardère, Galerie Marassa, Petion Ville, Haiti 1981 Paul Claude Gardère, Galerie Marassa, Petion Ville, Haiti 1980 Announcing: Paul Claude Gardère, Le Centre d’Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
selected group exhibitions
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2026 Je t'aime... quand même, Gladwell Projects, Paris, FR (coming October 18)
10 Year Anniversary, Magenta Plains, New York, NY Four Rooms: Selections From ICA Miami's Permanent Collection, ICA Miami, Miami, FL 2025 Art Basel Miami Beach 2025, Magenta Plains, Miami Beach, FL From The Studio: Fifty Eight Years of Artists-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Duet, Water Street Projects, WSA Building, New York, NY Roots and Reverence, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA 2024 Charismatic Goods, Canada Gallery, New York, NY Surrealism and US: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX 2023 Anything can pass before the eyes of a person, Derosia Gallery, New York, NY Art of the Americas, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2020 Young Artists: One, Fridman Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Diaspora Expressions, Haitian Embassy to the United State of America, Washington D.C. The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY 2014 Black and Gray, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Haitian Art Excerpts: From Renaissance to Diaspora, Kresge Gallery, Berrie Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ 2009 Courants Chauds, Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien (MUPANAH), Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2005 Works on Paper, The 17th Annual Armory Show, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Works on Paper, The 16th Annual Armory Show, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY The Collector’s Show, Works on Paper, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints, Gallery Artists, Philadelphia, PA Small Works International, The Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Upon a Time, Book Installation, Miami Art Fair, Raphael Fodde Editions Letterpress Showcase, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY 2001 Highlights from the Collection, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Nexus II: Transformation/Transfiguration, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY Marks of the Soul, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 2000 Offspring: Artists Celebrate the Child, BHMS, Brooklyn, NY 1999 Family, Fission, and Fusion: Hispaniola, Imarisha Art House, Brooklyn, NY 1998 Kongo Criollo, Taller Boricua Gallery, New York, NY A Brooklyn Salon, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Three Caribbean Artists, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery, Kean College, Union, NJ 1995 Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 1993 Kwanzaa: Creativity, The Kuumba Principle, Gallery II Aljira Contemporary Arts Center, Newark, NJ Recent Acquisitions: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Aljira Fine Art Auction, Gateway Center, Newark, NJ 1991 Double Take, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellows, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY From the Studio: Artists-in-Residence, 1989-90, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 1990 Food: From Pleasure to Politics, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY Selections, Artists Space & Aljira Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY Images from the Common Ground, Art in General, New York, NY 1989 Nexus, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY Déjà vu: Haitian Influence in Contemporary American Art, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY 1988 Survival, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR Current Investigations, Triplex Theatre Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY Art from the African Diaspora: Continuance, Aljira Contemporary Arts Center, Newark, NJ 1987 With and Without Acclaim: International Black and Hispanic Artists, Aljira Contemporary Arts Center, Newark, NJ Images of Latin American Culture: Art and Artifacts, Gray Art Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 1986 Caribbean Art / African Currents, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY Trends, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY 1985 Twenty First Annual Art Show: Caribbean Art: African Currents, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY 1983 Under the Spell, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Haiti: An Exhibit of Recent Haitian Works of Art, Bank of Boston Exhibition Space, Boston MA 1981 Esposicion Casa Francia, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1976 Brooklyn 1976, Community Gallery at The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Inaugural Show, Towers Gallery, New York, NY Inaugural Show, Deitcher-O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY |
traveling exhibitions
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2012-16 Restoring the Spirit: Celebrating Haitian Art
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL Pomona College Art Museum, Claremont, CA 1999-2000 18th Annual Metro Show City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Monmouth County Library System, Manalapan, NJ B. Beamsderfer Gallery, Highland Park, NJ Johnson Free Public Library, Hackensack, NJ Palmer Museum, Springfield, NJ 1995-97 Masterworks in Haitian Art from The Davenport Museum of Art Davenport Museum of Art (Figge Art Museum), Davenport, IA Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK California State University, Los Angeles, CA Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX 1984 Through Haitian Eyes: a benefit exhibition for The Musée d'Art Haitien in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Bacardi Gallery, Miami, FL Meridian House International, Washington, D.C. |
permanent collections + public works
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Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Library Special Editions. Brooklyn, NY The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA The Columbus Museum. Columbus, GA Eglise de St. Nicolas. Kenscoff, Haiti Eglise St. Trinité. Port-au-Prince, Haiti Figge Art Museum. Davenport, IA Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University. Ithaca, NY Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL Kenyon College Collection. Gambier, OH Le Centre d’Art. Port-au-Prince, Haiti Brooks Museum of Art. Memphis, TN Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, WI Musee d’Art Haitien du College St. Pierre. Port-au-Prince, Haiti Museum of Modern Art, Library. New York, NY New Orleans Museum of Art. New Orleans, LA Newark Museum of Art, Library. Newark, NJ Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. New York, NY Smithsonian American Art Museum, Special Collections Library. Washington, DC Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO The Studio Museum in Harlem. New York, NY Yale University Beinecke Library. New Haven, CT Zimmerli Art Museum: The Jersey City Museum of Art Collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ |
selected press + publications
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2026 "Highlights From the Armory Show 2026", Paul Laster, Art & Object, October 1, 2026
2026 "The Best Booths at the Armory Show, From Ghostly Afterimages to ‘Gentle Destruction,'" Maximilíano Durón. ARTnews, September 25 2026 "Emergence in the Blur." Milo Bosh. Basquiat Loves Company, 20 April 2026 "The Phillips Collection Receives Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago 2026," Editorial Team, East City Art, April 14 2025 "Where Hope for Visual Artist Widline Cadet Resides." Emilie Boone, Caribbean Cultural Institute, Perez Art Museum Miami, October 2025 "Paul Gardère’s ‘Second Nature’ celebrated his critical vision of history, spirituality and identity", Ruth Jean-Marie, The Haitian Times, October 30 2025 "Paul Gardère's prescient eclecticism", Two Coats of Paint, Adam Simon, September 29 2025 "WSA's Duet Makes Mall Rats Of Us All", Arimeta Diop, Elephant, September 16 2025 "As the Fall Art Season Opens, New York Galleries Stay Stubbornly Optimistic", ARTnews, Harrison Jacobs and Daniel Cassady, September 3 2025 "We Know You’re Preparing for the Onslaught, so Here’s a List of 15 Solo Gallery Shows Worth Seeing in New York This Month", Karly Quadros, CULTURED, September 1 2025 "A Haitian-American Artist's Many Lenses on Life," Natalie Haddad, Hyperallergic, February 23 2025 "As the Canon Expands, The Business of Artists' Estates Booms," Maddie Klett, ARTnews, January 14 2025 "Réflexions sur la critique d’art en Haïti (Reflections on art criticism in Haiti)," Gérald Alexis, Faire Monde, January 10 2024 "Top 15 NJ Art Shows of 2024", Tris McCall, NJArts, December 17 2024 "Haitian Art is Coming Into the International Spotlight. It's Not the First Time." Brian Boucher, Artnet, November 29 2024 Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940, editor Maria Elena Ortiz, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Delmonico Books, D.A.P. New York, Exhibition Volume 2022 "The Best Booths at Independent 20th Century," Tessa Solomon, ARTnews, September 10 2022 "At Independent 20th Century, artists who pushed material boundaries get their dues, belatedly," Benjamin Sutton, The Art Newspaper, September 9 2022 "Paul Gardère's Syncretic Modernism", Will Fenstermaker, Independent 20th Century Exhibition essay 2017 The New Yorker, New York, NY, Skoto Gallery Exhibition highlight 2015 Arts and Religions of Haiti: How the Sun Illuminates under Cover of Darkness, LeGrace Benson, Ian Randall Publishers, 328 pp. 2010 "Hope for Haiti," Jan Gardner, The Boston Globe, Nov 28, 2010, Book Review 2010 Poets for Haiti, Kim Triedman, Yileen Press, New York, NY, 2010, Art & Poetry Volume 2009 “Courants Chauds”, Yolanda Wood, Exhibition Catalogue 2008 “What is Hot in New York”, Chan Li, Visions Magazine, Beijing, China, Exhibition Review 2008 The New Yorker, New York, NY, Exhibition highlight 2003 “Artist Book Beat,” Nancy Princenthal, Art on Paper, May-June, 2003, "Upon A Time" 2002 “Nexus 2: Transformation and Transfiguration,” Joyce B. Korotkin, New York Arts Magazine, January 2001 The Miami Herald, Elisa Turner, April 8 2001 “Caribbean Delights,” Steve Ellman, City Link, Miami, March 21 2001 "Instructional Resources Haitian Art: Exploring Cultural Identity," Anne Marie Hayes and Michelle Robinson, Art Education, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 25–32 2000 Peintres Haitiens, Gerald Alexis, Éditions Cercle d’Art 2000 “Paul Gardère at Jersey City Museum,” Reagan Upshaw, Art in America , January 2000 1999 “Small Wonders: Metro Show Features Trends in Motion,” Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, November 21 1999 “On the Context and Work of Paul Gardère,” Alejandro Anreus, Jersey City Museum 1999 “Compare and Contrast,” Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, April 19 1998 “Kongo Criollo,” Holland Cotter, The New York Times, November 13 1997 “Writers and Artists Speaking on the Frontier,” Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, Number 54: A Publication of the Americas Society, New York City, Spring 1997 Tracing the Spirit: Ethnographic Essays on Haitian Art, Karen McCarthy Brown, Davenport Museum of Art and The University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA 1996 Consider the Alternatives: 20 Years of Contemporary Art at Hallwalls, editor Ronald Ehmke with Elizabeth Licata, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Inc., Buffalo NY, pp. 261, 271-272 1995 “Haitian Artists’ Colony Flourishes in Queens,” Gary Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, April 8 1993 “Portrait,” Carl Hazlewood, Aljira Review Preview, Spring 1993 “The Kuumba Principle,” Eileen Watkins, The Star Ledger (Newark), January 14 1991 “From the Studio,” Dorothy Desir-Davis, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Exhibition Brochure 1991 “Tradition and Contemporary Thought,” Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, November 26 1991 “Spirituality, Magic, Identity,” Michael Brenson, The New York Times, Jan.25 1990 “From the Common Ground,” Martha Stevenson, Art in General 1989 “Nineteen Ninety Now: The Arrival of the Haitian Gods in New York City Art,” Robert Farris Thompson, Jamaica Art Center, Essay 1987 “Newark; ‘Afro-Diaspora’ Show, ‘With and Without Acclaim’,” William Zimmer, The New York Times, Febuary 15 1985 Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naïve Tradition, L.G. Hoffman, Service Press, Davenport, IA 1985 "At Home at Work," Mary Daniels, Chicago Tribune, January 27 1984 “Haitian Artists Celebrate Creativity,” Helen Kohen, Miami Herald, April 8 1984 “Haitian Eyes,” Dr. Paula Harper, Miami News, March 30 1984 Art in America, Michael Bonesteel, December 1983 “The Situation of Art in Haiti,” Grace Sills, American Artist, June 
Untitled, c. 2008, approx 6 x 9 inches, mixed media collage fragment (Multiple Narratives)
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