PAUL GARDÈRE
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education

​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
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awards, residencies + fellowships

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
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solo + two-person exhibitions

2026        Paul Gardère at EXPO Chicago, 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, 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 (Figge Art Museum), 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 
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selected group exhibitions

2026         Four Rooms: Selections From ICA Miami's Permanent Collection, ICA Miami, Miami, FL
2025          Art Basel Miami Beach, 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, Georgia
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
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
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traveling exhibitions

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.
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permanent collections + public works

Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum, Library Special Editions. Brooklyn, NY
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
Insitute 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 Archives. Newark, NJ
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
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selected press + publications

2025       "Paul Gardère’s ‘Second Nature’ celebrated his critical vision of history, spirituality and identity", The Haitian Times, Ruth Jean-Marie, October 30, 2025            
2025       "Paul Gardère's prescient eclecticism", Two Coats of Paint, Adam Simon, September 29, 2025
2025       "WSA's Duet Makes Mall Rats Of Us All", Elephant, Arimeta Diop, September 16, 2025
2025       "As the Fall Art Season Opens, New York Galleries Stay Stubbornly Optimistic", ARTnews, Harrison Jacobs and Daniel Cassady, September 3, 2025

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, September 1, 2025
2025       "A Haitian-American Artist's Many Lenses on Life," Natalie Haddad, Hyperallergic, February 23, 2025
​2025       "As the Canon Expands, The Business of Artists' Estates Booms," Maddie Klett, ARTnews, January 14, 2025
2025       "
Réflexions sur la critique d’art en Haïti (Reflections on art criticism in Haiti)," Gérald Alexis, Faire Monde, January 10, 2025 
2024       "Top 15 NJ Art Shows of 2024", Tris McCall, NJArts, December 17, 2024
2024       "
Haitian Art is Coming Into the International Spotlight. It's Not the First Time." Brian Boucher, Artnet, November 29 2024
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, Art Fair Review

2022       "​At Independent 20th Century, artists who pushed material boundaries get their dues, belatedly," Benjamin Sutton, The Art Newspaper, September 9, 2022, Art Fair Review
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" Book Review 
2002        “Nexus 2: Transformation and Transfiguration,” Joyce B. Korotkin, New York Arts Magazine, January 2002, Exhibition Review
2001        The Miami Herald, Elisa Turner, April 8, 2001, Exhibition Review
2001        “Caribbean Delights,” Steve Ellman, City Link, Miami, March 21, 2001, Exhibition Review
2001        "Instructional Resources Haitian Art: Exploring Cultural Identity," Anne Marie Hayes and Michelle Robinson, Art Education, vol. 54, no. 1, 2001, pp. 25–32. Journal Article 
2000        Peintres Haitiens, Gerald Alexis, Éditions Cercle d’Art, Art Volume
2000        “Paul Gardère at Jersey City Museum,” Reagan Upshaw, Art in America , January 2000, Exhibition review 
1999        “Small Wonders: Metro Show Features Trends in Motion,” Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, Nov. 21, 1999, Exhibition Review
1999        “On the Context and Work of Paul Gardère,” Alejandro Anreus, Jersey City Museum, Exhibition Catalogue 
1999        “Compare and Contrast,” Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, April 19, 1999, Exhibition Review
1998        “Kongo Criollo,” Holland Cotter, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 1998, Exhibition Review
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, Artist Highlight
1997         Tracing the Spirit: Ethnographic Essays on Haitian Art, Karen McCarthy Brown, Davenport Museum of Art and The University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, Exhibition Catalogue
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, Exhbition Volume
1995        “Haitian Artists’ Colony Flourishes in Queens,” Gary Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, April 8, 1995, Exhibition Review
1993        “Portrait,” Carl Hazlewood, Aljira Review Preview, Spring 1993
1993        “The Kuumba Principle,” Eileen Watkins, The Star Ledger (Newark), Jan. 14, 1993
1991        “From the Studio,” Dorothy Desir-Davis, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Exhibition Brochure
1991        “Tradition and Contemporary Thought,” Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 1991
1991        “Spirituality, Magic, Identity,” Michael Brenson, The New York Times, Jan.25,1991, Exhibition Review 
1990        “From the Common Ground,” Martha Stevenson, Art in General, Exhibition Brochure
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, Feb. 15, 1987, Exhibition Review
1985        Haitian Art: The Legend and Legacy of the Naïve Tradition, L.G. Hoffman, Service Press, Davenport, IA, Art Volume
1985        "At Home at Work," Mary Daniels, Chicago Tribune, Jan. 27, 1985, Article
1984        “Haitian Artists Celebrate Creativity,” Helen Kohen, Miami Herald, April 8, 1984, Exhibition Review 
1984        “Haitian Eyes,” Dr. Paula Harper, Miami News, March 30, 1984, Exhibition Review
1984        Art in America, Michael Bonesteel, Dec. 1984, Exhibition Review
1983        “The Situation of Art in Haiti,” Grace Sills, American Artist, June 1983, Exhibition Review
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Picture
Untitled, c. 2008, approx 6 x 9 inches, mixed media collage fragment (Multiple Narratives)
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  • About
  • CV
  • SELECTED WORKS
    • Mixed Media Painting
    • Works on Paper
    • Limited Ed: Upon a Time
  • Catalogue Raisonné
  • Contact