Paul Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, the son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY.
Villinski's work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibition “Passage: A Special Project,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; “Second Lives: Re-purposing the Ordinary,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer redesigned and rebuilt into a solar-and wind-powered mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and the trailer was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY.
Corporate collections include Fidelity Investments; Microsoft; Progressive Insurance; ADP; McCann Erickson International; New York Life; Ritz-Carlton and many others. He has been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Serenbe Institute, GA; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; the Millay Colony, NY; the Ucross Foundation, WY; the Djerassi Foundation, CA; and the Villa Montalvo Arts Center, CA. Villinski has been reviewed in periodicals including ARTnews; Artforum; Art in America; Sculpture; Interior Design; Design Bureau; New York Magazine; and ID. Newspapers include the New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Los Angeles Times; Washington Post; Houston Chronicle; International Herald Tribune; Village Voice; Seattle Times; New Haven Register; Toronto Star; Times-Picayune and many others.
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XX | Twenty Year Exhibition
Group exhibition 2 Jun - 2 Jul 2022 -
Paul Villinski | Now
Special exhibition at High Line Nine 30 Apr - 31 May 2019 -
Paul Villinski | Paradigm
Solo exhibition 11 Sep - 11 Oct 2014 -
Paul Villinski | Passage
Solo exhibition 8 Sep - 15 Oct 2011
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Intersect Aspen 2023
Aspen, CO 1 - 4 Aug 2023Group presentation of works by: Tim Bavington Sara Genn Matt Merkel Hess Crystal Liu Paul VillinskiRead more -
Dallas Art Fair 2016
Dallas, TX 14 - 17 Apr 2016Group presentation of works by: Matt Kleberg Nancy Lorenz Paul Villinski Katia Santibañez David AylsworthRead more -
Texas Contemporary 2015
Houston, TX 1 - 4 Oct 2015GROUP Presentation of Works By: rubens ghenov kysa johnson Nancy lorenz Jason Middlebrook Laurie Reid KATIA SANTibañez Paul VillinskiRead more -
EXPO Chicago 2015
Chicago, IL 17 - 20 Sep 2015Three-Person Presentation of Works By: Paul Wackers AARON WAXLER PAUL VILLINSKIRead more
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Miami Project Art Fair 2014
Miami, FL 2 - 7 Dec 2014Group Presentation of Works By: kysa johnson Nancy lorenz david Rathman laurie reid paul villinski Paul WackersRead more -
Texas Contemporary 2014
Houston, TX 4 - 7 Sep 2014GROUP Presentation of Works By: kysa johnson kim mccarty Nancy lorenz cordy ryman Paul Villinski aaron waxlerRead more -
Art Market Hamptons 2014
Bridgehampton, NY 10 - 13 Jul 2014Group Presentation of Works By: David S. Allee Nancy Lorenz Cordy Ryman david Rathman paul villinski paul wackersRead more -
Dallas Art Fair 2014
Dallas, TX 11 - 13 Apr 2014Group Presentation of Works By: Frohawk two feathers Nancy lorenz kim mccarty david Rathman paul villinski aaron wexlerRead more
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Miami Project Art Fair 2013
Miami, FL 3 - 8 Dec 2013Group Presentation of Works By: emilie clark sharon louden Nancy lorenz kim mccarty david rathman andrew schoultz paul villinski paul wackers aaron wexlerRead more -
Texas Contemporary 2013
Houston, TX 10 - 13 Oct 2013GROUP Presentation of Works By: eric beltz emilie clark nicole cohen fROHAWK TWO FEATHERS carson fox Nancy lorenz SHARON LOUDEN Kim mccarty amy park katia...Read more
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Paul Villinski creates 1,000 aluminum can butterflies for Havana Biennial
Chadd Scott, See Great Art, November 24, 2024 -
Paul Villinski’s Sculptures Swoop and Swarm in ‘Flight Patterns’
Kate Mothes, Colossal, July 1, 2024 -
Paul Villinski’s “Flight Patterns” at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
Jesse James, StupidDope, July 1, 2024 -
Market Street Studio: Artists Amy Park and Paul Villinski Alight in Ellenville
Marie Doyon, Chronogram, January 20, 2022 -
Music takes flight at the Freeman School
Keith Brannon, Tulane University, October 18, 2018 -
Seducing Consciousness
Robert Preece, Sculpture Magazine, October 1, 2016 -
At the Katonah Museum, the Art of the Nest
Susan Hodara, The New York Times, April 22, 2016 -
ArtRx NYC: Villinksi’s Paradigm
Hrag Vartanian, Hyperallergic, September 23, 2014 -
Butterfly Machine: Paul Villinski at Morgan Lehman Gallery
Daniel Gauss, ARTE FUSE, September 21, 2014 -
Taking Conceptual Art on the Road
Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, October 18, 2009 -
Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum
Penelope Green, The New York Times, September 26, 2008 -
Our trash is this artist's treasure
Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2008