Paul Catanese is a hybrid media artist who blurs the lines between the fine, performing, and media arts. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, and the New Museum, among others. His artwork can be found in collections including the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, the Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum. Catanese served as President of the New Media Caucus from 2009-14, and is currently Director of Graduate Study for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, where he holds the rank of Professor.

Paul Catanese (b. 1975; Huntington, NY) is a hybrid media artist who blurs the lines between the fine, performing, and media arts. Creating a wide array of works including installations, performances, videos, sound installations, projections, net.art, and print media, Catanese has exhibited at numerous institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum, SFMOMA Artists Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE Festival, New Forms Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art.

Catanese has participated in residencies at SPACES, Signal Culture, PLAYA, Goldwell Museum, Central School Project, Kala Art Institute, and universities throughout the nation and abroad; he has been awarded commissions from Rhizome and Turbulence, and grants from the Illinois Arts Council and New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2014, he was awarded an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and in 2018/19 named the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Colgate University. His artwork can be found in collections including the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, the Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum.

Catanese is the author of Director’s Third Dimension (2001), a book on real-time three-dimensional programming techniques for interactive multimedia, and the co-author of Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional, and Hybrid Techniques (2012), a book that examines the rapid evolution of traditional printmaking to incorporate computer controlled industrial tools such as laser cutters & CNC routers.

He earned an MFA in Art & Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2000 and a BA in Theater at SUNY Geneseo in 1997. Prior to his Columbia College faculty appointment, he was Assistant Professor of New Media at San Francisco State University from 2003-2008; he has also taught at SAIC, Harold Washington College and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Catanese served as President of the New Media Caucus from 2009-14, and is currently Director of Graduate Study for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, where he holds the rank of Professor.

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