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Paul Catanese is a Hybrid Media Artist whose diverse range of works include installation, performance, sound, video, and print media. His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and ISEA. Catanese was awarded an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2014), named the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Artist-In-Residence at Colgate University (2018/19), and awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Poland (2024) to research the intersection of artificial intelligence and print media. He authored Director’s Third Dimension (2001) and co-authored Post-Digital Printmaking (2012). Catanese is a Full Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago. Collections include the Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art.


Paul Catanese (b. 1975, USA) is a Hybrid Media Artist who blurs the lines between the fine, performing, and media arts through a wide array of artworks including installations, performances, videos, experimental opera, projections, net.art, virtual reality, electronic artists books, and print media. Catanese has exhibited at numerous institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Carraigeworks, Disjecta, Terrain Biennial, Stuttgart Filmwinter, FILE, New Forms Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art. He has been awarded residencies at the Institute for Electronic Art at Alfred University, Kala Art Institute, SPACES, Signal Culture, PLAYA, Goldwell Open Air Museum, and universities throughout the United States and abroad; commissions from Rhizome and Turbulence; and grants from the City of Chicago, Illinois Arts Council, and New York Foundation for the Arts. An Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2014) provided support for Visible From Space, an exhibition seen by over 35,000 visitors at the Chicago Cultural Center, described in Furtherfield by Patrick Lichty as a hybrid drawing dirigible telepresence opera. Catanese was named the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Artist-in-Residence at Colgate University (2018-19) which culminated in an ensemble production of his multi-modal opera: Century of Progress / Sleep at the Ho-Tung Visualization Lab Planetarium and the publication of a studio recording on LP record.

Most recently, Catanese was named a Fulbright Scholar to Poland (2024), based at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Art in Wrocław to research the intersection of artificial intelligence and print media. He authored Director’s Third Dimension (2001), a book on real-time 3D programming techniques for interactive media, and co-authored Post-Digital Printmaking: CNC, Traditional, and Hybrid Techniques (2012), a book examining the rapid evolution of traditional printmaking to incorporate computer controlled industrial tools such as laser cutters and CNC routers. He earned an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000) and a BA in Theater from SUNY Geneseo (1997). Catanese served as President of the New Media Caucus for two terms (2009-14), and is currently Director of Graduate Studies for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago, where he holds the rank of Professor. His artwork can be found in collections including the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, Rhizome Artbase, 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 of American Art.


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