BIO
Paul Cava is a photo-based artist who is known for his sensual and emotionally driven collage work. Concentrating on the human figure and body, Cava’s work speaks to the most intrinsic of human concerns, love and loss.
Paul Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe, and his work has been collected by a broad range of private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, and The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
His work has been featured in many publications including Eyemazing Magazine and Das Magazin. Cava was a recipient of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In 2005, the German publisher Galerie Vevais, published “Walt Whitman / Paul Cava , Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass” – a bold union of Whitman’s erotic poems and Cava’s art work.
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology - MFA, 1975
Richmond College CUNY, BA, 1972
The New School for Social Research, 1969
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Paul Cava / Photosensualis, Woodstock, NY
2008 Paul Cava / New and Selected Works, Gallery 339, Philadelphia., PA
2005 Paul Cava / Children of Adam, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA (book)
2001 Paul Cava / Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1997 Paul Cava / Drawings and Paintings, Millersville University of PA,
1985 Paul Cava / Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Paul Cava / Collages, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
1978 Paul Cava / Contemporary Collage, Gallery One, Boston, MA
1977 Paul Cava / Photographics Gallery, New Canaan, CT
1976 Paul Cava / Mancini Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 The Streets of Philadelphia, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2008 When Photography & Printmaking Collide, Free Library of Philadelphia
2006 It’s Very Difficult To Keep The Line Between The Past and The Present, ClampArt, NYC
2006 Who’s Afraid of the Dark, AnamorFose, Kortrijk, Belgium
2005 Fifteen Photographers, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Tatouage, Breda Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
2002 The Peter Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum
2002 Group Show, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2001 In Our Own Backyard, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2000 A New View, The Noyes Museum of Art, NJ
1999 Contemplation, Abington Art Center, PA
1998 Photo Synthesis, The Philadelphia Art Alliance
1997 The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Complexity and Contradiction, Philadelphia College of Textiles, PA
1994 Tradition and the Unpredictable, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue/book)
1989 Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1988 Twining Gallery, NYC
1984 The Morris Gallery, PA Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1983 Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, NYC
1983 Santa Fe Center of Photography, Santa Fe, NM
1983 Allan Frumkin Gallery (Chicago Art Expo), Chicago, Il
1982 Photocollage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1982 Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
1979 The Altered Photograph, P.S.1, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2009 Eyemazing Issue 03, 2009, Paul Cava Interview (Tintype Collection)
2006 Eyemazing Issue 02, 2006 (Cover) 10 page feature with interview (cover)
2005 Walt Whitman & Paul Cava, Children of Adam (book)
2001 Paul Cava, Recent Work, Seraphin Gallery (exhibition catalogue)
1999 Love and Desire, Curated and edited by William Ewing (book)
1997 Paul Cava, Paintings and Drawings, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, PA
1994 Tradition And The Unpredictable, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue)
1988 Searching Out The Best, PA Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
1982 Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (catalogue)
AWARDS
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, 1981
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist’s Fellowship, 1999
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Peter Bunnell Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Allan Chasanoff Collection, Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
