PAULA PRAEGER
Email: paua08@gmail.com
Exhibitions: (*Solo Show)
2024 The Ana, Issue #15 “Dawn”, Summer 2024, Morning Walks II #6
2021 “Textures, Forms, Patterns or Shapes,” Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2019 “Blue,” Webster Arts, St. Louis, MO
Juror: Andrea Pierro, director of Visiting Artists Program, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Received Award of Excellence
2019 “Red,” Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Juror: Sara Reisman, Executive and Artistic Director of the Shelley and David Rubenstein Foundation
2018 “The Print Effect (Small Works Big Impact),” Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
Juror: Lothar Osterburg, Artist and Master Printer
2018 “39th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition,” Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Juror: Tamryn McDermott: Artist and Director of Admissions, Tyler School of Art
2018 “Vacation Ideas,” Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
Juror: Jim Furlong, Director of Arts, Hudson Guild
2017 “Me, My Selfie and I,” Hudson Guild Gallery, New York, NY
Jurors: Jim Furlong, Director of Arts, Hudson Guild; Rick Krieger, Artist
2017 “Third Annual Hand Pulled Print Exhibition: The Current Practice in Printmaking,” Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Juror: Marina Ancona, Master Printer
2017 “38th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition,” Sidney Larson Gallery, Colunbia College, Columbia, MO
Juror: Ben Cameron, Artist
2016 “Standing Rock Benefit Exhibition,” Rogue Space, New York, NY
2016 “Open Orange 2016,” Valley Arts Firehouse Gallery, Orange, NJ
Jurors: Tricia Bloom, previously associate curator of exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, current curator of American art at New Jersey’s Newark Museum; Marie
Samuels, executive president of Artadia, an art and dialogue foundation in NYC, also serving on the acquisitions committee for the Parrish Art Museum, Long
Island, NY; Diedre Harris-Kelley, artist and co-director of the Romare Beardon Foundation
2016 “Impress 16,” Gloucestershire Printmaking Cooperative, GL, UK
2016 “37th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition,” Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Juror: Takuji Hamanaka, Artist
2015 “35th Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink,” Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, IN
Juror: Mark Pascale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago and concurrently Adjunct Professor of Art
in Print Media at School of the Art Institute
2015 “Poetry Scores Hawaii-Look Like What it Means,” University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI
Juror: Phil Sanders, Director and Master Printer at The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
2014 “Celebrating Print 2014,“ BBLA Gallery at Bohemian National Hall, New York, NY
2014 “33rd Nationl Print Exhibition at Artlink,” , Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, IN and The Sawtooth School for Visual Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Juror: Christine Reising, Professor of Art at Siena Heights University
2013 “Third Annual Juried Exhibition,” Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
Juror: Roberta Waddell, Curator and Art Historian, formerly Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library
2013 “33rd Annual National Print Exhibition at Artlink,” Auer Center for Arts and Culture, Fort Wayne, IN
Juror: Mary Bookwalter, retired University Professor of Art at Governors State University in Illinois
2013 “MGNE/Monotype Guild of New England, Inc., Third National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition,” Barrington Center for the Arts,
Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Juror: Mark Pascale, Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago
2011 “Brand 40 Works on Paper,” Brand Library, Glendale, CA
Juror: Peter Frank, art critic, Huffington Post, Adjunct Senior Curator, Riverside Art Museum
2010 "New Prints 2009/10 Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction," International Print Center New York, New York, NY
2009 "Grafisch Atelier Daglicht Exchange Show," Meulenstein Art Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2009 "New Prints 2009/Spring," International Print Center New York, New York, NY
Juror: Polly Apfelbaum, Artist
2008 "52nd Annual National Juried Print Exhibition," Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Juror: Kathleen Goncharov, Director of the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2007 "Prints USA 2007," Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Juror: Mark Pascale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago and Adjunct Professor of Art in
Print Media at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2007 "Watermark 2007," Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
Juror: Soni Martin, Professor of Art, Fayetteville State University, Department Performing and Fine Arts, Fayetteville, NC
2007 "Painted Tongue-Union of Art & Word," Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
Juror: Lanny Silverman, Curator of Exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2006 "25th National Print Exhibition 2006," Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Juror: Kathy Caraccio, Master Printer and Proprietor of K. Caraccio Printing Studio, New York, NY
2006 "Manhattan Graphics Center Faculty Show," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2006 "New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR," International Print Center New York, New York, NY and
Mailer Museum at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Ashland, VA
Jurors: Massimo Audiello, Director, Massimo Audiello Gallery; Greg Burnet, Master Printer; Christopher Gaillard, Vice President and Head of Contemporary Prints,
Sotheby's; Janice Oresman, Collector, Art Consultant and Chairman, IPCNY; Jessica Stockholder, Artist; Sarah Suzuki, Assistant Curator of Prints and Illustrated
Books, Museum of Modern Art
2006 "MGC 20th Year Anniversary Show," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2006 "Paula Praeger, Screenprints," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2005 "2005 Regional Small Works Painting Exhibition," The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
Jurors: Buzz Spector, Artist and Critical Writer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Adrienne Bea Smith, Painter, Educator,
Director, The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
2005 “New Prints 2005/Autumn,” International Print Center New York, NY and A & D Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jurors: Lothar Osterburg, Master Printer, Artist, and Professor; Nancy Princenthal, Critic and Writer; Samantha Rippner, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings
and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Lucas Schoormans, Director, Lucas Schoormans Gallery; Amy Sillman, Artist and Co-Chair, Painting MFA Program,
Milton Avery School of Visual Arts, Bard College; Catherine Woodard, Poet and Former President, Artists Space
2005 “Manhattan Graphics Center Faculty Show,” Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2005 “NewsArt: Art From Another Reality,” Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY
2005 “Paperworks,” B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
Juror: Faye Hirsch, Senior Editor, Art in America
2005 “The Manhattan Graphics Center Prints,” The New York Law School, New York, NY
2005 “Topographics: Recent Art Mapping Global, Local, Mental and Other Space,” Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
2004 “2004 Regional Small Works Painting Exhibition,” The Main Street Gallery Groton, NY
Jurors: Lori Ellis, Painter, Assistant Professor of Painting, S.U.N.Y., Cortland, NY; Adrienne Bea Smith, Painter, Educator, Director, The Main Street Gallery, Groton,
2004 “Errata: The Role of Errors and Misinterpretation in Art,” Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD
Juror: Thom Collins, Executive Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
2004 “Momentum: The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop,” EFA Studio Center, New York, NY
2004 “Watermark 2004-Works on Paper,” Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
2004 “25th Annual Paper in Particular National Exhibition,” Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Juror: David Leach, Professor, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2004 “Thought Patterns/Pattern and Ideas in Recent Painting and Drawing,” Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
2003 “Abstractions,” Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Juror: Charlotta Kotik, Chairman of the Department of Painting and Sculpture and Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003 “Modern Iconography: Symbols Public and Private,” Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
2003 "Visual Arts Alliance Twentieth Juried Open Exhibition," Bank of America Center, Houston, TX
Juror: Lynn McLanahan Herbert, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
2003 "5 Artist Invitational Show," Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA
2002 "Washington Printmakers National Small Works 2002," Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
Juror: Joann Moser, Senior Curator of Graphic Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2002 "Watermark 2002," Southeastern Community College, Whiteville, NC
Juror: Greg Hathaway, Artist/Potter
2002 "Marking Time," Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
Juror: Maremi Huff, Artist
2002 "Winter Works 2002," Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO
Juror: Susan Shatter, Teacher, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
2001 "7th National Juried Art Exhibition," Highland Cultural Center, Highland, NY
Juror: Cary S. Levine, Assistant to Senior Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000 “23rd National Print Biennial 2000,” Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Juror: Antonio Frasconi, Professor of Visual Arts, S.U.N.Y., Purchase, NY
2000 “12th Annual National Art Competition,” Kirksville, MO
Juror: Donald Kuspit, Professor of Philosophy and Art History, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, NY
1999 “17th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Juror: Donald Kuspit, Professor of Philosophy and Art History, S.U.N.Y., Stony Brook, NY
*1998 “Paula Praeger - Paintings and Prints,” 2/20 Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Just Prints,” 2/20 Gallery, New York, NY
Publications:
2001 "Her Mark 2002 Calendar," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jurors: Janet Bloch and Pamela Callahan
Bibliography:
Sarah Suzuki, "New Prints 2006/Summer: COLOR," IPCNY Essay, July 2006
Thomas Conners, "Printed Matter," Time Out Chicago, February 2-9, 2006
Nancy Princenthal, "New Prints 2005/Autumn," IPCNY Autumn Essay, November 2005
Zachary Lewis, "Painter, 4 other artists exhibit works," The Patriot-News, Week of 4/03
Renée Phillips, "Pleiades Gallery 17th Annual Juried Exhibition," Manhattan Arts International, July - August 1999
Awards:
Award of Excellence “Blue,” Webster Arts, St. Louis, MO
Honorable Mention, Monoprint, "Winter Works 2002," Eleanor Bliss Center for the Arts at the Depot, Steamboat Springs, CO, Juror: Susan Shatter,
Teacher, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 2002
Collections:
Bayerische Landesbank (Bank of Bavaria), New York, NY
Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
K. Caraccio Printing Studio, New York, NY
Robert Herskovitz, Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Ira Janow, New York, NY
The Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
Teaching Experience:
2005 Instructor, "Paper Lithography," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2003 Instructor, "Paper Lithography," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
2002 Instructor, "Paper Lithography," Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY
1999 Teaching Assistant, Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop Outreach Program, New York, NY
1995 - 1966 Art Teacher, New York City Public Schools, Bronx, NY, New York, NY
1980 Teacher, New York City Teacher Centers Consortium, “Art in the Elementary Curriculum,” Bronx, NY
1972 Guest Instructor, Art Education Workshop, Hunter College, New York, NY
Education:
1998 Printmaking Internship, K. Caraccio Printing Studio, New York, NY
1998-1978 Fashion Institute of Technology, The Art Students League Of New York, The New School, New York, NY, The Brooklyn Museum School,
Brooklyn, NY
1970 Master of Arts Degree, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1964 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA