Zoe Paul Bio — blank projects

Portrait of the artist by Marco Argüello | Courtesy of Wallpaper

^{Photo: Marco Argüello | Courtesy of Wallpaper}

Born in London to South African parents and raised between Greece and England, Zoë Paul’s tri-cultural upbringing informs her investigation of the boundaries between the private and public as well as the relationship between artist and community. A sculptor and painter working in a variety of mediums including weaving, ceramics and beaded curtains, Paul revisits tradition via material and process, not to efface history but simply to reexamine it. Her works incorporate styles of picture-making from across history—ancient cave paintings, Byzantine iconography, classical Greek vases, as well as the digital pixels that compose virtual reality. She challenges prevailing ideas about ‘craft’ or femininity by peeling away the layers that time and convention have built. The ideas of labor and craftsmanship thus hold double meaning, pointing towards the process but also carrying a direct connection to matter and the maker.

Zoë Paul (b.1987) completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 2012. To date, she has had solo exhibitions in institutions across London, New York, Athens, Brussels, most recently Frieze’s No. 9 Cork Street, London (2022); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019 - 2021); Galerie de Sèvres in Paris (2020); The Intermission in Piraeus, Greece (2020); La Loge, Brussels (2019); and Spike Island, Bristol, UK (2018). She has participated in several group shows, including; How Long is Now at Israel Museum (2021); Recyclage/Surcyclage at Fondation Villa Datris in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France (2020); Landlord Colours: On Art, Economy, and Materiality at Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, USA (2019) and Infinity Has its Limits at SALTS in Basel (2018).

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curriculum vitae

1987 Born in London, UK

Lives and works in Athens, Greece

education

2010-12 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London

2006-09 BA, Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts

solo exhibitions

2023 Under Two Suns, Odunpazarı Modern Museum, Eskişehir, Turkey

2023 lO, blank projects, Cape Town, South Africa

2022 Shadows over the bright and darkened lands of the earth, No.9 Cork Street/blank projects, London, UK

2020 Zoë Paul, Galerie de Sèvres, Paris, France

2020 Full Moon Rising, Barronian/Xippas Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2020 Η Ζαργάνα μου, The Intermission, Piraeus, Greece

2019 Shadows over the bright and darkened lands of the earth, The Modern Window, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2019 Despina, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium

2018    Wild Wolf, Man and Fish, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland, UK

2018 La Perma Perla Kraal Emporium, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

2018 Drawings, Superdeals, Brussels, Belgium

2017 La Perma Perla Kraal Emporium, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2016 Solitude and Village, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2015 Solo, The Breeder Playroom, Athens, Greece

2014 A Goat called Hermès, curated by Michelangelo Corsaro, NAM Projects, Milan, Italy

2014 LaTraCom, Ricou Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2013 Topic, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

2011 Thalasseum, Cole, London, UK

2010 Pass Quietly, Cole, London, UK

group exhibitions

2023 Shades of Daphne, Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

2022 Epistemologies of the Sun, Rebecca Cahmi Gallery, Athens, Greece

2022 A Midsummer Nights’s Dream, Alkinois, Athens, Greece

2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, USA

2021 How Long is Now, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

2021 Fragmented Bodies, AlbertzBenda, New York, USA

2021 Voyages Immobiles, La Poste du Louvre, Paris, France

2021 Athens Design Forum, Athens, Greece

2021 Receptacles, Alkinois 6, Athens, Greece

2021 Ceramicarpet, Barronian Xippas, Brussels, Belgium

2021 Recyclage/Surcyclage, Espace Monte Christo, Paris, France

2021 Revenir Pour Voir L’Apres, Le Cyclop, Milly-La-Forêt, France

2021 Human Conditions of Clay, Chapter, Wales, UK

2020 Hydra School Project, Hydra Island, Greece

2020 Recyclage/Surcyclage, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France

2020 New Saints, Waldberger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium

2019 Landlord Colours: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, USA

2019 Les Chemins du Sud une Théorie du Mineur, Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées - Méditerranée, Serignan, France

2019 In A Waiting Room, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK

2019 Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II Department of Carving and Modelling: Form and Volume, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Christina Guerra Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2018 Entangled Tales, Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania

2018 Infinity Has its Limits, SALTS, Basel, Switzerland

2018 Textile Abstraction, Casa Riegner, Bogotá, Colombia

2018 Paroikia, Παροκοía, Company Gallery, New York, USA

2018 Marzana, Yours Again, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens, Greece

2017 An incantation fixed at its culminating point, Inês G. Cardoso, Galeria Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal

2017 Occupations of Uninhabited Space, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria

2017 NP or the Possibility of Life, curated by locus Athens, Athens, Greece

2017    Grasping a concept is mastering the use of a form, curated by Beatriz Ortega, Casa Ecendida, Madrid, Spain

2016 The Equilibrists, organized by New Museum and DESTE Foundation, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Helga Christoffersen with Massimiliano Gioni, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

2016 Gossip, Les Urbaines, curated by Elise Lammer, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland

2016 Young, Handsome And Unemployed, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium

2016 Overlay, White Rainbow, London, UK

2016 Woven: Words by Women (and one man), Slowtrack, Madrid, Spain

2016 (Not) Every Thread Ties Down / Your Split Ends Are Showing, DKUK, London, UK

2016 Not Really Really, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium

2015 Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2015 Alighiero Boetti – Zoë Paul, ATTIC, Brussels, Belgium

2015 Making of M.S, four to seven gallery, Riga, Latvia

2015 Le Cyclop, Le Bois de Pauvres, Milly-La-Foret, France

2014 Zodiacs for the Blinded Nomad, Oval Space, London, UK

2014 Garden, curated by Katerina Kana, Romantzo Cultural Center, Athens

2014 The terrestrial globe is covered with volcanoes, which serve as it's anus (G.Bataille), curated by Michelangelo Corsaro, Athens, Greece

2014 Making Holes in Water, Totàl, Athens, Greece

2014 What the Snow does in the North the Sand does in the South, NUN, Berlin, Germany

2014 DUST, curated by Jo-ey Tang and Thomas Fougeirol, Paris

2014 aCab, PODIUM Oslo and Kunsthalle Athina, curated by Valentinas Klimasauskas, Oslo, Norway and Athens, Greece

2013    Under Icebergs, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK

2013 Zoë Paul and Hector Castells Matutano, Cité international des Arts, Paris, France

2013 Sensual Abstraction À La Belle Étoile, ReMap4, Athens, Greece

2013 I've Lost My Marbles, curated by Barbara Sirieix, Totàl, Athens, Greece

2012 Heart of Darkness, Gallerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice, France

2012 ZARDOZ, MOT International, London, UK

awards + residencies

2019 Residency at Sévres Cité de la Céramique, Manufacture National de Sèvres, France

2018 Commission for SCRIPT launched at the Summer Festival Open Weekend 2018, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland

2015 The Eternal Internet Brotherhood 4, by Angelo Plessas, Malaspina Castle, Fosdinovo, Tuscany, Italy

2013 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France

2012 Villa Arson residency, Nice, France

2012 Cowley Manor and Couttes Art Award and Sculpture Exhibition, UK

2011 Cité International des Arts, Paris, France

2009 Future Map '09, University of the Arts London, UK