Paula Crown

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Paula Crown is a multimedia artist with a practice encompassing drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Crown rigorously incorporates cutting-edge technology, social activism, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability in her studio practice.

Crown earned her M.F.A. in painting and drawing in 2012 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has had solo exhibitions at the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO (2013); Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (2014); Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (2015); The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX (2016); 10 Hanover, London (2017); Studio Cannaregio, Venice, concurrent with the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018); Fort Gansevoort, New York, NY (2018); and Hebrew University Arts Website, Jerusalem, Israel (2020).
In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Crown to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she chairs the Education Committee. She also serves on The Aspen Institute Committee of the Arts.

Crown’s public art installations include TRANSPOSITION: Over Many Miles, Miami Design District, Miami, FL (2014-16); JOKESTER in Aspen, Colorado (2018) and Sculpture Milwaukee, WI (2020); JOKESTER 2 in the Miami Design District, Miami, FL (2018); FREEZING RAIN, Aurora: Future Worlds, Dallas, TX (2018); Thoughts & Prayers with For Freedoms, Chicago, IL (2018); Thoughts & Prayers, Hurt People Hurt People, LIAR LIAR, Humble Hubris, For Freedoms Congress, Los Angeles, CA (2020); JOKESTER, Sculpture Milwaukee 2020, Milwaukee, WI (2020); #solotogether (Messages for the City), Times Square Arts, New York, NY, which traveled to the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (2020); What Are You For, For Freedoms Awakening Billboard, Boston, MA (2020); Branded, CowParade, New York, NY (2021); Chalice, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY (2021); and EMANARE, Intersect 21, Palm Springs, CA (2021), which traveled to Rockefeller Center, New York, NY (2021) and New World Symphony’s WALLCAST, Miami, FL for Art Basel Miami Week 2021.

She has engaged in several high-profile collaborations, including with The Limelight Hotel Collection in Snowmass, CO and Ketchum, ID (2017); Holly Hunt (2017); Sam’s Restaurant at The Limelight Hotel, Snowmass, CO (2016); Christ...