Anthony Papa

My next showing is at Shifting Shore Lines Wallach Gallery Columbia University October 2024 - Jan 2025 It is a group exhibit showing my Hudson River art at Columbia University
Lenfest Center for the Arts New York Times’ art critic Roberta Smith praised Papa's most famous painting "15 Years To Life" exhibited at The Whitney Museum in the Mike Kelley Retrospective in 1994 as an "ode to art as a mystical, transgressive act that is both frightening and liberating, releasing uncontrollable emotions of all kinds." Papa is a political artist and his bio can be found at

Papa is the author of This Side of Freedom: Life After Clemency, ( optioned 2018 to become a feature film) His first book 15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom (2004), is a memoir about his experience with the criminal justice system.
Papa has been interviewed by a wide range of national print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, National Public Radio, “Democracy Now,” Court TV, “Extra,” C-Span, WPIX, RNN among others. His art has been exhibited widely from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York to many cultural centers, and he has appeared on nationally syndicated talk shows such as CNN's Your Money, MS...

Studied at The Art Students League NYC
B.S. Mercy College
Masters in Theology New York Theological Seminary

Selected Venues: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Texas

Whitney Museum of American Art "Mike Kelley" Retrospective NYC

Visual Arts Gallery, Purchase College NY "Death Penalty" - Loss of Conscience"

Hudson River Gallery, Ossining NY

New York Theological Seminary Gallery NYC

Outsider Gallery, L.I.C. NY

Maryknowl Seminary, Ossining NY

Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, Mt. Kisco NY

The Herbert Mark Newman Theatre, Pleasantville NY

The Interfaith Center of NY

The Landmark Conference Center, NY

Inframundo Gallery, NYC

Lunatarium, Brooklyn NY

Cheim & Read Gallery NYC

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NYC

Honor Fraser Gallery. LA

C24 Gallery, NYC

Rush Arts Gallery , NYC