Paula Menchen

Based in NE Minneapolis my artistic practice combines the style and language of painting, printmaking, collage and installation art.
I am exploring and experimenting with Landscapes from memory, connecting my identity through provocative collaged surfaces. I am interested in contemplating the beauty and ethereal quality of nature and places I once called home. I use various painting materials and methods to evoke a sense of space. My work is transformative by nature rearranging compositions and fragments through surface abstraction. These Landscapes provoke strong memories and questions of home, belonging, what is familiar and what is foreign?
With the idea that nothing stays the same, I work by deconstructing surfaces excavating fragments of information and documenting a specific moment in time. Using fragmented prints, papers and cut canvases, I focus on the material record and unique charter each piece when collaged together brings to these changing Landscapes.

1992 BFA in Fine Arts
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, LA, CA

1990 Parsons School of Design in NYC, NY

Solo Exhibitions 

2025 Atrium Gallery, Artistry Theater and Visual Arts
2017 Permanent Collection Hotel Sol Don Pablo 
2015 Kasser Rassu Gallery, Spain 

Group Exhibitions

2022 ́THE MEAM HALL ́, Muse Europeu d ́Art Modern. Barcelona, Spain
 2022 FLUX Exhibition, Design District, London, UK
2022 ̈Chroma ̈, Thomson Reuters Concourse C Art Gallery, MN 
2022 Art-A- Whirl, NE Minneapolis, MN
 2021 AIR AGA LAB, AMS 
2021 V2 - Exhibition- The Flux Review, UK
 2020 SKT Gallery “Together”, Virtual Exhibition, UK 
2020 AIR 3331 Project Space, Art Fair Tokyo, JP 
2019 Konvent Residencia Summer 2019 Open Art Fridays, Cal Rosal, Spain
 2019 Two Birds Gallery, Seville, Spain
 2019 Flux Exhibition, National Army Museum, Chelsea, London 
2019 XXX Certamen de Pintura y Escultura, Cuidad de Álora, Málaga, Spain
 2018 Caja Rural Granada, Spain
 2018 CIHU” San Juan de Letrán” Ubrique, Spain
 2018 Galeria 360 Galeria d á rt moderna e contemporanea Firenze, Italy
 2018 Aplama I Bienal de Dibujo Contemporáneo “las Huellas del Dibujo”, Spain 
2017 Open Studio Artist In Residence AADK, Spain
 2017 Amsterdam International Art Fair, NL 
2017 Open Studio Otis College Summer Residency, CA
 2017 XVII Certamen Andaluz de Pintura Contemporánea Cuidad de Torre...