Paul F Yount

Paul F. Yount is a universal poetic multidisciplinary artist creating large-scale narrative oil paintings, audiovisual installations, and short films. Yount is a two-time Individual Support Grant Recipient from The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation New York City, 2020 and 2024. In 2026, he received a Tree of Life Individual Artist Grant. He was born in North Carolina; has traveled the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa; lived in Boston, Los Angeles, Hawaii; lives in Florida. His concepts of human experiences in the themes of life, death, environment, sexuality, nature, time, technology, good, evil, space, are woven into figures, symbols, and metaphors. A YOUNTIAN world with a bold quality evident in the striking skewed compositions layered with sophisticated colors. He creates a tableau of the human condition, and through all of its struggle a sense of continuation of hope that humans might become more sensitive to one another, to the environment. “Through my art, dialogue and communication we can raise awareness how to heal the damaged “skin” of humanity.”

His identity as a universal multidisciplinary artist has driven him to create numerous concepts of the human condition with a focused specialized color palate, spatial composit...

Yount completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and post-graduate studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston

The Bromfield Gallery, Boston

Limner Gallery, New York City

The University of Transylvania, Kentucky

The Caged Angel, Boston

Mixed Plate A Theme Exhibition Hui No eau Visual Arts Center Makawao Maui HI

Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2015 Schaefer International Gallery Maui Arts Kahului Maui HI