Paul Catanese
1975–

Paul Catanese (b. 1975, USA) is a hybrid media artist who blurs the lines between the fine, performing, and media arts through a wide array of artworks including installations, performances, videos, experimental opera, projections, net.art, virtual reality, electronic artists books, and print media. His artwork has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago Cultural Center, New Museum of Contemporary Art, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, La Villette, China Academy of Art, Frankston Art Center, Carriageworks, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and ISEA Dubai. In 2004, he was awarded commissions for his electronic artist books / digital cornell boxes for gameboy advance by Rhizome.org and for his net.art by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., for its Turbulence.org website. Additional honors include an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2014), being named the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Artist-In-Residence at Colgate University (2018/19), and a Fulbright Scholarship to Poland (2024). Catanese authored Director’s Third Dimension (2001) and co-authored Post-Digital Printmaking (2012). Catanese served as President of the New Media Caucus for two terms (2009-14), and is Professor of Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago. Collections include the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University, Rhizome Artbase, the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, the Center for Art + Environment Archives at the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.