Norman Paris

Norm Paris is an artist, curator, and professor based in New York. He has had solo exhibitions in New York at Java Projects, Transmitter Gallery, The Proposition, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid and has been featured in exhibitions at venues such as Ortega y Gasset and Monya Rowe Gallery in New York; Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles; Hilbert Raum, Berlin; and The Print Center in Philadelphia. Paris has participated in museum exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum in New York, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in North Carolina. He was a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts and a 2015–16 fellow at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program in New York. Paris’s work and curatorial projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Maake Magazine, Art Papers, Martha’s Quarterly, and Gorky’s Granddaughter. He is a founding member of the artist-run nonprofit Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York and a professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and he previously taught at the Yale School of Art.

Paris explores his complicated relationship with masculine iconography through the lens of old media and cultural references. Record covers, discarded sporting equipment, and card collections are investigated via intensive processes of drawing, casting, and painting, resulting in images and objects that both conceal and reveal their origins.