Paula Cahill
Born 1957, Detroit, MI
Lives and works in Doylestown, PA
Education
MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
BFA, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Guest Student in Fine Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 2003–2004
Honors and Awards
Honorable Mention, Wayne Art Center Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, 2023
Honorable Mention, FAME, Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2019
Best of Show, Celebration of Life Exhibition, CFEVA, 2016
Honorable Mention, Abington Art Center Annual Exhibition, 2016
Honorable Mention, GoggleWorks Annual Exhibition, 2016
Top Ten Finalist, Fourth Wall, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2011
Merit & Academic Scholarships, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2009–2010
Merit Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, 2003
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Linespace, Hot•Bed Philly at Rio Tinto, Philadelphia, PA, 2025
It Is What It Isn’t, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, 2024
One-liner, Boston Street Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Flash Solo: Paula Cahill, Susanna Gold Gallery on Artsy (online), 2021
Abington Art Center Solo Series, Abington, PA, 2018
Seraphin Gallery at The Yard, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Progression, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
Featured Artist, InLiquid Projects, Navy Yard Marriott Courtyard, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
The Drawing Room, Rittenhouse 1715, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Selected Two- and Three-Person Exhibitions
Meeting New Circles, with Andrew Chalfen and Duwenavue Sante Johnson, Box Spring Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2025
In Time, With Time, with Karen Freedman, InLiquid at Market East, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Abstract Contours, with Jill Levine and Holly McWhorter, Perry Lawson Fine Art, Nyack, NY, 2023
City Art Salon Summer Series, with Chad Cortez, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
Sacred Geometry, with Phyllis Gorsen, Hot•Bed Philly, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
Selected Group Exhibitions
Postcards from the Edge, Barry Campbell Gallery, New York, NY, 2026
Fellowship PAFA Annual Exhibitions, Box Spring Gallery and Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2025
Further and Again, North Museum, Lancaster, PA, 2025
Wayne Art Center Regional Juried Exhibitions, Wayne, PA, 2023, 2025
Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
InLiquid at 25, Off the Wall Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Allentown Art Museum, Collectors Night, Allentown, PA, 2023
Art in Isolation, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, 2020
Geometry, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Strong Lines, Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE, 2018
Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, 2018
Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ, 2014
(Additional exhibitions available upon request.)
Public and Corporate Collections
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Permanent Collection, Philadelphia, PA
Charles Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Speakman Hall, Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Brandywine Realty Trust, Schuylkill Yards, Philadelphia, PA
PNC Bank Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA
Capital One Headquarters, Wilmington, DE
Aramark, Philadelphia, PA
Cira Centre, Philadelphia, PA
Westtown School, West Chester, PA
Works held in numerous private collections throughout the United States.
Press and Publications (Selected)
Bucks County Herald, multiple features, 2021–2023
Philadelphia Stories, Fall 2023
New Visionary Magazine, Issue 3, 2022
What Women Create, 2022
Create Magazine, 2017, 2019
Wall Street International, 2019
Temple University Art Collection Catalogues, 2018, 2020
(Full bibliography available upon request.)
Lectures and Interviews
Hot•Bed Philly at Rio Tinto, Artist Talk, 2025
ArtShow with Craig Stover, Interview, 2024
City Arts Salon, Artist Talk, 2022
Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Artist Talk, 2019
Hot•Bed Philly, Artist Talk, 2019
Abington Art Center, Artist Talk, 2018
Professional Experience
Visiting Critic, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, 2019
Visiting Artist, Westtown School, 2019
Graduate Assistant, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2010–2011
Affiliations
Artsy
1stDibs
Fresh Paint, Los Angeles,CA
InLiquid, Philadelphia, PA
Susanna Gold Gallery, Bryn Mawr, PA and Crozet, VA