Paul Housley (b. 1964) graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1986, and attained an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 1995. Deeply involved in the material and formalities of oil paint, Housley’s work “refracts his world and the phenomena that catch his eye. Reaped from the flow of our modernity, the social lives, histories, and restive objet de désir, pictured in his paintings recall those kaleidoscopic moments captured by the poetic M.G., Baudelaire’s modernist legend.”
He has shown in numerous international exhibitions including ‘The Poets Elbow,’ Belmacz, London (2020); ‘Slow Painting,’ Hayward Gallery Touring, curated by Martin Herbert, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2019); ‘The Player Becomes the Game,’ Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver (2019);‘Dice. Apple. Knife’ with Joel Tomlin, Sothebys, Stockholm (2018); ‘Snooker Room,’ new jörg, Vienna (2017); Between Things, University of Chichester, Chichester, ‘God & Sausages’ (curated by Maria Georgoula), Stoa Zerbini, Athens (2017); ‘Awkward,’ Anna Zorina Gallery, New York (2017); ‘Factory to Palace,’ Sid Motion Gallery, London (2016); ‘Mini Bar,’ Farbvision, Berlin (2016); ‘Journeys to the Interior,’ Belmacz, London (2015); ‘Concrete/ Oblique,’ David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2014); ‘Studio Stories,’ Galleria Bianca, Palermo (2014).