Education
1996-1998 Extension Program, University of California, Berkeley, California
1990 Studio Program, International School of Art, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
1986-1988 Studio Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1979-1984 Bachelor of Architecture degree, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Selected Exhibitions
2009 Pintura Fresca, Knauer Gallery, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania
2008 Pintura Fresca, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California
2007 New Work, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida
2007 Paper, Canvas and Panel, Homey, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Pintura Fresca, Gallery 425, Slough, United Kingdom (London)
2007 Pintura Fresca, artyfakt, Singapore
2006 New Work on Canvas, Greene Contemporary, Sarasota, Florida
2006 Marks and Gestures, Hang, San Francisco, California
2006 Talent 2006, Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, New York
2005 Talent 2005, Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, New York
2005 Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, Kentucky
2005 Kentucky National Biennial, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky
2004 New Work on Paper, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, New Mexico
2004 Water Tower Annual, Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, Kentucky
2004 ArtExpo.Mexico.04, Galeana 70, Centro, Morelia, Mexico
2003 Running and Standing Still, Maturango Museum, Ridgecrest, California
2003 On the Horizon, Hang, Palo Alto, California
2002 New Work, Hang, San Francisco, California
2002 Triennale International d’Art Contemporain, La Grande Arche, Paris, France
2001 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
2000 Dyads and Triads, Hang, San Francisco, California
1996 Color (3),  Circa Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Chicago-Leipzig ‘Leben in der Grobstadt-Altag und Visionen, Leipzig, Germany
1995 American Nomads, Circa Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1995 Offerings, Bertoncini Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1994 Legume du Jour, Circa Galery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Combinations, Gallery 1633, Chicago, Illinois
1990 Year Round Exhibition, Ariel Gallery, New York City, New York

Awards
2005 Kentucky National Biennial, Third Place Winner
2001 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Fifth Place Medal, Painting

Publications
2007 SRQ, November: ‘Ghost World: Absence and Shadow’
2007 Chicago Home + Garden, September/October:  ‘Picture This’
2007 WOW, volume 11:  ‘Paul Lorenz’
2006 Arts Across Kentucky, Summer 2006:  ‘Surpassing Expectations’
2005 Exposition International d’Art Contemporain, ADAI, Mirabel, France
2003 Art of Northern California, Alcove Books, Berkeley, California
2002 Triennale de Paris, Internationale d’Art Contemporain, ARTEC, Paris, France
2001 Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Arte Studio, Florence, Italy,

Professional Experience
2001-2003 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, California
2001-2003 Master class instructor: Abstraction and Interpretation I, II, III
2001-2003 Master advisor for MFA candidates
2004-present Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California
2004-present Master class instructor: Abstraction and Interpretation I, II, III
2004-present Master adviser for MFA candidates
2004-present Cyber Campus, On-Line Classes
2005-present River’s Edge International Film Festival, Paducah, Kentucky
2005-present Chairman of Film Selection
2007 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2007 Art Critic and Conference Host

Biography
With an education in Bauhaus architecture and fine art, Paul Lorenz has carved a interesting niche in the international art world: bridging the principals and immediacy of painting with the logic and detail of architecture.  Painting is a balance of physical structure (wood, canvas, paper); visual structure (brush strokes, scrapes, tears); and color, typically created from dry pigments.  The structure of color takes on its own life while contained on the painting surface.  Whether thin and spacial, or thick and elemental, the paint and color are developed to compliment the physical and visual, allowing the painting process to remain the final subject.

The most recent additions to Paul’s work are graphite drawings.  Based upon drafting exercises from his years studying architecture, his drawings depict abstraction in it’s purest form, geometry, yet still contain elements of expressionism in the line work.  Though minimal in logic, the drawings contain richness in developed space and positive/negative relationships.

Paul was born in Chicago and has lived and worked in Chicago, Berkeley, California and now Paducah, Kentucky.  After graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, he went on to study oil painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the International School of Art in Italy (under Nicolas Carone and Irving Petlin) and the University of California, Berkeley.  After winning a fifth place medal for painting at the Florence Biennale in 2001, Paul developed classes in abstraction for the MFA program for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he currently teaches through their cyber-campus.  Paul is a member of Pintura Fresca, an international group of abstract painters, exhibiting worldwide, with past exhibitions in Singapore, England and the USA.