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Associate Professor of Visual Art

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Paul Myoda (b. 1967, United States) is a Japanese-American sculptor based in Chepachet, Rhode Island. Myoda is inspired by the underlying logic and formal principles of the natural world and applies them to his work with new media and industrial materials. The results are compositions of light and form that investigate tensions between beauty and ugliness, tradition and experimentation, and the natural and the built. His sculptures and installations are regularly exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Myoda earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (’89) and an MFA from Yale University (’94). Based in NYC from 1990-2006, Myoda was the co-founder of Big Room, an art production and design collective in New York City. He was also a contributor to Art in America, Flash Art and Frieze. He is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Warhol Foundation and Howard Foundation, among others. 

In 2001, he participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Views Program and had a studio on the 91st floor of WTC I. In March of 2002, he co-created the Tribute in Light in memory of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, which has since become an annual installation.

Over the past three decades, Myoda has been creating illuminated sculptures and sculptural installations. A wide range informs their design, such as bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology, religious nimbuses, and different graphical perspective systems. An example of new media sculpture, his work investigates the aesthetic, operational and symbolic potential when hybridizing CAD-CAM with hand-built processes.

His works are part of the collections of the Queens Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the Library of Congress, among others. He has had solo exhibitions at the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY; the Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL; the Project 4 Gallery, Washington DC; the Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, RI; the Maine Museum at the University of Maine; the Peligro Amarillo Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Plug-In Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, among others.

He is an Associate Professor in Brown University's Visual Art Department, where he has taught sculpture and drawing since 2006.

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