RESUME

Paula Lycan is an artist and educator working in photography and traditional darkroom practices, using portraiture to trace a broader view of family, memory, and tenderness. Paula is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography at Columbia University and an Artist in Residence at Rockaway Artists Alliance, Fort Tilden, 2024. Paula has exhibited at The Jewish Museum and the International Print Center New York and has artwork in the collections of the Mead Arts Museum. Paula was born in 1992 in Pensacola, FL, and grew up in San Diego, CA. She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz and MFA in Photography at Columbia University. She currently lives and works in NYC.

Paula Lycan
​​Paulalycan.com  
Paulallycan@gmail.com
(619)-987-0385

Education 

2020 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
2015 BFA, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Grants and Residencies 

2024 Rockaway Artist Alliance Residency, Fort Tilden, NY
2024 The Residency Project Artist Retreat, Silverton, CO
2021-2023 Hercules Art Studio Resident, New York, NY
2018-2020 Photography Fellowship, Columbia University, School of the Arts
2016 Resident Artist, AS220 Studios, Providence, RI
2015 Summer Culinary Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
2015 William Hyde Irwin and Susan Benteen Irwin Project Grant

Selected Exhibitions

 2024
Beyond the Windowpane, Rockaway Arts Alliance Gallery, Far Rockaway, NY
Biennial Faculty Show, Payne Gallery, Bethlehem, PA

2023
The Art of Access, New Collectors Gallery, New York, NY
Embodied, Curatorial project with Grace Sanabria, Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY

2022
Titebond Infinity, Woodward Studios, Queens, NY
Witness, The Neon Heater, Findlay, OH

2021
The Artists Are In, Hercules Art Studio Program, New York, NY
In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Witness, Texas Tech School of Art, Lubbock, TX
Volume 0, 504 W 22nd St, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

2020
10 Years of Trinkett Clark Memorial Acquisitions, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Perfect Vision, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York, NY

2019
Aesthetically Functional, 1675 Broadway, New York, NY
First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

2018
Edging Forward: New Prints, International Print Center, New York, NY
Incline Gallery Anniversary Show, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Algo Nuevo Film Screening, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA
Boxed In, Curatorial project, Curated with Cedar Kirwin, Open Windows Cooperative, San Francisco, CA

2017
What Is Free, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Member Exhibition, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Pride Show, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

2016
I Forgot I Was Worried About You, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY
Member Exhibition, AS220 Studios, Providence, RI
May Vanish in a Day, Solo Show, Eduardo Carillo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

Teaching Experience 

2021-2024 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, Columbia University, New York, NY
2021-2024 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA
2022 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography, Brookdale Community College, NJ
2017-2018 Instructor, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA

Technical Experience 

2021-2024 Production Assistant, Brooklyn Archival, Brooklyn, NY
2021-2024 Darkroom Manager, Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA
2018-2020 Photography Fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY
2017-2018 Facilities Assistant, Harvey Milk Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2017-2018 Photography Technician, Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA

Select Collections 

MoMA Library, New York, NY
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Women’s Studio Workshop Collections, Rosendale, NY

Press, Other Publications 

PIQUE Issue 2, Art and Writing Publication, Spring 2021
Lines Inside, Tiger Stripe Asteroid, curated by Lizzy De Vita and Roni Aviv, 2021
Outstanding MFA Work from Columbia, Cornel, SVA, Hyperallergic, 2020
MFA Spotlight MFA Thesis and First Year Exhibition, Art Form 2020
Thesis Project, Interview by Lense Scratch, 2020