Paul Resika

Who is Paul Resika?

Paul Resika is an American painter, was born and raised in New York City. Resika began exhibiting his paintings in New York City in the 1940s. He has had several dozen one-man exhibitions in important galleries and museums, and his works have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions since the late 1940s until the present.

He is a well-known New York artist who chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978-1990. He is a member of the National Academy and a former student of Hans Hofmann. Resika's work is in the permanent collections of dozens of museums and corporations throughout the United States and the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC., the Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, and the Whitney Museum of American Art among numerous others.