Paul Resika (born 1928) is an American painter born and raised in

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. He is a former student of Hans Hofmann. Resika began exhibiting his paintings in New York City in the 1940s. He has had several dozen one-man exhibitions in galleries and museums, and his works have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions since the late 1940s until the present. He chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978 to 1990. He is a member of the

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and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Resika's work is in the permanent collections of dozens of museums and corporations throughout the United States and the world, including the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, Washington, DC., the

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, the

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, Warsaw, Poland, the

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, and the

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.Biography
He has had solo exhibitions at

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, New York (1982); Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (1991); Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (1997); and at numerous commercial galleries such as Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York; and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York.

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Lori Bookstein Fine Art
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