BORN Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 3, 1948

EDUCATION

1981 MFA Sculpture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

1978 BFA Sculpture, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada

POSITION

1981-2008 Professor of Art, Wood, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky

2008 Professor Emeritus, Murray State University

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020 Hotbed of Manifold Perversity, MAG Community Art Center

2013 Uncommon Wealth, KY Arts Council, Lyric Theatre Gallery, Lexington KY

2012 Your Personal Hangups, Center for Wood Art, Philadelphia PA

2009 The Cedarhurst Wood Project, Mitchell Museum, Mt Vernon IL

2008 International Design Exchange Exhibition, 2008, Daegu Design Institute, Daegu University, South Korea

2007 Speaking in Species: Space, Spectrum and Form, Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids MI

2006 Old Friends, New Work, Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, MA

2004 Dovetailing Art and Life, The Bennett Collection, San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, CA

75th Year Celebration Exhibit, Penland School of Crafts, Penland NC

2003 International Exchange Exhibition, 2003, Daegu Design Institute, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Hukuoka City, Japan

Paul M Sasso, Worcester Center For Crafts, Worcester, MA

2002 Illuminating 20 years of American Craft, Sansar Gallery, Bethesda, MD

Southeastern Craft Innovations, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN

2001 Creative Vision: Southeastern Art Furniture, Connell Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Furniture 2001: A Cultural Odyssey, ASU Memorial Gallery, Tempe, AZ

2000 Celebrating the Creative Spirit: Contemporary Southeastern Furniture; Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke VA,

The Columbus Museum, Columbus GA, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah GA,

Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery AL, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

1998 Paul M. Sasso, Clocks, Ohio Crafts Museum, Columbus, Ohio

1997 Paul M. Sasso, Kentucky Arts And Craft Foundation, Louisville KY

1996 Time Warp: Clocks by Paul Sasso, Arizona State University Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ

1995 Southeastern Fine Crafts Biennial Invitational, Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, FL

1994 Conservation by Design, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Material Vision: Image and Object, Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL

1992 Two Hundred Years of Kentucky Craft. Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, Owensboro, KY

1991 Paul Sasso, Furniture, A Southern Viewpoint, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY.

1989 New American Furniture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA ; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH-1990;

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA-1991

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL

Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN

Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert SK Canada

Garry and Sylvia Bennett, Oakland, CA

Bob and Marie Bergman, Chicago, IL

Sam and Cheryl Wyly, Aspen, CO

Mary and Al Shands, Louisville, KY

Gayle and Bob Greenhill, Greenwich, CT

Ron and Anne E. Abramson, Washington, DC

Murray State University KY

University of Tennessee Knoxville TN

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2003 “Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award” Murray State University

2002 “Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship” Kentucky Arts Council

“Europe in Transition Travel Grant,” University of Regensburg, Germany

1999 "Barnhart Prize for Faculty Excellence" Murray State University

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2002 Seminar presenter: ”15th Century German Woodcarving”, Europe in Transition, University of Regensburg, Germany

1996-98 Board of Directors/Steering committee, The Furniture Society

1997 Curator, "Survey of North American Furniture,” Newberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

1985 Curator: "New Wood/New Ways, International Woodworking Invitational,” Murray State University + 8 other venues through the Southern Arts Federation

1981-present Teaching: Penland School of Crafts, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Visiting Artist: at 58 Universities and Museums in USA and Canada Juror: of 7 exhibitions

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Stender, Thomas, editor “Penland Book of Woodworking,” Lark Books, Sterling Publishing 2006; Paul M. Sasso: pp.1, 6.9, 32-55

Michael Hosaluk, “Scratching The Surface, Art and Content in Contemporary Wood” GUILD Publishing, (2002) pp.10 and 11: essay “Board With Brown”; pp. 14, 57: quotes and photos.

John Kelsey, Rick Mastelli, Furniture Studio: The Heart Of The Functional Arts, The Furniture Society (1999) pp. 86-87, 137

Martha Stamm Connell, curator, “Celebrating The Creative Spirit: Contemporary Southeastern Furniture,” Mobile Museum of Art, (1998) catalog, Cover, pp. 11, 48-49 Furniture Forward, American Craft, (January 98) cover, pp. 32-35

Scott Landis, Conservation By Design, Museum Of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, (1993) p.127

Kathleen Brown, Material Vision: Image and Object Tarble Art Center (1993) pp. 46-47

Edward S. Cooke, Jr., New American Furniture: The Second Generation Of Studio Furniture Makers, Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston, MA (1989), pp. 104-107