​​​The Chazan Gallery at Wheeler is pleased to present the solo show poly-perspectives, featuring the work of Paul Myoda, from September 18 to October 8, 2025. 

 

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, motion, and form that investigate tensions between beauty and ugliness, the organic and the manufactured, and the traditional and the experimental.  Over the past two decades, Myoda has been developing a series of interactive, illuminating sculptures and sculptural installations that respond to the presence of viewers. Their design is informed by a wide range of forms, such as bioluminescent fauna, crystal morphology and religious nimbuses. An example of hybrid arts practice and new media sculpture, the series bridges the disconnections and eases the anxieties of the post-industrial world through affect, presence and responsive gesture. 

 

Myoda earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University.  Based in NYC from 1990-2006, Myoda was represented by the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, and was 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 heco-created the Tribute in Light in memory of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, which has since become an annual installation. 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 of this series of works at 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, in addition to numerous national and international group exhibitions. Myoda is an Associate Professor in Brown University's Visual Art Department, where he has been teaching since 2006.​There is no admission charge.​

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