Paula Goldman
Paula Goldman is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice explores the role of photography in transforming and memorializing cultural artifacts. Blurring the line between popular forms of collecting and institutional archives, Goldman plays with the narratives created by the arbitrary juxtapositions of images via the photographic process, which instantly removes things from their original time and space and deposits them elsewhere—much like placing something in a collection.
Goldman received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art and MFA from CalArts. Her continuous commitment to community is evident through her early role as a founding member of the Houston Center for Photography and her ongoing involvement with art-educational outreach efforts in the City of Santa Monica.
Her work has been internationally exhibited in venues including the LACE Annuale, Los Angeles; Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3), Paris; Incubator Gallery, Lisbon; the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art; G2 Gallery, Los Angeles; the Houston Center for Photography; Women and Their Work, Austin; and public projects in Seattle, Montreal, and Santa Monica, CA.
Publications include The World From Here, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Time Capsule, Creative Time, NYC; Photometro, San Francisco; and Framework, LACPS, Los Angeles. Her work is in various private collections; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); the University of Michigan Special Collections Library; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Metro Art/MTA, Los Angeles; and the City of Santa Monica.
In tandem with her practice, Goldman has taught photography in various programs around Los Angeles, including long-term appointments at the University of California, Riverside; the University of Southern California; and UCLA Extension. Commercial photography clients include MOCA, LA; PaceWildenstein Gallery; and the USC Doheny Library; among other museums, galleries, and libraries.
