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Teaching/leadership, Talks/lectures, Writing, Press/features, Collections, Residencies, Fairs, Exhibitions, Affiliations, Education, Bio

Teaching/leadership

• Current: Queer.Archive.Work, Inc. (501c3), Founder/director 2020–ongoing
• Current: Rhode Island School of Design, Department Head & Associate Professor in Graphic Design (Adjunct Instructor, 2014–15, Assistant Professor 2015–2020)
• Ithaca Text Image, Ithaca, NY, Visiting Designer 2022, 2020, Visiting Faculty 2019
• Urgency Lab, one-hour workshop, Brooklyn Art Book Fair, June 2020
• Urgency Lab, one-hour workshop, Interrupt 5, Brown University, February 2019
• Urgency Lab, one-hour workshop, NY Tech Zine Fair, School for Poetic Computation, December 2018
• Urgency Print Lab, one-day workshop, MoMA PS1 Book Space, August 2018
• RISD Global, “Artistic Practice in Public Space,” summer course in Rome, Italy, July 2018
• Triple Canopy Publication Intensive, one-day Urgent Archives work session, June 2018
• Concordia University, Global Emergent Media Summer Institute, workshop in Salemi, Italy, July 2017
• RISD Global, “Artistic Practice in 24-Hour Light,” summer course in Reykjavík, Iceland, June 2017
• Open Set Summer School, Printed Web workshop in Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 2016
• Rhode Island School of Design, adjunct instructor in Graphic Design & Graduate Studies, Spring 2015
• Purchase College, adjunct instructor, Design, Fall 2013
• Cornell University, guest instructor, Department of Architecture, Fall 2008
• Guest critic at numerous institutions, including Otis College of Art and Design, Merz Akademie (Stuttgart), UCLA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Michigan State University, Parsons The New School, CUNY Baruch College, Columbia University, Cornell University

Talks/lectures

• “What is queer typography?” Type Drives Communities Conference, Type Directors Club, May 2021
• “Urgent Publishing After the Artist’s Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation,” 2021 Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference, February 2021
• “Urgentcraft,” Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, November 2020
• “Artist-Publishers, Care, and Social Action with Beatrix Pang and Paul Soulellis,” Wendys Subway and Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, July 2020
• “Paul Soulellis with Megan N. Liberty,” The New Social Environment #40, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2020
• “Urgentcraft,” Otis College of Art and Design / Southland Institute, Los Angeles, April 2020
• “Publishing Manifestos: An Anthology from Artists and Writers, with Michalis Pichler, Chiara Figarone, Gloria Glitzer, Paul Soulellis, and Temporary Services,” panel at NY Art Book Fair, September 2019
• “Urgentcraft,” The Conference, Malmö, Sweden, August 2019
• “Urgentcraft,” Eyeo Festival, June 2019
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Parsons Communication Design Lecture Series, March 2019
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Stevens Institute of Technology Artist Lecture Series, March 2019
• “Queer Archive Work,” A Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, Internet Archive, January 2019
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” California College of the Arts, January 2019
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Prada Mode / Document Journal, Art Basel Miami, December 2018
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Boston University, November 2018
• “Publishing as Practice as Resistance,” Boston Art Book Fair, October 2018
• Insights Design Lecture Series, Walker Art Center, March 2018
• “Scratching the Surface,” Podcast interview with Jarrett Fuller, January 2018
• The Cybernetics Conference, featured speaker, November 2017
• “Forever and a Day: Archiving Performa,” Symposium at NYU for Performa 17 Biennial, featured speaker, November 2017
• “Practice and / or / as Project,” Conversation with Joe Potts, “Positive Space” podcast, Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (CAA), October 2017
• “In Conversation: Paul Soulellis and Allison Parrish,” Eyebeam In Conversation series at Babycastles, NYC, August 2017
• Concordia University, GEM Summer Institute, featured speaker, Salemi, Italy, July 2017
• “Show us what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like.” Featured speaker, b-side Assemblies, Portland, England, June 2017
• “Notes on Feeds,” Interrupt 4 at Brown University, featured speaker, April 2017
• Wikipedia Day, featured speaker for art panel, January 2017
• 3D Additivist Cookbook launch, Printed Matter, NYC, featured speaker & panelist, December 2016
• Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, MoMA PS1, NYC, featured speaker, September 2016
• Conceptual Poetics Day, Berlin, featured speaker, June 2016
• Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair, featured presenter, June 2016
• Michigan State University, Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, April 2016
• Art Directors Club of Tulsa, March 2016
• Code-X book launch, Printed Matter, featured speaker, November 2015
• Werkplaats Typografie, talk with Constant Dullaart at MoMA PS1, September 2015
• Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart, Germany, “Digital Culture” series, invited speaker, June 2015
• Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany, talk and workshop, June 2015
• Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France, lecture and workshop, June 2015
• New Museum, digital publishing talk and panel discussion, April 2015
• “Theorizing the Web,” featured speaker, NYC, April 2015
• “Performing Publishing,” Interrupt 3, Brown University, featured speaker, March 2015
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talk, March 2015
• “Hypersalon,” Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL, featured talk, December 2014
• Printed Web 2 launch and artists’ panel, MoMA Classroom at NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, September 2014
• BBC Radio Solent, interview, 23 June 2014
• Jacksons Gallery, Isle of Portland, England, artist’s talk, June 2014
• International Center for Photography (ICP), NYC, guest speaker, March 2014
• Printed Web 1 launch and artists’ panel, Printed Matter, NYC, April 2014
• Printed Web 1 launch and artists’ panel, RISD & The Design Office, Providence, RI, March 2014
• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, guest critic and talk, January 2014
• UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, guest critic and talk, January 2014
• “Resistance: Scenes from a designer’s counter-practice,” Build Design Conference, Belfast, North Ireland, featured speaker 2013
• Rauði Klefinn, reading, Skagaströnd, Iceland, August 2013
• The Book Affair, featured speaker, 55th Venice Biennale 2013
• Artist’s talk, Marcus Campbell Art Books, London, May 2013
• London2012 Cultural Olympiad, Weymouth, England, reading and talk, August 2012
• “BookLive!” at London South Bank University, featured speaker 2012

Writing

• “unfinished,” curatorial statement for unfinished: New Prints, International Print Center of NY, curated by Queer.Archive.Work, January–March 2022
• “Reading Now,” included in Reading Now, published by dispersed holdings, February 2021
• “Urgentcraft—Radical Publishing During Crisis (A Narrative Syllabus in 19 Parts),” commissioned by PostDocumenta, a joint project between the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Athens School of Fine Arts, February 2021
• “Urgentcraft,” An Anthology on Failure 2: Building on our Failed States, GenderFail, Fall 2020
• Interview published by Elise By Olsen for her publication for the Russian Federation Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, July 2020
• “On the power of mutual aid publishing during crisis,” The Creative Independent, June 2020
• “Library of the Printed Web,” interview in Speculations: Beyond Human-Centric Design, BNN Japan, 2019
• “Urgentcraft,” self-published zine, September 2019
• “Feed Time” in Time, Forward!, V-A-C/Zattere, Venice, 2019.
• “At Home in the Archive” in Queering the Collection, GenderFail, 2019.
• “The Post As Medium” in The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology, published by Rhizome / New Museum, April 2019
• “QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK 2 (1923 INTERNET ARCHIVE EDITION),” published by the Internet Archive at blog.archive.org, January 2019
• “Search, Compile, Publish,” appears in Publishing Manifestos, Michalis Pichler, ed., MIT Press, 2019
• “Publishing Needs to Get More Radical,” A conversation with Annette Gilbert in Kunstforum International, Germany. Sept, 2018
• “Urgent Archives,” essay in Public, Private, Secret (Charlotte Cotton, ed.), Aperture, 2018
• “Search, Compile, Publish,” 2013 essay appears in Publishing Manifestos, Michalis Pichler, ed., May 2018
• “Sanctuary,” essay included in Safe, a pavillion curated by Christopher Clary for The Wrong Digital Art Biennial, January 2018
• “Rozendaal: The Path to Abstraction,” text accompanying the presentation of intotime.com as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, Dec. 2017
• “Performing the Feed,” published in Rhizome’s Special Seven on Seven 10th Anniversary Magazine, May 2018 & Delivered at The Cybernetics Conference, NYC, November 2017
• “Merging with the Network,” interview with Eva and Franco Mattes accompanying the presentation of Life Sharing as part of Net Art Anthology, Rhizome, Oct. 2017
• “Notes on Feeds,” September 2017
• “Occupying Plöger’s Library,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, January 2017
• “Carrying, embeddedness, printedness. Window-in-the-page. A grand assembling,” 3D Additivist Cookbook launch at Printed Matter, December 2016
• “The Download: Dennis Cooper’s GIF Novels,” Rhizome, November 2016
• “The Download: Technologies of Care,” Rhizome, October 2016
• “Artist Profile: Lorna Mills,” Rhizome, September 2016
• “Artist Profile: Travess Smalley,” Rhizome, July 2016
• “The Download: Incantations for the Birth of a Network,” Rhizome, May 2016
• “The Distributed Monument: New Work from Moreshin Allahyari’s Material Speculation Series,” Rhizome, February 2016
• “After the Hook-Up, An App,” Rhizome, December 2015
• “The Download: sorry to dump on you like this.zip,” Rhizome, November 2015
• “The Printed Web,” Google Span Design Conference publication, November 2015
• “The Printed Web,” Code X, Book Room Press, London, November 2015
• “Making Public,” June 2015
• “L’image inframince,” May 2015
• “Digital Publishing, Unzipped,” Rhizome, April 2015
• “Performing Publishing: Infrathin Tales from the Printed Web,” Hyperallergic, December 2014
• “Performing Publishing,” The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2014
• “The Printed Web,” newcriticals.com/the-printed-web
• “Resistance (Scenes from a designer’s counter-practice)” at counterpractice.tumblr.com
• “Search, Compile, Publish: towards a new artist’s web-to-print practice,“ 2013
• “The Generosity Echo,” Communication Arts, Jan/Feb 2013
• “Design Humility,” The Manual #3, Fiction Press, 2012

Press/features

• “Whatever Isn’t Anything Else,” Gee Wesley, Museum of Modern Art, Feb 2022.
• “The Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair Showcases New Artists’ Books, Zines, and More” Hyperallergic, June 23, 2020.
• “20 Best Art Books of 2020” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2020.
• “URGENTCRAFT” CSPA Quarterly, No. 27, Issue: Legibility, 2020.
• “Fallire É Un Po’ Rinascere” Vogue Italia, January 2020.
• QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK review by Danielle St-Amour, C Magazine, Issue 141, Spring 2019
• “How Do You Print Out the Internet?” New York Times, April 6, 2019.
• “Unruly Gestures: Seven Cine-Paragraphs on Reading/Writing Practices in our Post-Digital Condition,” Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol 11, Issue 1, Linköping University, Sweden, 2019
• “Paul Soulellis turns the internet into tangible art,” interview in Document Journal, December 17, 2018
• QUEER.ARCHIVE.WORK featured in AIGA Eye on Design magazine, Issue #3, December 2018
• Books and Ideas After Seth Siegelaub, Sternberg Press, The Center for Book Arts, 2017
• “Totgesagte Leben Länger: Das Gedruckte Buch Im Postdigitalen Zusammenhang” (The Dead Live Longer: The Printed Book in the Postdigital Context) by Franz Thalmair, Kunstforum #243 (Austria): Postdigital 2. Issue edited by Franz Thalmair
• “Library of the Printed Web: The Guy Who Makes Art Out of the Internet,” Vice Magazine, Feb 2017
• “Screen Life and Shelf Life: Critical Vocabularies for Digital-to-Print Artists’ Publications,” David Senior and Sarah Hamerman, Art Libraries Journal, 2016
• “The Space Between 0 and 1: Printmaking and Digital Technology in Portland,“ Matthew A. Coleman, Art in Print, July–August 2016
• “Library of the Printed Web,” Artzines, October 2016
• “Publishing as Artistic Practice,” Annette Gilbert, Publishing as Artistic Practice, Sternberg Press, 2016
• “A Conversation with Paul Soulellis,” Kate Palmer Albers, Circulation | Exchange, 2016
• “Paul Soulellis (ed.): Printed Web (2014– ),” Monoskop, January 18, 2016
• “Paul Soulellis: Scenes from a Designer’s Counterpractice,” Ariela Gitlen, Elephant Magazine #25, 2016
• “2016: The Year According to Paul Soulellis,” Walker Art Center, December 2016
• “Our 5 Dirtiest Discoveries from Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair,” The Creators Project, 2016
• “Critical Making at the Edges,” Jessica Barness and Amy Papaelias, eds., Visible Language 49.3 (December 2015)
• “10 Must-Read Art Essays from November 2015,” Artnet News, 12/15/15
• “Turning Pixels into Print: An Interview About the Printed Web,” Hyperallergic, September 2015
• “Poor Media on Demand: All the Files of Printed Web 3,” Rhizome, May 2015
• “Required Reading: Paul Soulellis on Experimental Publishing,” Rhizome, February 2015
• Kenneth Goldsmith, “The Artful Accidents of Google Books,” The New Yorker, 12/5/13
• Joachim Schmid, Else Magazine (Elysée Lausanne), Switzerland, “The Operators’ Invisible Hands,” November 2013
• Duncan Wooldridge, “The Continuing Evolution of the Photobook,” Elephant Magazine (London), Winter 2013
• “Stampatori di internet,” Rivista Studio, Italy, June 2013
• The Book is Alive, Research Group for Artists Publications. (RGAP) / bookRoom, England, 2013, “Weymouths”
• West Space Journal, Issue 1, Winter 2013, Australia, “Library of the Printed Web”

Collections

• The Museum of Modern Art Library, NY
• Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection at School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• The Fine Arts Reading Room at Concordia University, Quebec
• International Center of Photography Library
• Internet Archive
• Getty Research Institute Library
• Otis College of Art & Design Millard Sheets Library
• Amon Carter Center Museum of American Art, Research Library
• Wendy’s Subway
• GenderFail Archive
• Haverford College
• Princeton University Library
• Harvard University Fine Arts Library
• Savannah College of Art and Design
• Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Columbia University Libraries
• MICA Decker Library
• Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College
• Hochschule Hof, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften—Fachhochschule Hof—Bibliothek
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Walker Art Center Library
• Tufts University, Tisch Library
• Yale University, Beinecke Library, Sterling Memorial Library, Haas Arts Library
• New York Public Library
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library Special Collections
• Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Cornell University Library
• Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — Hirsch Library
• Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
• Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
• Hochschule Hof, Germany
• Weymouth College, England
• The John Cage Trust, Bard College
• Black Mountain College Museum

Residencies

• Internet Archive, January 2019
• ArtCenter South Florida, January 2018
• Dispersed Holdings, NYC, Reading Residency, December 2016
• Attention Lab at Mildred’s Lane, July 2016
• Nes Artist’s Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, Summer 2013
• American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, January–February 2011

Fairs

• Printed Matter Virtual Art Book Fair, 2021
• Brooklyn Art Book Fair, 2020
• Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, 2012–2019
• NY Tech Zine Fair at School for Poetic Computation, 2018
• Boston Art Book Fair, 2017–18
• Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, 2012–2019
• Offprint Library Arles (France), works featured, July 2016
• 6th Annual Zine and Self-Published Photo Book Fair, Baxter St Camera Club of New York, curated by Anouk Kruithof, June 2016
• Odds and Ends Art Book Fair at Yale University Art Gallery, 2014–16
• Internet Yami-Ichi New York, 2015, 2016
• Offprint London at Tate Modern, 2015
• Offprint Paris at École des Beaux Arts, 2012, 2014
• The Book Affair at Venice Biennale, 2013
• Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair at MoCA, 2014

Exhibitions

• unifinished: New Prints 2022 exhibition juried and curated by Queer.Archive.Work, International Print Center of NY, January–March 2022
• Queer.Archive.Work included in Making Common, exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art, curated by Elaine Lopez, January 2020
• Queer.Archive.Work #3: Future Pleasures, edited by Rin Kim, included in The Wendy’s Subway Reading Room at MoMA, NYC, December 2019–August 2020
• Queer.Archive.Work Reading Room at the Internet Archive, January 2019
• Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum, 2018
• p0es1s—post-digital, Kunst Tempel, Kassel, Germany, Documenta 14, September 2017
• Trust and Believe, curated by Nora Khan and Sam Hart, Eyebeam, NYC, April 2017
• Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography Museum, Charlotte Cotton, curator, NYC, June 2016
• Publish or Perish, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, April 2016
• Variable States: Print Now, Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR March 2016
• Mall No. 2, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by DrawDown Books, January 2016
• Installation of ABC’s ABCEUM at Offprint Paris, November 2014
• b-side Multimedia Arts Festival, Portland, England, 2014
• Brighton Photography Biennial, Brighton, England, October 2014
• Undefined by Design, Lorimoto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
• Either/And, “Archiving on the Line,” National Media Museum, UK, 2014
• Due North, Philagrafika Projects at Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, 2014
• Printing Out the Internet, (Kenneth Goldsmith, curator), Labor Gallery, Mexico City, 2013
• Directed, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2013
• Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany 2013
• Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., Gagosian Gallery, NYC 2013
• Mishka Henner: Precious Commodities Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, England, 2013
• ABC Installation, Mews Project Space, London, England, 2012
• b-side Multimedia Arts Festival, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, 2012
• Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 2012
• Revisiting Black Mountain College 3: John Cage’s Circle of Influence, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2011
• Graphic Virtuosity: Architectural Posters from the Robert G. Hill Collection, University of Toronto, 2007

Affiliations

• Queer.Archive.Work, founder and director, 2020–current
• Rhode Island Schoool of Design, faculty, 2015–current
• Rhizome, contributing editor and curator, 2015–18
• NEW INC at the New Museum, mentor 2015–17
• NEW INC at the New Museum, inaugural member 2014–15
• ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative, 2012–current

Education

• Institute of Speculative and Critical Inquiry, “Queer Theory Rewilded,” 10-day intensive course with Jack Halberstam, Tavia Nyong’o, Damon Young, June 2020
• Rhode Island School of Design, “Decolonial Teaching in Action,” 12-week course, Spring 2020
• The Cooper Union, “Principles of Type Design,” 10-week course, 2013
• SVA, “Type and Design” in Italy with Louise Fili and Steven Heller, 2-week course, 2010
• Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, B.Arch., 1990

Bio

Paul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is founder/director of Queer.Archive.Work, a non-profit residency, library, and publishing studio, and Department Head and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Paul writes and speaks about art, design, and experimental publishing internationally, was a Design Insights speaker at the Walker Art Center in 2018, and was a featured speaker at the Eyeo Festival in 2019. Paul is also the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines, and printout matter, now housed at MoMA Library in NYC. 

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