About
Paul Soulellis (he/him) is an artist and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies, network culture, and archival justice. He is the founder of Queer.Archive.Work, a non-profit project that supports queer and trans artists with access to studio space, tools, and other resources for publishing.
Soulellis is also the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines and other printout matter. The collection of 244 works was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art Library in New York.
Soulellis maintains his own art practice centered on publishing, and his books and zines have featured the work of hundreds of contemporary artists and writers. His work is in special collections at The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Walker Art Center; Yale University; Tate Britain; and many other institutions.
His writing has been published by The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Rhizome, MIT Press, Dispersed Holdings, Genderfail, and many others, and his practice is featured in Thinking through Graphic Design History (2025) by Aggie Toppins, published by Bloomsbury. He is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design.
His book Queer Typographies is forthcoming from Bikini Books in 2026.
Press, interviews, features
- Thinking through Graphic Design History (2025)
- Typeone Magazine (2022)
- Peer Review: Publishing the Present (2022)
- Library of Artistic Print on Demand (2022)
- Print Magazine (2021)
- The Brooklyn Rail (2020)
- Vogue Italia (2020)
- Library Library (2020)
- On Publishing: Graphic Designers Who Publish (2019)
- c magazine (2019)
- Speculations (2019)
- A Line Which Forms a Volume (2019)
- Scratching the Surface Podcast (2018)
- Document Journal (2018)
- AIGA Eye On Design (2018)
- Kunstforum International (2018)
- Artforum (2017)
- Vice (2017)
- Walker Center (2016)
- Art in Print (2016)
- Kunstforum International (2016)
- Books and Ideas After Seth Siegelaub (2016)
- Elephant Magazine (2015)
- Else Journal (2013)
- The New Yorker (2013)
- The New Yorker (2013)
Academic appointments
- Associate Professor in Graphic Design, RISD (2021–current)
- Department Head of Graphic Design, Rhode Island School of Design (2021–2024)
- Visiting Faculty, Image Text Ithaca (2019)
- Assistant Professor in Graphic Design, RISD (2015–2021)
- Adjunct Instructor in Graphic Design, RISD (2014–2015)
- Adjunct Instructor in Design, Purchase College (2013)
Selected collections
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art
- Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies Library and Archives
- Black Mountain College Museum
- Brooklyn Museum
- Columbia University Libraries
- Cornell University Library
- Getty Research Institute
- Harvard University Fine Arts Library
- Haverford College Library
- International Center of Photography, New York
- The John Cage Trust
- Maryland Institute College of Art Library
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, New York
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
- New York Public Library
- Princeton University Library
- Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library Special Collections
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Savannah College of Art & Design
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection
- School of Visual Arts Library
- Seattle Art Museum Libraries
- University of Delaware Library
- University of Michigan
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sloane Art Library
- University of Pittsburgh
- Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
- Walker Art Center
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Yale University, Haas Arts Special Collections
- Concordia University, The Fine Arts Reading Room, Canada
- Tate Library and Archive Reading Rooms, Tate Britain, England
- University of the Arts London, England
- Weymouth College, England
- Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
- Reykjavík Art Museum, Iceland
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek, Munich, Germany
Website
- Typography: Nudles by Anne-Dauphine Borione & Max Lillo