Paul Cava (born 1949 in

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) is an American artist/photographer and private photography dealer and publisher. He currently lives and works in

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. He received his BA in Cinematography from Richmond College

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in 1972 and his MFA in Photography from the

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in 1975. As a fine artist Cava has exhibited paintings, drawings and photo-based works from 1976 to the present in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. His work has been collected by private and public institutions, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Princeton University Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Convention Center, and The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. His work has been showcased in numerous publications including Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Eyemazing Magazine and Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde. Cava was awarded Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants in 1981 and 1999. In fall 2005, the German publisher Galerie Vevais released Children of Adam, a volume combining Cava’s photo-based art with Walt Whitman’s erotic poetry. Cava's work has been collected by

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, The

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, The

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Museum of Art, and The

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, Paris. Cava is also notable for his two decades (1979–1999) of owning and operating the Paul Cava Gallery in Philadelphia. His gallery exhibited work by various artists including

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, Ray Metzker, Joel-Peter Witkin, Lynn Davis, Jock Sturges,

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, Sean Scully,

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, Mel Bochner, and

Richard Misrach Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer. He has photographed the deserts of the American West, and pursued projects that document the changes in the natural environment that have been wrought by various man-made factors such as u ...

Publications

*Corona Interiors / Paul Cava, 2023 *Paul Cava: Photographs, Collages and Montages, 2020 *Democratic Vistas: Whitman, Body & Soul, Stedman Gallery, 2019 *Collodion Visions: Large Plate Tintypes From The Collection of Paul Cava, Bala Cynwyd, PA, 2010 *Eyemazing Magazine, Issue 03-2009, Portfolio of tintype collection with interview *Eyemazing Magazine, Issue 02-2006, Cover and portfolio *Walt Whitman & Paul Cava, Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass, edition Galerie Vevais, Germany in 2005 *Paul Cava, Recent Work, Seraphin Gallery in 2001 *Love and Desire, Curated and edited by William Ewing in 1999 *Paul Cava, Paintings and Drawings, Ganser Gallery, Millersville University in 1997 *Tradition And The Unpredictable,

, Texas in 1994 *Searching Out The Best, Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts,

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, Pennsylvania in 1988 *Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum,

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in 1982

External links

Paul Cava Personal ArtPaul Cava Fine Art PhotographsGallery 339Eyemazing Editions
1949 births Living people Photographers from Brooklyn American photographers College of Staten Island alumni Rochester Institute of Technology alumni People from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania {{US-photographer-stub