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Paul Resika was born in New York City in 1928.  He began taking painting lessons as early as nine, greatly encouraged by his Russian émigré mother, and studied with Sol Wilson when he was 12 years old.  In his late teens, he studied for two years with Hans Hofmann.  He was early influenced by the paintings of Joseph De Martini.  At 19, the young Resika had his first one-man show of paintings at the George Dix Gallery on Madison Avenue.  For much of his 20's Resika traveled in Europe, settling in Venice for two years, studying independently the Venetian painters.  He returned to the US in 1954.  In 1958, he began to paint outdoors and has not stopped since.  In the 60's, he began building a reputation for his landscape and figurative paintings.  Since 1964, Resika has spent winters in New York and summers on the Cape, where he lives high on a dune overlooking Pilgrim Lake.  He spends early summer on Horse Leech Pond in Wellfleet and a month each spring painting in the South of France.  

Paul Resika has received numerous grants and awards, including both the Guggenheim Fellowship, and Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in the early 1990’s.  His work has been collected by major museums across the country including the Metropolitan Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and the Sara Roby Foundation Collection, to name a few.  He has had one-person exhibitions at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, Artists Choice Museum,  the Century Association and Provincetown Art Association and Museum.   He is exhibited continuously throughout the United States and Europe, was a founding member of Provincetown’s Long Point Gallery, and has exhibited with Berta Walker since she founded Graham Modern Gallery in New York over 20 years ago.

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