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Paul P. (b. 1977, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian painter known for his sombre portraits of queer communities in the 1970s and 1980s during the AIDS crisis and movements for equality. His works have been concerned with capturing an informal history not expressed by mainstream culture, but whose events affect the lives of queen youth in Canada.
More recently, Paul P. has shifted his practice towards painting landscapes and doing paper colalge. In these blurry and abstract compositions, P.'s works bear witness to a changing world and reflect on places whose identity is unclear and shifting. For the artist, visually rendering the landscapes as echoes of a time of a bygone era is an exercise in understanding how the present has been shaped.
P. lives and works in Toronto. His artwork can be found in collections; including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Whitney Museum.