meta gallery : paul laffoley

Solo Exhibitions

2007: “Mind Physics”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
2006: “Utopia”, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; “Urban Cosmologies”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
2005: “Time Phase X”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
2004: “Un Aperitif de l’absinthe: Hommage ‡ Rimbaud”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY; “The Gaudí New York Hotel for Ground Zero”, Gallery 28, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
2001: “Portaling”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1999: “Architectonic Thought Forms: A Survey of the Art of Paul Laffoley”, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX; “The Tree of Sephiroth and Other Drawings”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1998: “Building the Bauharoque”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
1995: “The Real Elvis II”, Jamaica Plain Firehouse, Multicultural Arts Center, Boston, MA
1994: “All Elvis Art Show”, Main Street Museum of Arts, White River Junction, VT
1993: “Visionary Art: A Contemporary Survey”, Newspeak Bookstore Gallery, Providence, RI
1985: Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1984: Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
1983: Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
1982: Tremont Tea Room, Boston, MA
1981: Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Wessel Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1979: Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; Fitchburg State College Gallery, Fitchburg, MA; Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1977: Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; Southern Connecticut State College Gallery, New Haven, CT; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
1975: Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; Manteca Gallery, Boston, MA
1974: Belmont-Hill Gallery, Belmont, MA; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
1973: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1972: “The New Jerusalem Project”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH; Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1971: Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Commonwealth School, Boston, MA; Playboy Club, Boston, MA
1970: McClean Hospital, Belmont, MA
1969: Gallery 2, Boston, MA; East-West Self-Exploration Center, Boston, MA; Orson Wells Cinema, Cambridge, MA; Cumbres Institute at Woodstock, Bethel, NY; Macivor-Reddie Gallery, Boston, MA
1968: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA; Pluribus Gallery, Boston, MA
1966: Club ‘47, Cambridge, MA

Group Exhibitions

2006: “Utopia”, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; “Urban Cosmologies”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
2005: “Minds Wide Open”, travels to Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL; “Minds Wide Open”, travels to MicroCoSM Gallery, New York, NY; “Minds Wide Open”, Light Space Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004: “Constructed Image”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY; “Antonio Gaudí y Cornet: The Man, the Work, the Visionary”, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, England; “100 Artists See Satan”, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2003: “The Interdimensional Art Movement”, Gallery of the Senses, Seattle, WA; “The Seventieth Annual International Exhibition of Fine-Art Miniatures”, Strathmore Hall Art Center, Bethesda, MD
2002: “Addiction”, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; “Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program”, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York, NY; “Endless Summer”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY; “High on Life: Transcending Addiction”, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; “The Sixty-Ninth Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art Miniatures”, Strathmore Hall Art Center, North Bethesda, MD; “100 Juxtapoz Artists”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001: “Vox 2001”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY; “War and Peace”, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2000: “We are not Alone: Angels and Other Aliens”, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; “The UFO Show”, Traveled to the Arts and Science Center of Southeast Arkansas, Pine Bluff, AR; “The UFO Show”, University Galleries, University of Chicago, Normal, IL; “Demonstrosity: Deconstructing Monsters in Contemporary Art”, Tufts University, Medford, MA
1999: “Dream Architecture”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY; “The End is Near”, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV; “We are Not Alone: Angels and Other Aliens”, American Visionary Art Museum, curated by Susan Subtle Dintenfass, Baltimore, MD
1998: “Somakatoligon: Degrees of Embodiment-Art and Mind Physics”, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Gallery, sponsored by the Boston Visionary Cell, Inc., Boston, MA
1997: “The End is Near”, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD; “The K.F.L. Project: Illustrations for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, Calvin-Morris Gallery, New York, NY; “The Time Machine”, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK; “They Came Here First”, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; “Are We Touched? Identities from Outer Space”, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA; “Alien Art Ranso”, Harbor Steps, Seattle, WA; “Perfect Being”, Traveled to Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; “Perfect Being”, Gallery Gibson, Art Museum of State University of New York, Potsdam, NY
1996: “A Labor of Love”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; “The UFO Project”, Mobius Gallery, Boston, MA; Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; “Human Evolution and Extra-Terrestrial Intervention and the Arts”, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; “In Pursuit of the Visible”, Richmond Art Center, Windsor, CT; “Three Painters”, Michael Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; “Foliage: The Blossoming Wonders of Nature”, Artscape Gallery, Boston, MA; “Visions in Space and UFOs in Art”, American Primitive Gallery, New York, NY; “Unbuilt Architecture: The Twelfth Annual Build Boston Exposition”, World Trade Center, Boston, MA; “Memento Mori”, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA; Pahana Gallery, Northampton, MA
1995: “In Light of Our Reflection: Visions of Art and Science”, Tisch Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA; “Reading the Image”, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA; Aidekman Arts Center, Medford/Somerville Campus, Medford, MA; “Off the Wall–What a Relief”, Dane Gallery and Gallery 28, Boston, MA; “Frontierism”, Planet 3.9 at the Massachusetts Transportation Building, Boston, MA
1994: “Lamproneiro: Art and the Lucid Dream”, Boston Visionary Cell at the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA; “Kook and Visionary Artists”, Newspeak Gallery, Providence, RI; “Epiphanies”, Art Gallery, Joe Gaggiano Tire Company, Boston, MA; “Epiphanies”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “Symbolic Essence of the Flower”, Cultural Center, New York, NY; “Blast Number 3: Inaugural Exhibition”, Blast Art Benefit, T.Z. Art + Company, New York, NY; “Cult Rapture”, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; “Du fantastique au visionnaire”, Zitelle Cultural Center, Venice, Italy
1993: “The Circle of Fire”, Men’s Sacred Arts Festival Gallery, Newport, RI; “Tower of Babel”, Here Gallery, New York, NY; “Beyond Dreams: Twenty Years of the Bromfield Gallery in Boston: Part One”, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1992: “The Open Studios at the Space Program”, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York, NY; “Utopia: Envisioning a Dream”, Forum Gallery at Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY; “The Beauty in Breathing”, Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL; “Tenth Anniversary of Former Members Exhibit”, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; “Transmodern”, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC; “Re-Framing Cartoons”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, curated by Tom Zummer, Columbus, OH; “The Nature of Science”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY; “Diagrams of the Sacred”, District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Washington DC
1990: “Images of Death in Contemporary Art”, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; “Re: Framing Cartoons”, Loughelton Gallery, curated by Barbara Broughel, New York, NY; “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC; “Chanukah Windows”, Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman, Jewish Community Center, Newton, MA
1989: “Public Domain”, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY; “Outside Paradise: Revelations on the Borders”, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA; “First Night ‘89”, City of Boston, Boston, MA
1988: “Notations on the Virtual”, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY; “Visions of Death”, Oasis Gallery, organized by the Boston Visionary Cell, Boston, MA; “Curators Choice”, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA; “Boston Visions”, Organized by the Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA
1987: “Future Design for Boston”, Boston 2076, organized by the Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA; “Meta-Physics”, Piezo Electric Gallery, Loughelton Gallery; Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC; “Transvision”, Stux Gallery, New York, NY; Stux Gallery, Boston, MA; “Brockton Art Museum Triennial”, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA; “Boston Now: Projects”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “Miniatures”, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA; “Das Zargziel Kosmich Orakel: A Painted Sculptural Gatepost to the Oracle that Traces its Historical Symbolism”, City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA
1986: Stux Gallery, Boston, MA; “Cosmic and Visionary Spaces”, Boston College Gallery, Newton, MA; Stux Gallery, New York, NY; “Metabody”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; “Artcetera ‘86”, Boston, MA
1985: “Invitational”, Stux Gallery, Boston, MA; “The Fourteenth Boston Arts Festival”, Boston Esplanade, Boston, MA; “The Eighteenth Sao Paulo Biennale”, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA
1984: Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; “New Directions in Surrealism”, Laura Knott, Bradford College, Haverhill, MA; Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Search for the Urpflanze”, Goethe Institute, sponsored by the Boston Visionary Cell, Boston, MA; “Boston Printmakers National Exhibition”, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA
1983: “Brockton Art Museum Triennial”, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA; “Working Drawings: Meditations on the Creative Process”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Boston Now”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “Boston International Center for Peace through Culture”, exhibition coincided with the Planetary Congress, Kingston Gallery at City Hall, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA; “Whole Life Expo”, Sheraton Hotel, Boston, MA; “Open Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Art-Tasting Contest”, Salon Margaux, Meridien Hotel, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “Mega-Arts”, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
1982: “Numbers and Geometries”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA; The Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY; “The Brown Fund Intitiative Exhibit”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “The Last Week in July”, Gallery East, Boston, MA; “The Brown Fund Initiative Exhibit Continued”, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA; “Open Show Annual”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA
1981: “Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition Exhibition”, Andrews Air Force Base, Andrews AFB, MD; Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum and Historical Collections, Cambridge, MA; “Progressive Architecture’s First Annual International Conceptual Furniture Competition”, Bond’s International Casino, New York, NY; “Esoteric Art Exhibition”, Pilgrim’s Progress Conference, University of Maine, organized by the Energy System Parameters, Orono, ME; “Annual Open Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Sky Art Conference 1981”, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; The Temple, organized by the New England Society of Psychic Science Researchers, Brighton, MA; The Ward-Nasse Gallery at Lever House, New York, NY
1980: The Ward-Nasse Gallery at Lever House, New York, NY; Société des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris; “Theories of Symbolism”, Boston Architectural Center, organized by the Boston Visionary Cell, Boston, MA; “Open Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Boston Artists Celebrate Boston”, Boston Center for the Arts, organized by the Boston Visual Artists Union and Jubilee 350, Boston, MA; “The Quad Design Competition”, Quincy Market Building, Boston, organized by the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, Boston, MA; “The Time Show”, Senator Paul Tsongas’s office, John F. Kennedy Building, organized by the Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA
1979: “The Time Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “Community Arts Connection”, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA; The Bromfield Gallery at City Hall, Boston City Hall Main Gallery, Boston, MA; “The Association of Artist-Run Galleries”, U.S. Customhouse, World Trade Center, New York, NY; “Unbuilt in Boston: Architectural Proposals”, Boston Architectural Center Gallery, Boston, MA
1978: “Magic Spaces Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA; “Art Week”, 36 Bromfield Street, Boston, MA; “Artists’ Books”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “The Towards Tomorrow Fair”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1977: Pontiac Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI; “The Zeitgeist: Kultur or Kitsch”, Polaroid Corporation, curated by Paul Laffoley, sponsored by the World Future Society, Cambridge, MA; “Visions of History: Presentations by the Boston Visionary Cell”, Quincy Market Building, curated by Paul Laffoley, Boston, MA; “The Open Show: Part I”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; Bromfield Gallery, Woburn, MA; Charles Street Gallery, Woburn, MA; “Paul Laffoley on the Concept of Meta-Energy”, Northeast Trade Center, Woburn, MA
1976: Dodge Library Art Gallery, Northeastern University, organized by the Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA; Henry Hicks Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; “The End of the Future”, Massachusetts College of Art, curated by Paul Laffoley, sponsored by the World Future Society, Boston, MA; Joy of Movement Center, Watertown, MA; Lever House, organized by Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
1975: “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “Magic Spaces Show”, Boston Visual Artists Union Gallery, Boston, MA; “The Northeast Sculpture Open”, Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA; “The 100 Artists of Ward-Nasse Present a Spring Exhibition”, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY; “Painting Invitational”, Brockton Art Center, Brockton, MA; “The New Talent Show”, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY; Manteca Gallery, Boston, MA
1974: “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “The Boston Visual Arts Union Show”, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; “The Wallace Garden Library Competition”, Fitchburg Art Museum (Honorable Mention), Fitchburg, MA; “The Atlantis Project”, First and Second Church in Boston, organized by the Boston Visionary Cell, Boston, MA; “Drawings ‘74”, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Boston Symphony Hall, organized by the Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA
1973: “The Boston Tea Party Poster Contest”, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, organized by the Boston 200 Bicentennial (Honorable Mention), Boston, MA; “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “The Boston Visual Artists Union Show”, Boston Center for the Arts and the Hayden Gallery, Boston, MA; “Proposals for a New England Center for Comparative Utopias”, Boston Architecture Center and Architects Collaborative, oganized by the Boston Visionary Cell, Cambridge, MA
1972: “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “The Food Show”, Quincy Market, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “The Boston Circus for the Arts”, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA; “Art in the Park”, Boston Common, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “Art for McGovern ‘72”, Parker Street 470 Gallery, Boston, MA
1971: “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; “Design in Transit”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “New England Sculpture Association Show”, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA; “Art in the Park”, Boston Common, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1970: “Worlds of Their Own”, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; “Project 70”, Main Gallery, Boston City Hall, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; “Salon”, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY; Thousand Words Gallery, Boston, MA; Pooke Memorial Museum, Natick, MA; Circuit Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Meta Gallery

Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940 Cambridge, MA)

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Meta Gallery

Paul Laffoley(b. 1940 Cambridge, MA)

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940 Cambridge, MA)