PAUL SCHIEK

BORN
1977
 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

EDUCATION
 2001-2005
 California College of the Arts, BFA program
   

EXHIBITIONS
 2008
 Inside/Outside, Bay Area Now 5, (group), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 Kick Out the Jams, (group) The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
 holes and halos, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

2007
 New Work from Recent Graduates of the California College of the Arts, Curated by Lawrence Rinder, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
 Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
CCA Centennial: Alumni and Faculty at Stephen Wirtz Gallery

2006
 Three New Photographers, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 Heartfelt, 96 Gillespie, London

2005
 good by angels, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
 Love & Destruction, (group), ONSIX Gallery/Club 6, San Francisco, CA
 Sacred Geometry, (group), ONSIX Gallery/Club 6, San Francisco, CA

2004
 good by angels, exhibition and book release, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA
Instant Group Art Show, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA

2004-2005
 Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture (traveling) included in video and ephemera sections, Contemporay Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

2002
 Celebrated Summer, (group), fifty24sf, San Francisco, CA

 Self-published works (these birds walk)
 Todd Hido, Marianne Mueller, Abner Nolan, Alec Soth, a series of four individual books published by these birds walk, 2008-2009
 holes and halos, published by these birds walk/wirtz gallery, 2008
 Jim Goldberg, Ari Marcopoulos, Paul Schiek, Mike Brodie, a series of four individual books published by these birds walk, 2007
 how many humans does it take to change a lightbulb?, published by these birds walk, 2006
good by angels, published by these birds walk, 2004
 its so beautiful I want it to die-author unknown, published by these birds walk, 2004
 diptych, published by these birds walk, 2003

PUBLICATIONS
 Apartamento, Issue 1, Spring/Summer, 2008
“We are the World,” Fanzine 137, 2007
“Connect Four,” (PDN) Photo District News, November, 2006
 Faesthetic, Issue No. 5, 2006 (illus.)
“Heartbeats Accelerating,” Fanzine 137, 2006
Selected Articles and Reviews
 Keough, Sarah. “Holes and Halos,” Print Fetish, June 24
Tramposch, Emma. “The Kin Series: Published by These Birds Walk, Camerawork, Spring/Summer 2008
Baker, Kenneth. “One for three at Wirtz,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 2006 (illus.)
Benjamin, Lloyd. “Let it Fly: An interview with Paul Schiek, founder of These Birds Walk publishing company.
Brenneman, Christine. “Three New Photographers at Stephen Wirtz Gallery”, Artweek, March 2006 (illus.)
Brydges, Steve. “Paul Schiek” (interview), Copper Press, CP27, 2006 (illus.)
D’Andrea, David Vincent. “Interview with Paul Schiek”, AK47, January/February 2006
Cash, Stephanie. “Report from San Francisco II”, Art in America, January, p 61.
 San Francisco, January, p. 37.
Friedman, Roberto. “Out There”, Bay Area Reporter, January 10, 2006