Paul Richard Aho
Paul Aho was the first recipient of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Ubertalli Award
for Artistic Achievement and is a two-time recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium’s
Visual and Media Artists Fellowship. Additionally, in 2010 he was awarded an individual artist’s
fellowship from The Santo Foundation through an international call to artists. Aho graduated
magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida State University, Tallahassee,
and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Aho has held administrative positions as chief program officer for the Palm Beach Photographic
Centre; dean of the School of Art at the Armory Art Center and North American sales
representative for International Fine Arts Expositions. He has also served as director of visual
art services and public art programs for the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, and as an
adjunct professor of art at Florida Atlantic University and Palm Beach Community College. He
currently serves as head of photography and digital imaging for the Paducah School of Art in
west Kentucky.
Recent solo exhibitions include From There to Here, Jefferson Street Studios, Paducah, 2011;
Paul Aho: Recent Works, Martin County Cultural Center, Martin County, Florida, 2010; and Here
and Now, Present Global Fine Art, West Palm Beach, 2009. Group or juried exhibitions include
the 59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Inaugural 2008,
Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.; Undertow: A Survey of South Florida Contemporary Art, Istanbul,
Turkey; Legacy, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa; Art Futures, Gallery Center, Boca Raton,
Florida; The Bridge Art Fair, Miami Beach, Florida; New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Museum
of Art, Austin, Texas; Select, Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton;
Norte Americanos, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico; The Impossibility
of..., Mark Shulgasser Photo Gallery, West Palm Beach; and Paul Aho and Immi Storrs,
Clarke Galleries, Stowe, Vermont.
Gallery representatives include Art Lab 33/Art Space, Miami, Florida; Gallery Biba, Palm Beach, Florida;
Collectors Corner, Naples, Florida; Wright Gallery, Northport, Michigan;
and Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton.
His work is in the permanent collections of Sioux City Art Center, Iowa; Mandarin Hotel, Miami;
MGM Mirage, Las Vegas; Suki Art Fund, Houston; Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino and Four Seasons Hotel
and Resort, Marrakech, among dozens of others. Representation for corporate clients includes
Soho Myriad, Atlanta, BostonArt, Boston and Kinzelman Art Consultants, Houston, among
other leaders in the field.
Aho has recently completed Rio de Ais, a thematic installation supporting environmental
awareness of the Indian River Lagoon, commissioned by the Florida Art in State Buildings
Program at Florida Atlantic University.