Albert Paley

Albert Paley, an active artist for over 40 years at his studio in Rochester, New

York, is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Institute Honors awarded

by the American Institute of Architects, the AIA’s highest award to a nonarchitect.

“The allure of Paley’s art comes through its intrinsic sense of

integration of art and architecture,” as one noted architect stated. Paley,

Distinguished Professor, holds an Endowed Chair at the College of Imaging Arts

and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Commissioned by both public institutions and private corporations, Paley has

completed more than 50 site-specific works. Some notable examples are the

Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington

DC, Synergy, a ceremonial archway in Philadelphia, the Portal Gates for the

New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, Sentinel, a monumental plaza

sculpture for Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as a 65-foot sculpture for

the entry court of Bausch and Lomb’s headquarters in Rochester, NY. Recently

completed works include three sculptures for the National Harbor development

near Washington DC, a 130’ long archway named Animals Always for the St.

Louis Zoo, a gate for the Cleveland Botanical Gardens in Cleveland, OH, a

sculptural relief for Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada, Threshold, a sculpture for

the Corporate Headquarters of Klein Steel, Rochester, NY, and Transformation, a

ceremonial entranceway for Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Pieces by Albert Paley can be found in the permanent collections of many

major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the

Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the

Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Broadly published and an international lecturer, Paley received both his BFA and

MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. He received honorary

doctorates from the University of Rochester in 1989, the State University of New

York at Brockport in 1996, St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York in 1997,

and the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden in 2012.

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Albert Paley is a modernist American metal sculptor, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1944. He earned both a BFA and an MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Paley initially worked in New York City as an art jeweler, but moved to Rochester, New York in 1969 to teach at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he now holds an endowed chair. Paley designed "Animals Always," his first representational work, a sculpture located at the southeast corner of the world-renowned St. Louis Zoological Park.