Paul Corio’s paintings have long explored systematic chromatic arrangements: colors layered onto simple geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles, and diamonds, sometimes ordered by value, hue, and saturation, or at times applied randomly and intuitively.
 
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Corio was educated at RISD and holds an MFA from New York’s Hunter College. Corio has lived in New York City for over thirty years, and has been exhibiting his work in gallery and museum shows across the United States and in Europe for nearly twenty years. His work has been reviewed in Artnews, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, and The New York Times, among others.