Paul Vanouse is an artist, SUNY Distinguished Professor and founding director of the Coalesce Center for Biological Art at the University at Buffalo. Interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his practices. His artwork employs molecular biology techniques to challenge entrenched notions of individual, racial, and national identity, and the cultural authority of DNA. His work has been supported by Creative Capital Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts, and exhibited in over 25 countries and widely across the US. Recent solo exhibitions include: Burchfield-Penny Gallery in Buffalo, Muffathalle in Munich, Schering Foundation in Berlin, and Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana. His multi-sensory artwork, Labor, was awarded a Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica, 2019.