Paul Paiement (b.1966, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American artist based in Long Beach, CA whose paintings and sculptures focus on the impact of humankind and the built environment on the natural world. His detailed, painterly landscapes are overlaid with angular, airbrushed Plexiglass shapes, indicating the disruption of man on nature. Paiement both contrasts and integrates "the ‘human made’ synthetic elements of ‘culture’ with the natural world." His work is often referred to term of Romanticism, as he attempts to reconcile the effects of humanity's nature upon Nature.
Paul Paiement’s works are held in numerous private and institutional permanent collections, including J.P. Morgan Chase, Brenau University, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, International Arts and Artists, Kaufman and Broad Homes, Wellington Management Company, and the Hechinger Collection. He and his work have been featured in such publications and media outlets as Art in America, Artillery Magazine, New American Paintings, ARTnews, Artforum, the Huffington Post, Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Paiement received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He is a tenured professor in the Art Department at Cypress College in Orange County, California. The artist lives and works in Long Beach, California.