EDUCATION
BFA in Film and Video, Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, CT
Filmmakers Award, 1977
Studied Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: SOUND AND VIDEO
Patterson Remix, multilayered audio loop, outdoor installation for New Lamps For Old
Curated by Tom Patterson, Gallery 378, Atlanta, 2022
Times, multilayered audio loop created in collaboration with artist Elizabeth Lide for her installation DRAWN
Whitespace, Atlanta, 2020 – 2021
Night, multilayered recorded audio composition
Featured selection at Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, Museum of Art and Design, NYC, January 25, 2018
Featured Wednesday nights March 2016 on Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform and archive, Chicago
Radius Archive: episode 71, 2016 http://theradius.us/episode71
Free Music Archive, presented as Patch 15 in conjunction with Wave Farm Transmission Arts, broadcast on WGXC FM http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Paul_Kayhart/Radius_PATCH_15_Time/RAD0071, 2016
Under, site-specific sound installation with video
Solo installation, Artfields, Lake City, SC, 2018
Solo installation, whitespec at Whitespace, Atlanta, 2016
Best of Radius Sketchpad 2016, broadcast January 2017 on WGXC FM Upstate New York and wgxc.org (internet streaming)
Bird Calls, audio composition, MOCA GA, 2016-2017
Integrated into 1950s homemade record player in solo installation Putting The House In Order by Elizabeth Lide
Path 1, sound composition/design for installation by Nicole Livieratos, Whitespace, Atlanta, 2015
Terminal, sound composition/design. Recorded score commissioned by Blake Beckham for solo dance performance,
The Schwartz Center, Emory University, 2014
Doubt, collaboration with Nicole Livieratos and Elizabeth Lide, Hambidge Center Mailbox exhibition, 2014
Edge in Unexpected Spaces, sound composition/design. Score for CORE Performance Company, choreography by
Nicole Livieratos, Healey Building, Atlanta, 2014
Dearly Departures, sound composition. Score commissioned by Blake Beckham
Seven performances at Dramatech, Georgia Tech, 2014
I Know Who I Am (I know What Time It Is), multilayered audio composition created during artist residency at VCCA, 2013
Turn the Page, six sound compositions commissioned by Nicole Livieratos for six performative outdoor installations repeated continuously at Flux Night, Atlanta, 2012
Bird2, sound composition for Splendid Details: Textiles from East Asia, Mansfield Freeman Center,
Wesleyan University CT, 2010
Machine (remix), sound composition included on the Vinyl compilation album
La Resistance c'est Homegrown, frequeNC Records, Charlie Hearon, producer, 2006
Thorn Upon the Rose, book by Elizabeth Lide with audio CD by Paul Kayhart, MXPress, 1999
Collected by: ACA Library at SCAD, University of North Carolina Sloane Art Library, University of Damascus, Syria
Thorn Upon the Rose, Collaborative installation with Elizabeth Lide, handmade books and audio,
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, 1996-97
Public Space in the New American City, sound design playing during the exhibition for international competition
Sponsored by the Architecture Society of Atlanta, 1994-1995
Title Will Come Later, videotape editor for Installation with video, Money Changes Everything, Elizabeth Lide
Arts Festival of Atlanta, curated by Lisa Tuttle, 1994
Musical Chairs/Elimination Games, installation with video, collaboration with Elizabeth Lide
Atlanta Contemporary (formerly Nexus), Winter Solo Series, 1992
O Nabu, video editor for Installation with video by Elizabeth Lide
Oh, Those Four White Walls, curated by Lisa Tuttle, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, 1990
Wearing Water/Eating Cement, installation/performance, collaboration with Elizabeth Lide
La Mama La Galleria, New York City, 1990. An earlier variation was presented with Lee Heuermann, composer,
Nexus, Solo Series, 1988
Sharted Quarters, sound installation, Ersatz Gallery at Colony Square, Atlanta
Group exhibition with Linda Armstrong, Stan Sharshal, Elizabeth Lide, 1986
Quick Brown Fox, sound and installation, Nexus Biennale, Atlanta, curated by Alan Sondheim, 1986
Untitled, stairwell sound installation
The First Mattress Factory Show, Atlanta, 1984
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Fellow, Moulin a Nef, VCCA-France, Auvillar, France, 2019
Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), 1991, 1992, 1993, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018
Alternate Visions Grant (NEA, Rockefeller and Warhol Foundations), 1996
Fellow, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, 1994
Fellow, The Hambidge Center, 1991, 1994, 1995, 2016, 2018
Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, Artist-initiated Grant, 1986, 1992, 1994
Artists Space, New York, project grant, 1990
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jerry Cullum. New Lamps for Old review, ArtsATL, 2022
WORK IT! Hosted by Lisa Tuttle (streaming interview), ArtsXchange, 2020
Meredith Kooi. Blake Beckham of the Lucky Penny Premieres Dearly Departures - Burnaway
July 21, 2014
Cynthia Bond Perry, Review: Blake Beckham’s “Dearly Departures” reflects on loss and hopeful new beginnings - ARTS ATL August 1, 2014
Chelsea Thomas. DanceInforma, interview with Blake Beckham, 2014
On-Air interview at Flux Night, BurnAway, Evan Ayotte (costumes) and I were interviewed live on radio regarding our involvement with the performance, Turn the Page, choreographed by Nicole Livieratos at Flux Night, October 2012
Tom Patterson. Irish Inspired, Winston-Salem Journal (Sunday, April 2, 2000)
Judith A. Hoffberg. Thorn Upon the Rose book with audio CD, Umbrella (December 1999)
Laurence Holden. Thorn Upon the Rose, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Art Papers (March/April 1996)
Thomasine Bradford. Musical Chairs/Elimination Games, Art Papers (July/August 1992)
Laura Lieberman. Once is Not Enough, AfterImage (December 1990)
Bob Trotman. Wearing Water/Eating Cement, Art Papers (July/August 1990)
Tom Dorn. Shared Quarters, Art Papers (Jan/Feb 1987)
Catherine Fox. Shared Quarters, Atlanta Constitution (October 17, 1987)
Jan Avgikos. Biennale or Bust, Art Papers (May/June 1984)
Alan Sondheim. The Mattress Factory Show, Art Papers (Jan/Feb 1984)
EMPLOYMENT
CNN, Senior Broadcast and Information Technology Engineer, 2001-2014
Brick House Editorial/Peachtree Post, Atlanta, Chief Engineer and Manager of Information Technology, 1999-2001
Sound Designer, AVID Editor, and Engineer, 1990-1999
Freelance, Atlanta, Location video and audio, video editing, 1988-1990
Prime Cable, Decatur, Georgia, Community Television Studio Manager, 1984-1988
Taught: portable video production, location and studio lighting, video editing, technical directing,
video production (mobile studio), location and studio sound recording
IMAGE Film and Video Center, Atlanta, Technical and Workshop Director, 1982-1984