Paul Loughney received his masters of fine arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and his certificate in Printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, PA. He has worked in a variety of 2D media including printmaking, drawing and painting but has focused almost exclusively on collage since 2007. His work can be found in the permanent collection of Purdue University, Indiana, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum and the Brodsky Center at Rutgers University. He has participated in solo and group shows at Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; St. John's University Manhattan Gallery, New York; La Lutta Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Georgia; Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California; Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Cologne, Germany; Subspace Gallery, Berlin, Germany.

Paul Loughney currently lives and works in Brooklyn.