Paul Edmunds was born in 1970 in Johannesburg, and currently lives in Cape Town. Recent exhibitions include The Road to Natural Selection is Fraught with Random Mutation (2019), Braids (2016), and Elemental (2015) at WHATIFTHEWORLD. He has also exhibited with Stevenson and Blank Projects, Cape Town, as well as RH Gallery in New York. Notable group exhibitions include Seeds of the Fig (2022); The Rainbow Nation, an exhibition of three generations of sculpture from South Africa, at Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (2012); Coming of Age: 21 Years of Artist Proof Studio at Johannesburg Art Gallery (2012); Impressions from South Africa at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011). He won the Tollman Award in 2007, and in 2010 was awarded the Ampersand Foundation residency in New York.

Edmunds’ work is included in various private and public collections including; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The South African National Gallery; The Sasol Art Collection; and The Carnegie Art Gallery, Newcastle.