Paul Clay has served as Program Director of Artists Alliance Inc. since 2001. Mr. Clay is a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator, who works in a wide variety of media.. His perspective comes from an early interest in anthropology and social change. Recent projects include “When We Came” The Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art, Peekskill New York, 2004; "You are Here" at the Diesel Denim Gallery in Soho, 2003; the video artwork "future.surface.(Text)ure" for Art in General - at the 2003 Armory Show; the live video work "Dis-Play", presented at the 10 year anniversary of the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna in November 2002; Curation of "winter.chill" involving live audio and video artists at New York's apexart for "sans an exhibition", December 2002; He did set and live video design for David Dorfman's "To Lie Tenderly" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in December, 2000.

Mr. Clay designed the set for the Pulitzer prize winning Broadway Musical Rent, 1997. He has been reviewed in such publications as The New York Times, Time Out New York, The London Times, Tema Celeste, Print, and Zingmagazine, and has also received numerous awards including the Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular, National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellow, Drama Desk, and Bessie award. Mr. Clay is the founder of Fictive (www.fictive.net), and is Gallery Director for AAI's CUCHIFRITOS art gallery/project space. He has been a featured speaker at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Professional Development Series. He also currently serves on the Hudson Valley Center For Contemporary Art's Advisory Committee, the Corazon de Charas Committee and the Organizational Structure Committee for the Armando Perez Cultural Center.