"My first year at OCA was really quite normal; you do an enormous amount of work in that foundation year. My second year was wonderful. That was the year Dennis Burton arrived; he was a dramatic influence on my career and on many, many other people’s, and he deserves enormous credit. He showed us a kind of excitement that we sort of anticipated was there and he fulfilled everybody’s wildest dreams by bringing in people like Coughtry and Rayner and Markle and Solomon, and Bolduc was there. Burton had these little systems called pentagals, sort of an evolving lecture series, where people would come for five classes, and he brought in people like Ron Martin... It was just fantastic, the whole year. At that point, I knew 'This is what I want to do.'"

(Paul Sloggett, 1985)

Paul Sloggett was born in Campbellford, Ontario in 1950. He attended the Ontario College of Art from 1969 to 1973 returning to teach there in 1974. Paul Sloggett is a member of the third generation descended from Painters Eleven.

Sloggett has shown his work in a number of solo and group exhibitions including Renaissance ‘71 Hart House, Toronto (1971), Five Young Painters Hart House, Toronto (1973), Young Contemporaries ‘75 London Regional Art Gallery (1975), Ontario Now Art Gallery of Hamilton (1976), A Selection of Painting in Toronto David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto (1976), Abstractions XX1 Olympiad, Montreal touring to Gallery Stratford, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France, and Canada House Gallery, London, England (1976-1977), Cameron, Craven, Gamble, Sloggett: Four Toronto Painters Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1976), 14 Canadians: A Critic’s Choice Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1977), Four Toronto Painters Diane Brown Gallery, Washington (1977) and first solo exhibition, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington (1977), New Abstract Art Edmonton Art Gallery (1977), Six From Toronto Watson/de Nagy, Houston, Texas (1977), Gallery Artists from David Mirvish Bologna Art Fair, Italy (1977), Works on Paper Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, West Germany (1977), Four Painters Bethesda, Maryland (1978), Klonaridis Inc. (1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988), Recent Painting Gallery Grace, Menlo Park, California (1978), Making a Fresh New Thing: 10 Painters Harbourfront Community Gallery, Toronto (1979), Recent Paintings Canadian Art Galleries Ltd., Calgary (1979), Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford (1980), Selected Painting 1979-1981 The Station Gallery, Whitby (1981), Alex Cameron/Paul Sloggett Canadian Art Galleries Ltd., Calgary (1981), Viewpoint: Twenty-Nine By Nine Art Gallery of Hamilton traveling to Art Gallery at Harbourfront, Toronto, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, London Regional Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, The Gallery, Stratford, Ontario, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Rodman Hall, St. Catherines, Laurentian University Museum & Art Centre, Sudbury (1981), Graphex 9 Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford (1984), Paul Sloggett: Paintings Elca London Ltee, Montreal (1984), Art Exchange Exhibition Shejiang Academy, People’s Republic of China (1986), New Abstract Art Glenhyrst Art Gallery, Brantford (1986), Moore Gallery, Hamilton (1987), Paul Sloggett: Twelve Years curated by Joan Murray at the Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton N.B., Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, P.E.I. (1987-1988), David Bolduc and Paul Sloggett: Recent Paintings Moore Gallery, Hamilton (1989), D. & E. Lake Galleries, Toronto (1991), Russell Gallery of Fine Art, Peterborough (1995, 1997), Moore Gallery, Toronto (1998).

The work of Paul Sloggett can be found in many private, corporate and public collections including the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, N.B., the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, and the London Regional Art Gallery.