Pratt Institute

Education

BFA from Pratt Institute in 1973
MFA from Queens College C.U.N.Y. in 2007

Biography

For over twenty-five years he has been involved in the New York art world in a variety of roles.  He was the Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery, then in Soho, for nine years; and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea for eight years.  Bill also worked in non-profit at the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nancy Graves Foundation, and is presently the Director of the Studio Program of The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.  As a curator of numerous exhibitions he has worked with artists including Donald Baechler, Mary Heilmann, Alex Katz, Jonathan Lasker, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, and Sue Williams, among many others.  Bill has taught professional practice to MFA students at both Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute and has lectured at the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, and F.I.T.  In November 2007 he had a one-person exhibition of his paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea, which was reviewed by Joe Fyfe in the March 2008 issue of Art in America.  His third solo show with the gallery was in March, 2012.