William Villalongo

Bio

Brooklyn-based artist William Villalongo received his B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art and his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Villalongo “direct(s) his work towards a reassessment of Western, American, and African Art histories. Working out of the notion of Blackness as a verb he reframes familiar images, events, and themes in our cultural landscape.” He has exhibited extensively with recent appearances in “Woke! William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson” at the USF Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa, and is the co-curator with Gibson of the traveling exhibition “Black Pulp.” His work has been included in shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery and is an Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union School of Art.