William Villalongo

William Villalongo
Born December 14, 1975
Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Education The Cooper Union, Temple University
Known for Painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation art

William Villalongo (born December 14, 1975 in Hollywood, Florida) is an American artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Villalongo is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

Early life and education

William Villalongo received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in 1999. He furthered his education by receiving his Masters in Fine Art from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University.[1]

Career and influences

William Villalongo's work has exhibited nationally in solo exhibitions at University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at University of the Arts Philadelphia, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery at the University of Tampa, FL, and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture in Charlotte, North Carolina. Villalongo has also completed residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in ME, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Studio-f at the University of Tampa, Florida; the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and the Fountainhead, Miami, FL.[2]

Villalongo has also participated in group shows at institutions nationally, including the Studio Museum in Harlem and El Museo de Barrio in New York City; Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, North Carolina; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC. Reviews of his work have appeared in Artforum, The New York Times and Huffington Post among others. Villalongo is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery in New York City.[3]

William Villalongo navigates the politics of historical erasure directing 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 explores dualities such as male-female, visibility/invisibility, humanity/nature incorporating appropriations from ancient myth to contemporary politics. This vast time frame narrates a conversation between images by which current existential concerns of representation are made more visible.[4]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2017 “Keep on Pushing,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
  • 2017 “Outside My Name or Through Other Eyes,” curated by Barry Rosenberg, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storr, CT
  • 2016 “William Villalongo: Window on Broad,” Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2015 "Mind, Body, and Soul", Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
  • 2013 "New Mythologies", The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte NC
  • 2013 "Fierce", Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
  • 2013 Scarfone Hartley Gallery at University of Tampa, Tampa FL
  • 2012 "Sista Ancesta", Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
  • 2010 "Bathing Nymph", Susan Inglett Gallery
  • 2009 "Eden's Remix", Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
  • 2007 "How the West Was Won", Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN

Group exhibitions

  • 2018 "Postcard from New York II,” curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah and Serena Trizzino, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
  • 2018 “Go Figure,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
  • 2018 “Oscillation,” curated by Dan Cameron, Jonathan Ferrera Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • 2017 “Near and Dear,” curated by Carrie Moyer, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
  • 2017 “Black & Brown People | White Problems,” Samson Projects, Boston, MA
  • 2017 “Woke! William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson,” University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
  • 2017 “Crossing the Line: Selections from the Grinnell College Art Collection,” Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, IA
  • 2017 “Political Discourse,” University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
  • 2016 “American Histories,” Pi Artworks, London
  • 2016 “November’s Bone,” Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
  • 2016 “The BRIC Biennial: Volume II, Bed Stuy/Crown Heights Edition,” BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2015 “Figure and Form: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection,” El Museo del Barrio, NYC
  • 2015 "Greater New York," MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
  • 2015 "Affinity Atlas", Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
  • 2015 "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2015 "The Image of the Artists in their Absence: The Self Portrait”, National Academy Museum & School, NYC
  • 2014 "On Paper: Alternate Realities”, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 "Guns in the Hands of Artists", Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Aspen Institute, NYC
  • 2014 "If You Build it, They Will Come", No Longer Empty, NYC
  • 2013 "The Shadows Took Shape", The Studio Museum Harlem, NYC
  • 2013 "On the Relativity of Distance. (and some of its consequences): American and Italian Art, 1963–2013", curated by Filippo Fossati and Maurizio Pellegrin, National Academy Museum, NYC
  • 2013 "The Fourth Dimension" curated by Saya Woolfalk including Trenton Doyle Hancock and Chitra Ganesh, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2013 "The Emo Show", The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
  • 2013 "Hypertrophic Visions", Curated by Robin Reisenfeld, NYCAMS, NYC
  • 2013 "Voces y Visiones: Highlights from the Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
  • 2012 “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
  • 2012 “Inside Out and from the Ground Up”, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
  • 2012 “...Game On”, Peveto, Houston, TX
  • 2011 “The Bearden Project”, Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
  • 2011 “Summertime in Paris”, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
  • 2011 “Collected. Vignettes”, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
  • 2010 “Next Wave Art”, Curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2010 “Desire”, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • 2009 “Liberty & The Land”, Cuchifritos, NYC
  • 2009 “The Kitchen Block Party”, NYC
  • 2009 “Permanent Collection”, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • 2009 “Back to the Garden”, Deutsche Bank, NYC
  • 2009 “Sixty Minutes”, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
  • 2008 “The Future Must be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 Years”, NYC
  • 2008 “The Future As Disruption”, The Kitchen, NYC
  • 2007 “Welcome to My World”, Alexandre Pollazzon Gallery, London, England
  • 2007 “MASK”, James Cohan Gallery, NYC
  • 2007 “The S Files”, El Museo del Barrio, NYC
  • 2007 “Sirens Song”, Arthouse, Austin, TX
  • 2006 “Interplay”, Exit Art, NYC
  • 2006 “Possibly Being”, Esso Gallery, NYC
  • 2005 “Frequency”, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
  • 2005 “You Are Here”, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
  • 2005 “Hanging by a Thread”, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
  • 2005 “Delicate Demons and Heavenly Delights”, Oliver Kamm, NYC
  • 2005 “Pulp!”, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2005 “Collection In Context”, Studio Museum In Harlem, NY
  • 2005 “Greater New York 2005”, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
  • 2004 “Figuratively: A.I.R. Exhibition”, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
  • 2004 “Open House”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2003 “Group Show: All Together Now”, Rush Arts, NYC
  • 2003 “Online”, Feigen Contemporary, NYC

Selected public collections

  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • Bryn Mawr College Art and Artifacts Collection, Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
  • El Museo del Barrio, NYC
  • Grinnell College Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
  • Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
  • Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
  • Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
  • Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  • Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
  • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Curatorial projects

  • 2017 “Black Pulp!” Tour: USFCAM June 2-July 22 & Wesleyan University Sept. 19-Dec. 10 curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson
  • 2016 “Black Pulp!,” curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson, Yale School of Art 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Haven, CT; traveling to International Print Center New York (IPCNY), NYC
  • 2014 “Species: Nathaniel Mary Quinn” curated by William Villalongo, Bunker 259, Brooklyn, NYC
  • 2013 “American Beauty” curated by William Villalongo, Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC
  • 2013 “BYTS” curated by William Villalongo, Stedelijk Museum, ’s- Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
  • 2006 “Possibly Being” curated by William Villalongo, Esso Gallery, NYC

Workshops/lectures/panels

  • 2017 Drawing Lines: The Black American Experience. With Con. John Lewis and [H]afrocentric. The Cooper Union Great Hall, NYC. 13 May 2017
  • 2016 U.S. Latino/a Arts Futures Symposium, Ford Foundation, NYC, 16 September 2016.
  • 2016 Disguise (Part 1): Saya Woolfalk + William Villalongo, Hosted by Jake Nussbaum, Clocktower, NYC, 18 April.
  • 2014 The 2014 Afro-Latinas Now!, El Museo del Barrio, NYC, 25 October.
  • 4 Painters Lecture Series, SMFA Boston, 17 April.

Publications

  • Black Pulp! edited by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson. Catalogue, Yale School of Art, 2016.
  • Disguises: Masks and Global African Art catalogue, Seattle Art Museum, Yale University Press, 2015.
  • Donahue, James and Derek Maus, eds.,”Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity after Civil Rights,” University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
  • Editions 07 catalogue, Lower Eastside Printshop Inc., NYC, 2007.
  • The S Files: El Museo’s 5th Biennial catalogue, El Museo del Barrio, NYC, 2007.
  • Innervisions catalogue, Esso Gallery, NYC, 2007.
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany Award catalogue, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2005.
  • Greater NY 2005 catalogue, P.S.1 Contemporary, NYC, 2005.
  • Frequency catalogue, Studio Museum In Harlem, NYC, 2005.
  • Open House catalogue, Brooklyn Museum, NY, 2005.
  • A.I.R catalogue, Studio Museum In Harlem, NYC, 2004.

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References

  1. ↑ "Yale University School of Art: William Villalongo". art.yale.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  2. ↑ "William Villalongo". The Fountainhead. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  3. ↑ "ARTIST / WILLIAM VILLALONGO". SUSAN INGLETT GALLERY. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
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  5. ↑ ""Peggy Cooper Cafrtiz: Everything in a Big Way"-THE NEW YORK TIMES". THE NEW YORK TIMES. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Placing Guns in the Hands of Artists". VICE. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
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  9. ↑ "Feminist, Horny Pervert – or Both?". CREATIVE LOAFING TAMPA BAY. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
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  11. ↑ "Is That a Rectangle in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?". HUFFINGTON POST. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
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  16. ↑ "Possibly Being". THE BROOKLYN RAIL. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
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