William Villalongo

American, born 1975

BiographyWilliam Villalongo is an American artist working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. Born in Hollywood, FL in 1975 and raised in Bridgeton, NJ, Villalongo received his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art (1999) and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University (2001). Villalongo is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2006) and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2005). Solo exhibitions of his work have recently been held at the University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Galleries, Storr, CT; University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including at MoMA PS1, Baltimore Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Seattle Art Museum. His work can be found in a growing number of public collections including Denver Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Weatherspoon Museum of Art.

Villalongo also served as co-curator of the highly acclaimed traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with fellow artist Mark Thomas Gibson that examined ways in which Black artists have used contemporary art and historical books, comics, newspapers, and related ephemera to upend racial stereotypes.

Villalongo is a professor at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and is represented by Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC.

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