William Masters
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Education
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Columbia University Advanced Painting Intensive, New York City (2025)
The Art Students League of New York (2025)
Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
BFA in Studio Art, Painting Concentration (2019-2023)
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2023 Eda L. and Clarence C. Cushing Memorial Prize in Painting
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Thesis: "A Meditation on the Mind's Limits: Combining Buddhism and Art to Better Understand Our Relationship to the Unknown" (2023)
Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy, 2022
Cow House Studios, County Wexford, Ireland, 2019
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Selected Group Exhibitions ​& Art Fairs
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2025 150 Bay Artists Art Fair Group Exhibition |"Conscious Space" | Jersey City, NJ
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2025: Adah Rose Gallery | "Carte Blanche"
2025 Maryland Federation of Art Juried Competition "Reflecting Exhibition" | Annapolis, MD
2024 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2024 The Masur Museum of Art | 61st Annual Juried Competition | Monroe, LA
2023 MFA Curve Gallery, Light and Shadow Juried Competition | Annapolis, MD
2023 MFA Circle Gallery, Strokes of Genius Juried Competition, Annapolis, MD | Annapolis, MD
2023. Martha Spak Gallery | Symphony of Colors Juried Competition | Washington, DC
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2023 Des Lee Gallery | St. Louis, MO | Dove in the Bunker
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2023 Adah Rose Gallery | Exhibition of Commissioned Works
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2022. Des Lee Gallery | St. Louis, MO | What is WARGAP, TARGAP
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2022 Adah Rose Gallery | Exhibition of Commissioned Works
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2025: Busboys & Poets (April - September), Washington, D.C.
2025* The Yellow Barn at Glen Echo, Glen Echo, MD, Reflections
2023 Meshuggah, St. Louis, MO, Chance Encounters
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Residencies
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2025: Project 14C, Powerhouse Arts District, Jersey City, NJ
2024 The Vermont Studio Center
2023 New York Academy of Art Residency Program, Academy Scholar Award
2023 South Porch Artists Residency, South Carolina
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Press & Publications
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2025 Mark Jenkins, DisCerning Eye (former Washington Post Art Critic, "In the Galleries")
2023 Pigeon Review: Art & Literary Journal, May
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2023 The Closed Eye Open: Meditation, Summer
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Experiences
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Martha Spak Gallery, Gallery & Communications Assistant, Washington, D.C.
Jamie Adams Studio, Studio Assistant, Zolla Lieberman Gallery Fall Exhibition Prep, 2022
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Adah-Rose Gallery, Gallery Preparator & Customer Experience, Washington, D.C., 2022
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Barton Rubenstein Studio, Washington, D.C., Mother Earth Project Social Media, 2021
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*forthcoming
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