William Masters
CV
EDUCATION
2025 Columbia University School of the Arts
Advanced Painting Intensive, New York, NY
2019 - 2023 Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts
BFA in Art: Painting Concentration
Honors Thesis: A Meditation on the Mind's Limits
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2022 Santa Reparata International School of Art
Florence, Italy
AWARDS & HONORS
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2026 Art on the Block NYC Art & Engagement Fellowship
2025 Homiens Art Prize, Highly Commended Artist
2023 Eda L. & Clarence C. Cushing Memorial Prize in Painting
Washington University in St. Louis
Awarded to one graduating senior for outstanding achievement and exceptional promise
2023 Academy Scholar Award
New York Academy of Art - Summer Undergraduate Residency Program
Merit based; faculty recommendation
RESIDENCIES
Present Project 14C, Jersey City, NJ
Live/Work Residency (12 month)
2024 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2023 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Summer Undergraduate Residency Program (SURP)
2023 South Porch Artists Residency | Summerville, SC
SELECTED JURIED & INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2025 LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition
2025 150 Bay Artists Art Fair, Jersey City, NJ
Conscious Space - Juried Group Exhibition
2024 Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
61st Annual Juried Competition
Juror: Kerry Inman (Inman Gallery, Houston)
2023–2025 Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Juried Exhibitions, MFA Circle Galler
Reflecting 2025 - Juror: Joey P. Mánlapaz
Strokes of Genius - Juror: Mark Karnes
Light and Shadow 2023 - Juror: Jon-Phillip Sheridan
2023 Martha Spak Gallery | Washington, DC
Symphony of Color, Juried Group Exhibition
Juror: Lesley Duncan
GALLERY & INVITED EXHIBITIONS
2023–2024 Adah Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD
Selected Works in Gallery Rotation
2023 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2023 Meshuggah Café, St. Louis, MO
Chance Encounters, Solo Exhibition
2022 - 2023 Des Lee Gallery | St. Louis, MO
Dove in the Bunker, BFA Capstone Exhibition
What is WARGAP, TARGAP, Group Exhibition
COMMISSIONS | PUBLIC WORKS
2023 - Present Weill Cornell Medicine / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital | New York, NY
Commissioned for two permanent institutional artworks
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2023 Mural Commission, St. Louis, MO
Permanent, site-specific wall painting
PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
2025 - Present Happy Medium, New York, NY
Studio Assistant
2022 Jamie Adams Studio, St. Louis, MO
Studio Assistant
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