ABOUT WILLIAM MASTERS

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William Masters is an award-winning artist specializing in portraiture who works in both the New York and Washington, DC areas. He earned his BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in St. Louis, MO where he received the prestigious Eda L. and Clarence C. Cushing Memorial Prize in Painting. He has also studied in Florence, Italy and County Wexford, Ireland and has been awarded residencies at The Vermont Studio Center, The New York Academy of Art (Academic Scholar Award) and the South Porch Artists Residency, in South Carolina.

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Recent exhibitions and awards include The Masur Museum of Art (61st Annual Juried Competition), MFA Curve Gallery (Light and Shadow Juried Competition), MFA Circle Gallery (Strokes of Genius Juried Competition), the Martha Spak Gallery (Symphony of Colors Juried Competition) and the Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO (Dove in the Bunker and What is WARGAP, TARGAP.)

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His work has been featured in numerous publications including the Pigeon Review Art & Literary Journal, The Closed Eye Open and is also on permanent display at the Cornell/Weill Medical Center in NYC and in private collections across the country.