Will Cotton

b. 1965

Beyond the Pleasure Principle_2014
Will Cotton Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 2014 oil on linen 80 ✕ 108 in
Will Cotton, The Deferred Promise of Complete Satisfaction_2014
Will Cotton, The Deferred Promise of Complete Satisfaction_2014 oil on linen 37 x 28 in

Biography

Will Cotton lives and works in New York. He has a BFA from Cooper Union in New York City, and also studied at the Beaux Arts in Rouen, France and the New York Academy of Art.

Will Cotton’s paintings have been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Art (2000); Seattle Art Museum (2002); Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2004); Hudson River Museum, New York (2007);  and Virginia MOCA (2013). His work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; as well as many prominent private collections.

Exhibitions

2017 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

2016 The Influx Series: Will Cotton , Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA

2015, Will Cotton: Vistas of Candyland, Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY (solo)

2014, Will Cotton, Ronchini Gallery, London (solo)

2013, Will Cotton, Pace Prince, New York (solo)

2012, Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)

2011, Will Cotton, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)

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