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Born: New York CIty Lives: Houston, Texas

Education 1991 Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art - Cum Laude
Solo Exhibitions 2010 Flash, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York 2008 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Overseen, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque 2006 Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago 2005 Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Gallery deSoto, Los Angeles Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas Thomas Werner Gallery, New York 2004 Poissant Gallery, Houston
Group Exhibitions 2009 Sunny Side Up, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York 2008 Pixelated, Winston W�chter Fine Art, New York, NY re-mix, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY New American Talent 23, Arthouse, Austin, TX Group Show, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX Under Surveillance, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI The Sky is Falling, Spur Projects, Portolo Valley, CA 2007 Chill, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Texas Biennial, Austin, TX Vertigo, Plus Gallery, Denver Fab Ab, Salt Lake City Art Center B & W, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX 5X7, Arthouse at Jones Center, Austin, Texas 2006 Watch it! Television�s Influence in Art, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY Baroque Visions and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star San Antonio, curated by Terrie Sultan and Chris French SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin � Eau Claire Texas Paint, Part Two: Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art, curated by Anne Allen Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Juror and Curator OPENDraw, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL 2006 Works on Paper National Competition, Long Beach, New Jersey, Juror: Carter Foster, Drawing Curator Whitney Museum of American Art 5 Angles on Abstraction, Addison Arts, Santa Fe Ripped from the Pages, Gallery 125, CACHH, Houston, Texas Blurring the Line, University of Texas San Antonio, Julie Shipp Curator Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror 2005 New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston Clothesline Exhibition, the Hospital, Covent Garden, London Three Landscape Painters, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut Incremental Disruption, NAO Gallery, Boston 20th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curator DPI:2004 Competition, Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal Poly, Pomona, California 2004 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston
Bibliography 2007 Elaine Wolff, Reading Between the Pixels, San Antonio Current, March 13 2007 Nikki Moore, Bi-ology, Austin Chronicle, March 1, 2007 2006 Theresa Downing, SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire (Show Catalog) 2006 Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump, ARTINFO.com, December 9, 2006 2006 Dan R. Goddard, Houston, in the eyes of the artists, San Antonio Express-News, December 3, 2006 2006 Nancy Salem, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006 2006 Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, exhibition catalog 2006 Bill Davenport, Ripped from the Pages at CACHH, Glasstire.com, May 28th 2006 Bill Davenport: William Betts Makes Art and a Profit, Houston Chronicle, Sunday Zest Magazine cover story, May 7, 2006 2006 Alan Artner, Review: William Betts at Peter Miller, Chicago Tribune, March 10 2006 Lauren Weinberg, William Betts at Peter Miller, Time Out Chicago, March 3 2006 Fred Camper, Slices of Light, Chicago Reader, March 3, 2006 2005 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Diverseworks surveys Texas Painting, Houston Press, December 16,2005 2005 Charissa N. Terranova, William Betts at Holly Johnson, ARTLIES 48, Fall 2005 2005 New American Painting, Volume 60, Open Studios Press, 2005, Fereshteh Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Juror 2005 Michael Paglia, Formal Ware, Westword Weekly, May 13, 2005 2005 D�Lynne Plummer, Destination Nao, South End News, April 2005 2005 Cate McQuaid, Incremental Disruption, Jamey Morrill, William Betts, and Vaughn Bell, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2005 2005 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Brushed With Greatness, Austin American-Statesman, March 8, 2005 2005 Elaine Wolff, Digital-induced Angst and Sensory Overload, San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005 2005 J R Compton, The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension, Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005 2005 Tyler Green, ArtLA Faves, Artsjournal.com, February 2, 2005 2004 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Capsule Reviews, Houston Press, October 21, 2004 2004 Tim Moloney, The Line on William Betts, 002 Magazine, November 2004 2004 Catherine D. Anspon, Autumn�s Art Trek, PaperCITY Magazine, October 2004
Grants/Awards 2006 First Place: Best in Show, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Juror: Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2006 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Jeffrey Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror 2005 Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County 2005 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Juror and Curator

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