William Graef

Selected Exhibitions

 

2024    Migration  Curated by Carolyn Ratcliffe, Theater For The New City, New York, NY

2023    In It For The Long Haul  Curated by Robert Curcio, LIchtundfire, New York, NY

              Test Flights  Curated by Jenny Wu LESP, New York, NY

2022    Make Art Not War: Pierogi for Peace  Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

             Noir The Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY

2021    Penhart 2021 Phnom Penh, Cambodia

2020    Friends With Benefits  High Noon Gallery Online, New York, NY

2019    Red & Reds  New York School of the Arts, New York, NY

             The Beach  Curated by Scott Bluedorn, Amagansett Station, Amagansett, NY

             Painting Space Alum  PS122 Gallery, New York, NY

2018    Desire in the Bangles  Steele Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2016    Engineering Brick Art  Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
2015    Minimax  Bullet Space, New York, NY
             Four Walls Slide and Film Club Candy Sampler  Fisher Landau, Queens, NY

             There Will Be Art Here  The Clemente, New York, NY

2014    Cliffhanger The Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY

             The Clemente Open Studios  Abrazo Interno Gallery, New York, NY

2013    Unhinged  Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

             Vann Nath Memories in Mourning  The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

2012    Toying With Art  Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ

             Unreliable Narrator  Teapot Gallery, Cologne, Germany

             Road Trip  New Jersey Artist Guild, Rahway, NJ (catalog)

2011    Castaway  PS122 Gallery, New York, NY

             Flag Day  Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY (catalog)

2010    Know-It-All  Java Gallery, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

             Tread  Humanities Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

2009    Hope-A-Holic  Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, NY

2008    Fatal Heap  Meta House, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

             There Goes The Neighborhood  Ps122 Hallway, New York, NY

2007    Walk-Ins Welcome  Umbrella Arts, New York, NY

2006    The Tax Form Show  Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY

2005    Ephemera  Morean Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

2004    Dumbo Art Under The Bridge  Brooklyn, NY.

2003    Missing: A City in Mourning  The New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

2002    The LP Show  Exit Art, New York, NY

             Revolve Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY

2001    A View of MacDowell  The Botolph Club, Boston, MA

2000    For The Record  Galapagos Art Space. Brooklyn, NY

1999    Photic 2  Eyewash, Brooklyn, NY  

             Hiding In Plain Sight  450 Gallery, New York, NY

1998    Art-O-Mat  The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

1997    Pernod Liquid Art  420 West Broadway, New York, NY (catalog)

1996    Decaying Humanity  Knickerbocker Gallery, New York, NY

             Small Works  80 Washington Square Galleries, New York, NY

1995    Art/Music Convergence  Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

1994    Timepieces  Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY (catalog)

 

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Awards / Fellowships / Collections

 

2010   PS122 Studio Program

2009   ART In Embassies Program

2000   City of New York Artist Certification

1997   The MacDowell Colony

1996   Pernod Liquid Art Awards Program

1995   Printed Matter

 

 

Bibliography

 

Foster, Alice, "Collages and More ..." The Cambodia Daily, vol. 47 Issue 59, January 8, 2011

Hamburger, Susan,  "Bed, An Exhibition" WaterfrontWeek, vol. 11.8, April 19, 2001

Schmerier, Sarah,  "Yes, ma'am" Time Out, Issue no. 284, March 1-8, 2001

Kalm, James,  "Photic ll@ Eyewash" NY Arts, vol. 4 no. 11, November 11, 1999

Angel, Karen, "In store 'The Crest Hardware Show'" The Village Voice, June 23, 1999

Skenazy, Lenore, "The Little Mermaids" The Daily News, June 22, 1999

Harrison, Helen A., "Messages Communicated by the Detritus" The New York Times, Oct. 30, 1994

 

 

Education

 

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY BFA

University of Michigan School of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI