Will Cotton (b. 1965)
Born Melrose, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York City, NY
Education
1987 Cooper Union, B.F.A., New York, NY
1988 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Taming of the Cowboy, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Will Cotton, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
2017 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
The Influx Series: Will Cotton, Orlando Museum Of Art, Orlando, FL
2015 Will Cotton, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Will Cotton: Vistas Of Candyland, Cornell University College Of
Architecture, Art, And Planning, Ithaca, NY
2014 Will Cotton, Ronchini Gallery, London, UK
2013 Will Cotton, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2012 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Cockaigne, Performance As Part Of Werk! Armitage Gone Variety Show,
Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
2011 Cockaigne, Performance At Prince George Ballroom As Part Of Performa
11, New York, NY
Will Cotton, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Will Cotton: New Works On Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Will Cotton: Monoprints, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Will Cotton, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2009 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Will Cotton, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2007 Will Cotton: New Work On Paper, Glenn Horowitz
Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
2005 Will Cotton: New Paintings And Works On Paper, Michael Kohn Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2004 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Will Cotton, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Will Cotton, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
2002 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Will Cotton, Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany
Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Will Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Devil's Fudge Falls, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Will Cotton, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Will Cotton, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Distentions, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2020 Comfort, Friedman Benda, New York, January 9 – February 15.
2019 Like Sugar, Tang Teaching Museum At Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY
Drawn Together Again, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Castles In The Sky: Fantasy Architecture In Contemporary Art,
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s To Today, International
Print Center New York, New York, NY
Peers & Influences, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
2017 Really?, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About Face, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
Cake Hole, Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY
2016 Tom Friedman (+The Birthday Show), 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Summer School, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2015 Eye Pop: The Celebrity Gaze, The National Portrait Gallery,
Washington, D.C.
River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home, Olana State
Historic Site, Hudson, NY
The Triumph Of Love: Beth Rudin Dewoody Collects, Norton Museum Of
Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2014 Disturbing Innocence, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
Homeland [In]Security: Vanishing Dreams, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial
Programs, New York, NY
Close-Up: Contemporary Portraiture, Southampton Arts Center,
Southampton, NY
On The Blue Shore Of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY
Look At Me: Portraiture From Manet To The Present, Leila Heller Gallery,
New York, NY
Last Night, Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY
2013 Come Like Shadows: Palimpsests, Traces, Specters Of The Silver Screen,
Nightlife, Veils, The Absent Present, Zurcher Studio, New York, NY
Fruits Of Captiva, Robert Rauschenberg Project Space, New York, NY
2012 American Dreamers, Strozzina Centre For Contemporary Culture,
Florence, Italy
2011 Tous Cannibales, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2010 Divine Comedy, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Accessories To An Artwork, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY
2009 A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Transitions. Painting At The (Other) End Of Art, Maramotti Collection
Of Contemporary Art, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Aspects Of Pop Art, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland
Chelsea Visits Havana, Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff In American Art (Travelling Exhibition),
Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
Drawings By Will Cotton, Atlantic Center’s Pabst Visitor Center And
Gallery, New Smyrna, FL
Talk Dirty To Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Second Biennial Of The Canary Islands, Canary Islands
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists And Ed Ruscha, The Flag Art
Foundation, New York, NY
2007 In Monet's Garden: The Lure Of Giverny, Columbus Museum Of Art,
Columbus, OH
Sex & Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY
A House Is Not A Home, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff In American Art, Hudson River Museum,
Yonkers, NY
Horizon, Efa Gallery, New York, NY
Timer: Intima / Intimacy, La Triennale Di Milano, Milan, Italy
2006 The Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2004 The Big Eat: From Pop Til The Present, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2003 Giverny, Salon 94, New York, NY
Sweet Tooth, Copia, The American Center For Wine Food & The Arts,
Napa, CA
2002 The Contemporary Art Project, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2000 Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Coalition, Center On
Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
The Darker Side Of Playland: Childhood Imagery From The Logan,
San Francisco Museum Of Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 Will Cotton And Stuart Elster, Tate, New York, NY
A Room With A View, Sixth At Prince Fine Art, New York.