WILLIAM HENRY PRICE
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WILLIAM HENRY PRICE grew up exploring the creeks and fields near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He received an MFA degree from Rutgers, Mason Gross School of Art, and a BFA from Boston University. BU provided a classical training in figurative painting, but while there William was also greatly influenced by Phillip Guston. 

He taught painting and design at Seton Hall University for seven years before becoming co-director of the Cross-Cultural Institute in New York, a non-profit dedicated to inter-cultural cooperation and exchange. More recently he has taught Contemporary Art History and Drawing at Western Carolina University.

William’s paintings, often intricately detailed, express his lifelong enthusiasm for nature and mythology. “I'm painting inside the visible world, where everything is vibrant and alive." His writings and lectures on the arts of many cultures are narrated with the practicality and purpose of a working contemporary artist, and they also provide a set of poetic annotations to his own artistic iconography.

Education has been a lifelong endeavor, and William has taught college, high school, children and adults.
“The first principle of art is appreciation, and appreciation is indeed the basis of ritual art in natural societies. As science now moves beyond its materialist period, this primary function of art - reciprocity with the invisible - is re-emerging as essential.”
The paintings of William Henry Price have been exhibited in many galleries and museums including Chase Young Gallery, Boston; Momentum Gallery, NC; the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, CT; Waverly Gallery, NYC; National Academy of Design, NYC; Allentown Art Museum, PA; and the Fayetteville Museum of Art, NC.

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William Henry Price is represented by Momentum Gallery in Asheville, NC
EDUCATION
  • M.F.A. in Painting,  Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Fine Arts  1989
  • B.F.A. in Painting,  Boston University, School of Fine Arts  1974
  • Studies with Martin Prechtel at Bolad’s Kitchen, Ojo Caliente, NM, a rigorous school devoted to indigenous art and mythology   2005 - 2009
  • Studied Sacred Geometry at Kairos  in England and at Chartres Cathedral with Keith Critchlow  2003, 2004, 2005
  • Studied Lindisfarne Gospels and related Medieval Manuscripts for one week at the British Library, 2005
  • Studied and performed Frame Drums with Glen Velez  1990-96
  • Graduate of Don Campbell’s “Therapeutic Sound School”  1993
  • Certified “Music For People” teacher, a four year training program  1995

EXPERIENCE
  • Public Studio in the River Arts District, Asheville, NC
  • Western Carolina University, Adjunct Professor of Art    2007-09   Contemporary Art History, Introduction to Visual Art, Drawing II
  • Seton Hall University, Adjunct Professor of Art  1986-1993  Taught courses in Painting and Design
  • Co-director, Cross-Cultural Studies Program   1993-98.  CCSP is a non-profit institute dedicated to inter-cultural communication and cooperation through education, community service and liaison projects. Collaborations with Native American and Tibetan Elders as well as Asians and South Americans. Organized conferences, taught classes and designed an interdisciplinary curriculum.
  • New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Painting Instructor  1983-84
  • Vermont Music & Art Center, Art Director, summer  1982
  • Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ, a private secondary school, Art Instructor,  1974-76  Taught courses in Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Design, Art History, American Art History
  • Art Director, Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County,  2000 – 02  Conducted drumming classes, coordinated music, theater and visual arts programs and performances
  • Numerous workshops, classes, lectures & demonstrations on Art, Music, and Culture
  • Performer and Teacher of Percussion, especially Frame Drums
  • Member of Executive Committee of The Gallery of South Orange in NJ  1994-96
  • Violist with the South Orange Symphony  1982-1996
  • Violist with the Blue Ridge Orchestra, various freelance orchestras and ensembles

​FELLOWSHIPS
  • Heliker-LaHotan Foundation, Residency, Great Cranberry Island, Maine - September, 2016, 2017
  • Hambidge Center - Georgia, Residency,  March, 2014
  • Brendan Byrne Fellowship, 1989


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
  • ​Momentum Gallery, Asheville, NC,  2019
  • "Impressions", Chase Young Gallery, Boston,  2018
  • Upstairs Artspace, Tryon NC, 2013, 2016, 2017
  • Transylvania Arts Council Exhibition, Brevard, NC, 2016
  • "Spectrum 2016", Hunter Museum, GA, 2016
  • The Design Gallery, Burnsville, NC,   2013, 2014, 2015
  • Western Carolina University, Faculty Exhibition,  2008
  • Miya Gallery, Weaverville, NC  2006, 2007
  • Fayetteville Museum of Art, “Artists of Asheville”, NC  2003
  • Artists’ Roundtable, Asheville, NC  2005, 2004, 2003
  • Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ  1995
  • Pyramid Gallery, New York, “The Jane Doe Show”  1990
  • Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ  1989
  • Yale Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT  1989
  • Rabbet Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ  1989
  • Korby Gallery, Cedar Grove, NJ  1987, 1988
  • New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ  1983, 1984
  • Waverly Gallery, New York  1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, “Spectrum ‘79”  1979
  • Allentown Art Museum Annual, Allentown, PA  1978
  • National Academy of Design Annual, New York  1977

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
  • Ongoing open studio, Asheville, NC
  • Pink Dog Gallery, Asheville, NC, 2011
  • Front Gallery, Asheville, NC  2004
  • Unitarian Universalist Church, Hendersonville, NC  2000
  • Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ  1995
  • Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia, PA  1990
  • Walters Gallery, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ  1989
  • Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ  1987
  • Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ  1985,1979
  • Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT  1982
  • New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ  1982
  • Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ  1982
  • York College, York, PA  1981
  • Annie S. Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, PA  1978

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