William Easton (artist)

William Easton is Scottish artist and curator and writer, His performances, films and art works have been shown extensively including exhibitions at the ICA 1984, London, Bornholm Art Museum in Denmark 2004, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw at the Ujazdów Castle1991, Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York 1992, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas city 2002 and at The Kitchen, in NY.2001

As a curator he has presented programs of art and design at a number of places including exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Skulpturens Hus, [ [http://www.konsten.net/arkivet/fas4.html Skulpturens Hus, Liljeholmen: "Fas 4" (19/6-26/8)] ] The Baltic Art Centre in Visby and The Centre of Contemporary Art in Szczecin Poland. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship, William Townsend Memorial Scholarship and the Betty Park Award For Critical Writing.

Education

1984 First Class BFA honours degree from Slade School of Fine Art in London
1989 and a Merit Scholar, MFA from The School of the Chicago Art Institute
1991 The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York.

Publications

* "Business Superbrands" ed. Louisa Skylderman Superbrands, Stockholm 2008 ISBN 978-1-905652-46-4
* "Common Ground Around Britain With Thirty Writers" Editor: Simmons, John, CYAN BOOKS 2006 ISBN 9781904879930
* "Piper Sheperd" Telos Art Publishing, 2003 ISBN 1902015819
* "Play", Arena, 1997 ISBN 91-7843-122-0

Easton has been teaching in art, design, advertising, and philosophy for more than 20 years at graduate and undergraduate levels in Sweden the USA, the UK, Canada and Poland. For the last three years he has been rektor at Berghs School of Communication [ [http://www.berghs.se/ Berghs School of Communication] ] and is currently head of Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm.

He is the author of the book "Play" and a contributor to the work "The Bio-apparatus". As well as having written several artist monographs he has published for numerous magazines internationally. He has worked as English editor for magazines such as Material in Stockholm and the international magazine of Baltic arts Mare Articum [Cite web|url=http://marearticum.szczecin.art.pl/|title=Mare Articum [ the Baltic Art Magazine ] |accessdate=2008-10-07] His work “Playing Polo with Pinter” was published in the anthology Common Ground in 2007.

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