Katherine and Tom Belk Visual Art Center

On Site Exhibition
Artists Image

  • William Villalongo (American, b. 1975) x

William Villalongo lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in 1975 in Hollywood, FL and raised in the town of Bridgeton, NJ. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture residency. Villalongo's creative output involves studio practice, writing and curatorial projects. His figurative paintings, works on paper and sculpture are concerned with representing the Black subject against notions of race and explore metaphors for mythology, way-finding and liberation.

Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee, by William Villalongo
  • William Villalongo
  • Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee,, 2020
Acrylic, drinking gourds, beads, velvet flock, glitter flock, velour paper and pigment print mounted on hardboard