Willard Boepple

Willard Boepple, Lean To #2, 2024

2024

Boepple studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the Rhode Island School of Design and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He holds his BFA from City College of the City University of New York and has served as a faculty member at Bennington College and at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Special awards and honoursinclude National Academy Election, 2010 and Royal Society of British Sculptors, London Elected Fellow, 2001. He serves on the boards of the National Academy of Design and the Vermont Studio Center. In addition to an impressive exhibition record spanning over thirty years, the artist’s work is found in a number of key museum collections including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The National Gallery of Kenya, Nairobi and the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York among others. Recent solo shows include: Pamela Salisbury, Hudson New York, 2020 Reeves Contemporary, MASS MoCA Way, North Adams MA, 2018 FX Fowle Architects Gallery, New York, 2017 Broadbent Gallery, London, 2017 John Davis Gallery, Hudson, New York, 2016 Maddox Arts, London, 2015 Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, 2014 in conjunction with the launch of the Lund Humphries monograph, The Sense of Things: Willard Boepple Sculpture Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, 2012 Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, 2012 Century Association, New York, 2010 Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, 2008-2009 Broadbent, London, 2007–08 Maiden Lane Exhibition Space, New York, 2007-2008 London Art Fair, 2006 Salander O'Reilly, New York, 2004 Broadbent, London, 2003 and 2001 Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, RI, 2001 Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, 2000. Select group shows include: Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, New York, 2018 Art 3, New York, 2017 Walpole, New Hampshire, 2016 National Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, New York, 2015 Zurcher Gallery, New York, 2014 Freedman Art, New York, 2014 National Academy Museum, New York, 2014 Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, 2013-2011, 2009, 2007 Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, 2013 The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 2013 Poussin Gallery, London, 2011 Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, New York, 2010 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 2011 Palitz Gallery, Syracuse University Lubin House, 2010.