Will Mentor biography

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Born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 1958
Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Studied at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (B.F.A., 1981)

For the past twenty years I have been making paintings, prints, and more recently, digital animations that explore the relationship between authentic and mediated experience in contemporary image making. I have not sought to cohere my work through style but through the above inquiry. In my lithograph, I attempt to find a new pictorial and psychological space by locating it at an intersection between botanical illustrations, things-to-do lists, phone message pads, and diaries.

Selected Recent Exhibitions
2004	Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2003	Karolyn Sherwood Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2002	Abstraction, Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines What Will it Be?, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary
2001	Transpolyblu: A Digital Exposition, Eliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri Colors of Conscience, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa I Love NY, PPOW, New York Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Bionic Farm, Los Angeles, California Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois Accumulations, Kent State School of Art Gallery, Ohio
2000	What Was It?, Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary PPOW, New York Biotech, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan New Acquisitions, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon Cedar Rapids Art Museum
1999	Works on Paper: Enrique Chagoya, Will Mentor, Amy Stillman, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago Collaborations/Transformations, Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma

Selected Collections

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

Jersey City Museum, New Jersey

List Visual Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

The Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Iowa

The Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

The Newark Museum, New Jersey

University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque