User:Vilalongo

William Villalongo is a Brooklyn, NY based artist born 1975 in Hollywood, FL and raised in the town of Bridgeton, NJ. Villalongo's work was first introduced to the public through his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2004 and PS1 MOMA Contemporary Art Center's Greater NY 2005 exhibition. He is the recipient of both the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor's Grant. His work is included in several notable collections including the Studio Museum In Harlem, El Museo Del Barrio, Princeton University Art Museum and Grinnell College. His work has been reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, The New Yorker and the New York Times and Art In America.