1. William Powhida was born on 1976 and is an American visual artist and former art critic.
12 Facts About William Powhida
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William Powhida received his Master of Fine Arts in painting from Hunter College in January 2002.
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In 2004, William Powhida began compiling lists of enemies, rendering portraits of each enemy in graphite and gouache with insults written beneath each face.
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William Powhida followed up his initial enemy lists with a Seattle Enemies List specific to the Pacific Northwest, targeting Tacoma-based artist Dale Chihuly and the Northern spotted owl among others.
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The New York magazine blog was featured in a New York magazine front cover, for William Powhida's show at the Schroeder Romero Gallery in 2007.
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William Powhida produced a drawing called "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality" for the November 2009 cover of the Brooklyn Rail.
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The work features caricatures of individuals involved in the controversial New Museum exhibition, including Jeff Koons as Howdy Doody, which Edward Winkleman remarked is ironic considering how much William Powhida's work owes to Koons.
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New Museum trustee at the center of the controversy, Dakis Joannou, bought a print of William Powhida's drawing from his New York dealer for $1,500.
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William Powhida later responded to criticism in an article published on the Art:21 blog.
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William Powhida suggested that a museum commission Powhida to produce a one-year-long project that would result in a fifteen feet high, twenty feet wide drawing of the art world as it is today.
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William Powhida has long collaborated with artist Jennifer Dalton, who worked with him to produce art world condolence cards for Art Basel in 2008 and co-directed a hypothetical, post-apocalyptic art gallery for William Powhida's exhibition The Writing Is on the Wall.
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In 2007, William Powhida collaborated with Jeff Parker on the book Back of the Line published by Decode.