William Sorvillo

William Sorvillo believes that art is capable of three things: “If it’s good, it’ll make you think. If it's great, it will make you feel and if it’s genius, it will inspire.”

His art, which consists of independent works, commissions and murals, has appeared in Vanity Fair and on The Bloomberg Channel and has been shown in galleries around the globe from New York City and Brooklyn to Miami, Santa Fe and South Korea. In Seoul, his painting Malagueñas was the flagship piece for the US-South Korea International Art Show during the 2018 Olympics.

Sorvillo started his artistic studies at the age of six. At fifteen, he began having lucid dreams of future paintings which continue to inform his work to this day. He feels that he is a conduit and that his artwork is an expression of those experiences. From spiritual and religious themes to perspectives on social and civil rights, love and loss, his work is tied together by his passion for authentic expression.

The son of an Episcopal priest, Sorvillo has sought to deepen his knowledge of his craft and his understanding of the human condition by exploring art and spirituality from various perspectives. He has studied with Lakota Medicine Men on the reservations of South Dakota, Buddhist monks in Japan, yogis in the caves of the Himalayas, a shaman from Peru, and an East Indian teacher in Key West, FL.

He has lived with Hindu swamis in the south of India where he taught tantric yoga, and with Augustinian monks in San Gimignano, where he studied the Renaissance masters in Florence, Italy. His continued interest in eastern cultures inspired him to obtain a Masters of Science and Oriental Medicine while he painted and showed his artwork in Santa Fe, NM.

Sorvillo presently lives and creates in Bushwick, Brooklyn with his wife and their four cats. His artwork continues to expose his unbridled curiosity and reflect his unwillingness to acquiesce to traditional expectations.

Shows:

Sep 2022 - Oct 2022: “Edges” with Galeria Azur Pop Up via Quebracho Framing, Bushwick, Brooklyn NY

Sep 2022 - Oct 2022: “Kunst & Klima VI” Novum Investments Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

Sep 2020 - Oct 2020: “Ustopia” at Galleria Ca’ d’Oro, Chelsea, New York

Nov 2019 - May 2020: “Play Me” by Mitte Projects & Wynwood Arts 29, Miami, Florida

Sep 2019: Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York

Feb 2018: “Korea-US International Contemporary Art Exhibition” at Chosun-Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (Group Exhibition)

Mar 2017: Drift Studio. Chelsea, New York (Solo Show)

Sep 2015: Drift Studio. Chelsea, New York (Solo Show)

Jun 2015: The Rookery, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York (Solo Show)

Jun 2014: The Jeffersonian. Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York

Jun 2013: The Jeffersonian. Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York

Jun 2012: The Jeffersonian. Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York

Sep 2011: Swoope Gallery. Orlando, Florida (Solo Show)

Jun 2011: The Luxx Hotel. Santa Fe, NM (Solo Show)

Sep 2010:  “The New Renaissance”, Alan Day Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Aug 2010: Art Space. Santa Fe, NM (Co-Feature with 2nd Artist)

May 2010: Alan Day Gallery. Santa Fe, NM

Apr 2010: Art Roxx, Santa Fe, NM