Bill Santen, b. Lexington, Kentucky 1975
Lives and works in Buffalo, New York

MFA,   School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY   (2011)
BA,   College of Fine Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY   (2009)

For music recorded under birddog please visit: billsanten.com/birddog

Studio Contact
info@billsanten.com

Gallery Contact
SGORBATI PROJECTS
info@sgorbatiprojects.com sgorbatiprojects.com

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2020
  • Waiting around for Paul
    Hotel Henry, Buffalo NY
    PLAY/GROUND
    Organized by
    Resource:Art /
    Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art
    artplaygroundny.com

2019
  • Home Alone
    Good Naked, Brooklyn, NY
    Bill Santen, Tom Andersen, Manuela Gonzalez, Marc Librizzi
    Installations by: Corydon Cowansage, Vincent Stracquadanio
    www.goodnakedgallery.com

2017
  • Rocko Ramdin
    Gallery4Culture / e4c: Electronic Gallery, Seattle, WA
    Public Video Screens: 101 Prefontaine Place South
    www.4culture.org
  • King of the Cockroaches
    Becky Brown, Daniel Lichtman, Bill Santen, Jess Willa Wheaton
    Hercules Art Center, New York, NY
  • King of the Cockroaches
    Becky Brown, Martha Clippinger, Rachel Goodwin,
    Daniel Lichtman, Bill Santen, Jess Willa Wheaton
    Music by Charles Latham
    Guest Room, Carrboro, NC
  • WE NEED TO TALK...
    Artists and the public respond to the present conditions in America
    Screening Reel
    Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
  • Beyond Patience & Fortitude
    Screening of
    The First Inauguration of Barack Obama January 20, 2009
    City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization, New York, NY
2016
  • Dark Green
    Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, BC
    Screening associated with Daniel Lichtman: Get Straight or Die
  • The Things I Carried
    Blue Star Arts Complex, San Antonio, TX
  • We're Talking About Practice
    Visual Arts Center Gallery / San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
    Curated by Norbert Clyde Martinez, Jr.
2015
  • Food Systems, Surroundings & Sensibilities: HarvestHærfest
    The Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), Bronx, NY
    Curated by Gail Nathan and Christie Gonzalez
  • Rocko Ramdin, Mr. Whales
    Sgorbati Projects, New York, NY
  • The Dreams That I Gave Her
    NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
    Curated by Kelli Burton and Yulia Topchiy
  • Is The Actor Happy?
    Carousel Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2014
  • Maybe I'm Just a Revisionist
    Sgorbati Projects, New York, NY
  • FutureVisions
    Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
  • The One Minute Film Festival
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Bill Santen Works on Film
    Coworker Projects, New York, NY
  • Of Other Spaces
    Court Square Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2012
  • Common Senses. MoMA Studio: Mildred's Lane & The Mildred Comp1eX(ity)
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Three Points Make a Triangle
    Queens Inernational Biennial
    Queens Museum, Queens, NY
  • That This Is
    Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
  • Nature Deficit Disorder
    Court Square Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2011
  • Red Coat Column Kite, Film and Images from the Golden Ecke
    Cleopatra’s Gallery, Berlin, Germany;
    Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Poland
  • Road to Nowhere
    TRUE STORIES
    MASC Foundation, Vienna, Austria
  • Cinema Zero, 16mm films
    Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
  • A Failed Entertainment
    LOT Gallery, Louisville, KY;
    Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
    Curated by Sam Ekwurtzel