Born 1954 Detroit
BFA Wayne State University, Detroit, 1976

DIA Detroit Institute of Arts 1976 & 77
Studio Assistant to sculptor Sylvia Stone, NYC & Boiceville, 1978
Dia Art Foundation 1979-present
La Monte Young’s Dream House 1979-1985
Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room since 1989

William Dilworth lives and works in New York City and Upper Jay, New York. Born & educated in Detroit, Bill has lived on the LES of NYC for thirtyseven years and has spent the past seventeen summers in the Adirondacks. In the 80’s he showed work in the Lower East Side. In the 90’s he participated in group shows in Soho. More recently he has shown work at Le C’neai in Chatou, France, at Dartmouth College, and in the Adirondacks. In 2012 Bill put together and showed in Hardscrabble/Tough  AuSable Forks/Detroit at the Tahawas Lodge Center in AuSable Forks, New York. Last year Bill showed a 12’ x 10’ Woven Limb painting in BIG PAINTINGS, The Midland Invitational in Highland Park, Detroit. This summer Bill will be showing as a founding member of the Inhabitants of Ether Island at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York.
He takes care of The New York Earth Room for the Dia Art Foundation. He also takes care of the oldest tower clock in New York City at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church in the Lower East Side. He has been called The Keeper of Earth and Time.
You can see a WNYC Culture’s Video Profile of Bill at wnyc.org<http://wnyc.org/> & on YouTube

2015  Feet Finger and Hand Paintings,Fox Gallery NYC,  virtual tour

2015  Inhabitants of Ether Island, Wagner College, Staten Island,

2014 BIG Paintings at the Factory, Midland Invitational, Highland Park, Detroit
2013 City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2012 Hardscrabble/Tough  AuSable Forks/Detroit, Tahawas Lodge Center, NY
2011 Tracks & Tracking, Wells Memorial Library, Upper Jay, NY
2011 Living With Art, Ryota Pi Gallery, Harlem, NY
2010 Exit Detroit, Lady Bug Gallery, Detroit, MI.
2009 Dartmouth College Lutheran Church & Student Center, Hanover, NH
2009 We’ll Know When We Get There, C’neai, Chatou, France
2009 Gofora Swim, UJAC Upper Jay Art Center, Upper jay, NY
2006 Ryota Pi Gallery, Harlem, NY
2005 Telephone Factory, Atlanta, GA.
2002 Arndt Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2001 Jay Studio Tours, Upper Jay, NY
2000 Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY
2000 The Corscaden Barn, Keene Valley, NY
1991 A/C Project Room, NYC
1989 Anne Plumb Gallery, NYC
1984 WSU/NYC, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
1981 Conspicuous Consumption, ABC No Rio, New York City
1976 Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, Michigan
1975 Another Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

2013 Ground, Materiality, Soro Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2012 Well Grounded, ACNE Paper
2012 As the Earth Turns, Opening Ceremony
2010 Cultivating the Art, Log, Observations on architecture and the contemporary city
2010 Another Type of Time, Art Lies
2010 The New York Earth Room and its Caretaker, Design Feaster
2009 Bill and the Earth Room, Rough Fractals
2007 Leah Singer on Bill Dilworth, Q & A qandamagazine, CT Editions
1998 Suddenly Summer ‘98, The New York Press
1975 These Weeks Magazine, Ann Arbor, MI.