William Papaleo has been painting and working with light, color and atmosphere for 40 years. He first started with Henry Henche at the Cape school of Art and Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League, New York He is an American artist who has lived and worked in Italy for thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. He has received various awards in international and juried shows in Italy and America. He has been in the juried show at the IAMLA Museum in Los Angeles where his painting is in their permanent collection. His drawings for his public Sculpture in Waterbury Connecticut are in the permanent collection of the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. In Santa Monica, California at the MRT he presented a series of large landscapes for the preservation of the Great Native American Trail. At Sindin Galleries in New York, 1994 he was presented with a group of emerging artists to show with Picasso, Matisse and Diego Rivera.

In the past few years in Naples and Salerno, Italy there have been large exhibitions dedicated to art and immigration. In New York, there was a large retrospective at the Westchester Italian Cultural Center (2015) and at the John D. Calandra Institute in Manhattan (2017). In 2016 at the Municipio Castle in Naples Italy he presented a large retrospective show.

Presently he is being represented by Wohlfarth Galleries in Washington D.C. and AEC Gallery in Enna, Sicily in Italy. He has exhibited with La Lupa Italian Arts foundation in Los Angeles and the Museo Citta’ Creativa in Salerno Italy. He continues to conduct art workshops for American and European Universities in Italy and America.

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