Working mainly in the realm of painting, Binnie distills his pictorial language from a range of sources- films, photography, politics, history, and quotidian life. He confronts the American mythos – the imagery enshrouding a land with a complex and often dark and troubling past and present, cloaked in a smokescreen of stoic heroism- as well as larger concerns surrounding notions of power, nationalism, bigotry, war, land, death, and the visual markers connected to each in his works.
Education
MFA, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX, 2014
BA, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, CA, 2008
History of Art Program, University of Bristol, UK, 2007
Selected Solo/Two person Exhibitions
2022
Murmur, William Burton Binnie and Jeff Grant, Keijsers Koning, Dallas, TX
2017
Winter, LMAK Gallery, NY, NY
2016
What will become of us who want to believe, but cannot?, Paul Loya Gallery, LA, CA
2015
Flame As Flag, Paul Loya Gallery, LA, CA
2013
Terra Incognita, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
2013
Drawing, Painting, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2011
Web, Maloney Fine Art, LA, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
The Bunker: Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, FL
2019
deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
William Binnie, Liz Collins and Keith Lemley, Dallas Art Fair, LMAKgallery , Dallas, TX
2018-19
The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night, curated by Susan Cross, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Along the Edge, PDX Contemporary, Portland ,OR
2017
Really?, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, LA, CA
A Hazy Shade of Winter, curated by James Salomon, The Judy Black Memorial Park, Washington, CT
Legacy: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, VA
Flagged, UNO Gallery, University of New Orleans, LA
We need to talk, Outside, North Adams, MA
2016
Anxiety, curated by Tyler Gibney and Laura Watters, HVW8, LA, CA
Papered Stories: 14 Artists Dealing with Paper, LMAKgallery, NY, NY
False Flags, curated by Noah Simblist, Pelican Bomb, New Orleans, LA
Devil's in the Details, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
Drawing Quote Unquote, curated by Lorraine Tady, University of Texas at Dallas, TX
The Flat Files, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
2015
William Binnie & Cheryl Humphries, Paul Loya Gallery at PULSE Miami Beach, FL
Jupiter Island, curated by Lauren Fulton, Circuit 12, Dallas, TX
Xinla Bansho: Forest of Exponentials, curated by Kio Griffith, Paul Loya Gallery, LA, CA
Flashpoint, curated by Generic Art Solutions, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Public Service Announcement, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
2014
Everything is Better in Public, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX
Dense Fog Advisory, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
Redefine: Art and Rock'n'Roll, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Word, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
2013
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
Every Person is a Special Kind of Artist, with Baggage. Ballroom Marfa, Texas Biennial, Marfa, TX
Hit The Lights, Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Work on Paper, The Public Trust, Dallas, TX
Residencies and Awards:
2014 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist Residency, Captiva, FL
2012-2014 Arts Fellowship, Meadows Fellow, SMU Meadows School of the Arts,
2012-2014 Artistic Scholarship, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
2013 The Doolin Family Research Grant, SMU Meadows School of the Arts,
2008 Faculty Award Research Grant, Pitzer College,
Talks, Lectures, Visits
2016 Visiting artist/guest lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design
2016 Visiting artist/guest lecturer, Williams College
2016 Visiting artist/guest lecturer, Mount Holyoke College
2015 Craft and concept in the time of ‘Zombie Formalism’, The Oxbow School, Napa, CA
2014 Popular Suicide Destinations: Sacred Sites of Self-Death, SMU, Dallas, TX
2013 Cow: Raw meat and the vanitas still life, Perot Museum of Natural Science, Dallas, TX
2013 There and not there: The spectral drone, SMU, Dallas, TX
2013 Drawing and painting, a retrograde activity, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, March 2013
Other projects
Co-founder/co-director of BEEFHAUS, an artist-run art space and community center in Dallas, TX
Co-founder and member of ART BEEF, an artist collective and proprietors of BEEFHAUS
Bibliography
Lauren Smart, “Murmur, Review”, The Dallas Morning News, March 7, 2022
Jane Humphrey, “Fire Starter”, Modern Luxury Dallas, 2022
Biczel, Dorota, "False Flags," Art Papers, July/August 2016
Simblist, Noah, "False Flags," Terremoto, June 2016
Vikram, Anuradha, "Flame as Flag," Daily Serving, February 2015
Albrecht, Lauren, "William Binnie," Art Nerd Los Angeles, February 2015
Shaw, Michael, "Features," Visual Art Source, February 2015
Chassepot, Beatrice, "Emerging Selection," be-Art Magazine, February 2015
Graves, Jen, "This Meat," The Stranger, March 2013
Manitach, Amanda, "(F)art Jokes and Courtesans," City Arts, February 2013
Tocci, Piera, "William Binnie," Lost at E Minor, September 2012
Knudson, Rainey,“Highlights from Art Los Angeles Contemporary,” Glasstire, 2012