William Conger is a Chicago-based abstract painter whose work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in the US in more than thirty one-person exhibitions since 1964. His most recent one-person exhibitions were at Vendome Gallery in NYC in 2014 and at the Tarble Museum at the University of Illinois at Charleston IL. His work has been included in many invitational group exhibitions since 1958 and these include national travel museum exhibitions. He also exhibites regulalrly at Zolla Lieberman Gallery and Printworks Gallery in Chicago and at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, MO. Museum collections of his work include The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Wichita Museum of Art , KS, The Madsion Museum of Contemporary Art MMoCA, WI, The Illinois State Museum, IL and many university art museums plus public and corporate collections. A full-scale retrospective of his paintings, " William Conger - Paintings 1958-2008" was presented at The Chicago Cultural Center in 2009-10. He has completed public art commissions in Chicago and commissioned paintings for private collectors in IL, FL, GA, and IN. He regularly lectures and writes on art. Published reviews and commentary on his work appear in ArtNew, Art in America, ArtForum, Art Criticism, Art Papers, and in numerous newspapers, catalogs and books. His awards include a Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2010, Illinois Arts Council Grants in 2010 and 2012 and election as "Distinguished Artist" at the Union League Club of Chicago. William Conger's career biography is included in biographical references: Whos Who in America; Who's Who In American Art, and others. His published commentary on art has apeared in Critical Inquiry, Linguistic Sciences, White Walls, and other periodicals and books. His career papers are held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art and at the Northwestern University Library Archives. William Conger is professor emeritus of art theory and practice at Northwestern University.