William Scott

William Scott was born in 1964 and started working at Creative Growth in 1992. He is a highly skilled self-taught painter and social theorist who creates utopian visions of the past, present, and future. Scott’s fundamental interest lies in reimagining public and private life as a more peaceful and positive existence. This manifests in his paintings in several genres; self-portraits, architectural renderings, portraits of pop culture icons, and imaginings of a peace-loving future.

Scott has had solo exhibitions at White Columns and Ortuzar Projects in New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery and the Museum of Everything, London; BAMPFA, Berkeley; Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Ricco Maresca, New York; and Gallery Paule Anglim, Minnesota Street Project, and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco. Scott’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, MADmusée in Belgium, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Oakland Museum of California, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.