About the Artist

Bill Schenck was born in Ohio in 1947, where he later attended the Columbus College of Art and Design from 1965-1967. After transferring to the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1969. In 1971he began working in New York City for Andy Warhol. At age 24 he had his first solo show in New York, which sold out. He subsequently had four solo shows in New York City and one in Brussels, Belgium. During this time he also exhibited in many group shows in France, Italy and Switzerland. In the mid-1970s, seeking a simpler lifestyle emulated in his paintings, Schenck moved to the West, splitting his time between Arizona and Wyoming. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1997.