Bill Davison, a seventh-generation Vermonter, was born in Burlington in 1941. He was educated at Albidon College and received an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan in 1966. Davison established the printmaking program in the Department of Art at the University of Vermont, where he taught for 36 years before retiring in 2003.
Davison’s use of the mechanized, rotary printing press in the late 60's and 70's were seminal in the United States, and acknowledged in a nationwide traveling exhibition curated by Richard Feild. In 1990, after several years of researching as a visiting artist at M.I.T. in Boston, Davison was given an “Award of Distinction” at Prix Art Electronica in Linz, Austria, a worldwide competition for art, music, and film created with computer intervention. His prints have appeared in more than 120 group exhibitions in Europe, Asia, and America. Solo shows beyond Vermont and New England have been in Scotland, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Collections include the MoMA, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, many corporations and universities, and the Library of Congress.
Davison has received three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a MacDowell Fellowship, and a Brandywine Workshop Residency award. He currently makes unique prints using water-based pigments.
