Frank Webster is a painter who lives in Queens, NY. Webster received his B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his M.F.A. from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Webster is the recipient of numerous awards including a Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant, the NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock Krasner and the Golden Foundation Individual Artist Award. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, nationally, and abroad. He has been awarded residencies at NES Artist Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Painting Space 122, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Ucross Foundation, The Corporation of Yaddo, The Ragdale Foundation and MacDowell among others. In June of 2022 he participated in the spring expedition of the Arctic Circle Residency.
During his residencies, Webster worked on paintings for one of his early shows in New York. Cheney Studio, he says, was a big part of his MacDowell experience: "I remember the walk from my [dormitory] to the studio, the view of Mount Monadnock, and making drawings on the porch overlooking the woods."
Portrait by Tyler Morgan
