William Hemmerdinger

William is an abstract painter and maker of collage and assemblage from California.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was encouraged in art by Stanton MacDonald – Wright, Lorser Feitelson, Millard Sheets and Nicholas Brigante. He studied art, architecture, philosophy and education at the University of California and Claremont Graduate University (MFA and Ph.D.) Hemmerdinger traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and Central America. Including living for a time in a Rinzai sect Zen Buddhist monastery in Japan.

An exhibiting artist with over 900 solo and group exhibitions his works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, (California), Provincetown Art Association Museum. He maintains a busy studio practice executing four to five paintings on canvas each year, watercolors, drawings, collages, assemblage and occasionally a Zen Garden.

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