Artist Bio: William Downey
William Downey is a professional artist who works primarily in oils – specializing in landscape & portraiture, among other genres.
Downey studied Fine Art at the University of Waterloo, graduating with honours. He then went on to continue his studies in the graduate program at the University of Calgary, completing his MFA in 2014.
In 1997, he completed an Artist in Residence in the City of Kitchener and has been awarded many study scholarships., including the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Graduate Scholarship.
Downey has exhibited widely over Canada for the last two decades and has work in private and corporate collections.