William Conlon was educated at the School of Visual Arts (CERT 1963) and Yale School of Art & Architecture (BFA and MFA 1967). He is presently Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts, Fordham University. Conlon’s practice is committed to advancing the tradition of abstraction. Over a long career he has developed a dictionary of iconic shapes and forms along with color that interact in a complex and ambiguous pictorial space. His paintings present to the viewer a visual metaphor of the complexity and fragility of our time.

His work is in the following collections: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Cincinnati Art Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Everson Museum, Syracuse; and the Grand Rapids Art Museum.