Selected Exhibitions
2024
(Forthcoming)
Solo Show, Tentative title: Jungle Gym, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ opens in July
2023
Solo Show, POKE A HOLE IN THE WORLD, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Group Show, Trajectory , Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 3, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Diversity in the Desert, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 3, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Coming to Terms, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Group Show, Visual Syntax, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Group Show, The Future of Print Making, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
Group Show,15, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ
2022
Solo Show, BEYOND THE STARS, Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Group Show, Chaos Theory, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Beyond the Studio, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Artist + Researcher Exhibition, Phoenix Bioscience Core Campus and Terminal 4 gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2021
Solo Show, VISITATIONS, The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Socially Distanced, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Group Show, NOMAD, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA
Group Show, HMA Collective, Ironwood Projects, Sunnylope, AZ
Group Show, Artlink 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, FoundRE, Phoenix, AZ
2020
Group Show: Arizona Biennial 2020, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2 Person Show, Abstract Journeys of Mutation with Fausto Fernandez, Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, I Hear What You Are Seeing, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
2019
Group Show, The Snake Eats Its Tail, Joseph Gross Gallery (UofA), Tucson, AZ
Group Show, Art on a Cellular Level, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Alptraum (The Wandering Show) Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Group Show, Metempsychosis, AZOKOZA, Tempe, AZ
Group Show, Chaos Theory 20, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Winter Show, Green Leaf Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Favorite Things, Sisao Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Observation & Imagination, Royce Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2018
Solo Show, Energy Eaters, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Solo Show, Get ‘Em Into Those Bodies, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Arizona Biennial 2018, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
Group Show, Chaos Theory 19, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Anniversary Exhibition, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, PHX ART Now, Arizona State University Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2017
Solo Show, A Vein is a River, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Solo Show, Resilient Bodies, Chartreuse, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Chaos Theory 18, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, AltRealities, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ
Group Show, Good Wonder, Arizona State University Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ
Group Show, Abstraction in the Singular, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Abstract Miniatures, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ
2016
2-Person Show, The Naturalness of Strange Things: Abbey Messmer & Bill Dambrova, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Snow, The Coe House, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Chaos Theory 17, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Surfacing, Brill Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Then & Now, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Outside-In, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show, Mas Attack with ARTRA, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Group Show, Square 16, The Liquor Gallery, Tempe, AZ
2015
Solo Show, Your Thoughts are Not Your Own, Treeo, Phoenix, AZ
Solo Show, This Way to Earth, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, AZ45, Teiken Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ
Group Show, 10X10 Takes a Ride, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
Group Show, Chaos Theory 16, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Contemporary Forum Grant Winners Exhibition, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Yonderland, Treeo, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Gallery Fake, Eileen Braziel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show, Being Human, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ
2014
Solo Show, The Body Remembers What We Forget, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
4-Person Show, CROSSCURRENT, Phoenix Merchandise Mart Building, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Deconstructing Coyote, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show, Science Fiction Double Feature, Illuminiodal Arts, Long Beach, CA
Group Show, Chaos Theory 15, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Venice Beach VAC Artists Exhibition, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL
Group Show, Artists Across America, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Group Show, H2O, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Chimerical, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Pseudoscience, Frontal Lobe Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2013
Solo Show, The Body Believes in Images, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ
2-Person Show, The Space Between You and Me, Tasty Space, Las Vegas NV
Group Show, Meme Democracy, Illuminoidal Arts, Long Beach CA
Group Show, Arizona Biennial 2013, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Group Show, Invitational: 25 Years Downtown, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Group Show, Poly-Chrome, Illuminiodal Arts, Long Beach, CA
For exhibitions prior to 2013, please contact the artist via email at bill.dambrova@gmail.com
Education
Arizona State University, BA, Studio Art, graduated 1993
Selected Public Collections
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Arizona State University Art Museum
Art Farm Iowa
Carmody Foundation
City of Tempe
DuPont
Kemin Industries
Kroger Inc.
Meow Wolf
Mesa Community College
Mesa Contemporary Art Museum
Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art
Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Museum
Phoenix Suns Legacy Partners LLC
Scottsdale Arts (City of Scottsdale)
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
State of New Mexico: Art in Public Places Program
Tucson Museum of Art
Awards
2021 The National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association Honor Award Judges Choice for Art – Phoenix Sky Harbor Sky Train with Advance Terrazzo
2021 Ted Decker Catalyst Fund, Phoenix, AZ
2014 Contemporary Forum Artist Grant, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
Public Art
From the Earth to the Sky is a 6000 sqft terrazzo floor design that I created based on my paintings located at the Phoenix Sky Harbor Rental Car Return Sky Train Station. Facilitated by The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.
Through Valley Metro ArtsLIne, a sixteen foot by forty-foot digital reproduction of a five-panel eight foot by fifteen-foot painting on canvas called We Are Playful but We Are Not Playing Games was temporarily installed at the Central and Roosevelt Light Rail Station for three months in 2018. Reproductions of the painting were printed on train and bus cards and displayed on over 500 busses and several trains.
The City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture commissioned me to create a five foot by twelve-foot painting for Fry’s Marketplace in Peoria, AZ in 2017. The Painting called Floaters depicts the beauty of the surrounding desert.
Collaborations
2021 I was one of 12 artists selected by curator Marisa Flórido Cesar to collaborate with master printer Brent Bond of Santo Press for Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art's Trajectory Print Project.
2018 I was invited and commissioned to paint a mural inside of MEOW WOLFs House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe, NM. Facilitated by Caity Kennedy.
2015 Dance choreographer Douglas Nielson commissioned me to paint on ten eighteen-inch boxes for a dance performance titled If You Don’t Leave Me I’ll Find Someone Who Will at the Stevie Eller Theater in Tucson, AZ. Performers wore dresses and bowties with my original artwork printed on it while interacting with the boxes.
2015 Art360 at the Arizona Science Center. Ten of my paintings were selected and turned into animations that were then projected onto the Dorrance Planetarium Dome Screen to music for public viewing throughout the month of June.
Workshops and Lectures
2021 The Body Believes in Images, The Murial McLatchie Memorial Lecture, Association of Medical Illustrators Conference
2021 VISIONS, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2020-21 Navigating Digital Files for Public Artists Online Workshops, City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Cultures
2018 Pop-Up Studio, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Critters! Drawing Workshop in collaboration with the ASU Natural History Collections and The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2017 Make It: Shade Scoopers, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
2016 Painting Workshop, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
2015 Celestial Rendering: Visual Art Residency, Chaparral High School, Scottsdale, AZ
2015 Kaleidoscope workshop, Scottsdale Public Arts, Scottsdale, AZ
Relevant Experience: 1999-Present
Museum Exhibition Designer/ Consultant specializing in conceptual planning, exhibition development, design, art direction, project management, art installation, and graphic design services for museums, aquariums, zoos, and visitor centers.
Selected Exhibition Design Client and Employer List
American Alliance of Museums, The Aquarium of the Pacific, The Birch Aquarium, Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Desert Botanical Garden, Discovery Place, The Heard Museum, J Paul Getty Center and Villa, Lexington, The Los Angeles Zoo, Mokupapapa Discovery Center, The Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Association of Museum Exhibitions, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Navajo Nation Museum, New York Botanical Garden, OdySea in the Desert Aquarium, The Page Museum, The Phoenix Art Museum, Quatrefoil, River of Time Museum, The San Diego Natural History Museum, Scottsdale Historical Society, Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Valley Metro, West Windsor Township Environmental Commission, Ziegler Fiesta Bowl Museum