Selected Exhibitions
Forthcoming March 2023 (Opening party is in May 2023)
Solo Show, POKE A HOLE IN THE WORLD, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ, Curated by Tiffany Fairall
2023
Group Show, The Future of Print Making, Mesa Community College, Mesa, AZ
2022
Group Show, Chaos Theory, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, invited by Randy Slack
Group Show, Beyond the Studio, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4, Phoenix, AZ, Curated By Gary Martelli
Solo Show, Artist + Researcher Exhibition, Phoenix Bioscience Core Campus and other locations, Phoenix, AZ, Invited by the Art in Medicine Program and Bentley Gallery.
Solo Show, BEYOND THE STARS, Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Invited by Yun Gee Park and Scott Duerstock
2021
Solo Show, VISITATIONS, The Ice House, Phoenix, AZ, Invited by Jayme Blue
Group Show, Socially Distanced, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, Curated by Laura Hales
Group Show, NOMAD, Medical Center Building, Torrance, CA, Invited by Grant Vetter and Max Presniell
Group Show, HMA Collective, Ironwood Projects, Sunnylope, AZ, Organized by Fausto Fernandez
Group Show, Artlink 21st Annual Juried Exhibition, FoundRE, Phoenix, AZ, Selected by a panel of curators (Honorable Mention)
2020
Group Show: Arizona Biennial 2020, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Curated by Joe Baker
2 Person Show, Abstract Journeys of Mutation with Fausto Fernandez, Mood Room, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Wendy Raisanen
Group Show, I Hear What You Are Seeing, Center Space at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, Curated by Laura Hales
2019
Group Show, The Snake Eats Its Tail, Joseph Gross Gallery (UofA), Tucson, AZ Curated by Kristin Bauer and Brooke Grucella
Group Show, Art on a Cellular Level, Sky Harbor Airport Museum, Terminal 4 Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated By Gary Martelli and Haley Hinds
Group Show, Alptraum (The Wandering Show) Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Marcus Sendlinger with Grant Vetter
Group Show, Metempsychosis, AZOKOZA, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Thaddeus Mace Wike
Group Show, Chaos Theory 20, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, Winter Show, Green Leaf Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Bassim Al-Shaker
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ, Invitational
Group Show, Favorite Things, Sisao Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Laura Dragon
Group Show, Observation & Imagination, Royce Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ, Curated by Nicole Royce
2018
Solo Show, Energy Eaters, Eric Fischl Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Jay Hardin
Solo Show, Get ‘Em Into Those Bodies, Stark Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Frances McMahon Ward
Group Show, Arizona Biennial 2018, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Curated by Rebecca R. Hart
Group Show, Chaos Theory 19, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ, Invitational
Group Show, Anniversary Exhibition, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Lisa Olson
Group Show, PHX ART Now, Arizona State University Step Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Grant Vetter
2017
Solo Show, A Vein is a River, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Curated by Max Presneill
Solo Show, Resilient Bodies, Chartreuse, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Nancy Hill
Group Show, Chaos Theory 18, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, AltRealities, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, AZ, Curated by Tiffany Fairall
Group Show, Good Wonder, Arizona State University Gallery 100, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Lily Reeves
Group Show, Abstraction in the Singular, Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Grant Vetter
Group Show, Abstract Miniatures, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Grant Vetter
Group Show, Art D’ Core Gala, Warehouse 215, Phoenix, AZ, Invitational
2016
2-Person Show, The Naturalness of Strange Things: Abbey Messmer & Bill Dambrova, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Nicole Royce
Group Show, Snow, The Coe House, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Constance McBride
Group Show, Chaos Theory 17, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, Surfacing, Brill Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Tara Sharpe
Group Show, Then & Now, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Abbey Messmer and Rafael Navarro
Group Show, Outside-In, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM, Curated by Eileen Braziel
Group Show, Mas Attack with ARTRA, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Grant Vetter and Max Presneill
Group Show, Square 16, The Liquor Gallery, Tempe, AZ, Curated by Matt Dixon
2015
Solo Show, Your Thoughts are Not Your Own, Treeo, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Stacey Champion, Ashley Harder and Joe Brklacich
Solo Show, This Way to Earth, Practical Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Lisa Olson
Group Show, AZ45, Teiken Gallery, Paradise Valley, AZ, Curated by Fred Teiken
Group Show, 10X10 Takes a Ride, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, Invitational
Group Show, Chaos Theory 16, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, Contemporary Forum Grant Winners Exhibition, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Invitational
Group Show, Yonderland, Treeo, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Stacey Champion, Ashley Harder and Joe Brklacich
Group Show, Gallery Fake, Eileen Braziel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Curated by Eileen Braziel
Group Show, Being Human, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Abbey Messmer and Rafael Navarro
2014
Solo Show, The Body Remembers What We Forget, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Nicole Royce
4-Person Show, CROSSCURRENT, Phoenix Merchandise Mart Building, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Steve Hanson
Group Show, Deconstructing Coyote, GF Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Curated by Eileen Braziel
Group Show, Science Fiction Double Feature, Illuminiodal Arts, Long Beach, CA, Curated by Leah Shane Dixon
Group Show, Chaos Theory 15, Legend City, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Randy Slack
Group Show, Venice Beach VAC Artists Exhibition, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL, Curated by Sunny Bak
Group Show, Artists Across America, Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena, CA, Curated by Daniel Rolnik
Group Show, H2O, The Lodge, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Abbey Messmer and Rafael Navarro
Group Show, Chimerical, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Amy Young
Group Show, Pseudoscience, Frontal Lobe Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Beatrice Moore
2013
Solo Show, The Body Believes in Images, Eye Lounge, Phoenix, AZ, Invited by Abbey Messmer
2-Person Show, The Space Between You and Me, Tasty Space, Las Vegas NV, Curated by Dana Satterwhite
Group Show, Meme Democracy, Illuminoidal Arts, Long Beach CA, Curated by Leah Shane Dixon
Group Show, Arizona Biennial 2013, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux
Group Show, Invitational: 25 Years Downtown, Shade Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, Curated by Justin Germain
Group Show, Poly-Chrome, Illuminiodal Arts, Long Beach, CA, Curated by Leah Shane Dixon
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 State University Art Museum
Art Farm Iowa
City of Tempe
DuPont
Kemin Industries
Kroger Inc.
Meow Wolf
Mesa Community College
Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport Museum
Phoenix Suns Legacy Partners LLC
Scottsdale Arts (City of Scottsdale)
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