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Frank Webster is a painter who lives in New York, NY. Webster received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Webster is the recipient of numerous awards including the NYFA Fellowship in Painting, the Pollock Krasner and the Golden Foundation Individual Artist Award. He has shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York at Isabel Sullivan Gallery, Blackston Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Sara Meltzer Gallery and White Columns, to name a few. Webster’s work has been reviewed in Art in America, the New Yorker, Village Voice and New York Times among other publications. He has been awarded residencies at the NES Artist Residency in Iceland, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Painting Space 122, Virginia Commonwealth University, the Ucross Foundation, the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony among others. In 2022 he participated in the spring expedition of the Arctic Circle Residency where he documented the Svalbard archipelago with special attention paid to its glaciers. Later that year he was an artist in residence at the Burren College of Art where he trekked over and recorded the distinctive karst landscape. Also in the same year, Webster was commissioned to execute The Stone—a monumental Icelandic landscape—by the Durst Organization for the library for the newly constructed SVEN residential project in Long Island City, New York. In 2024 the Isabel Sullivan Gallery in Tribeca presented the solo exhibition Earthed Lightning: Northern Landscapes by Frank Webster which brought together topographical paintings from Ireland, Norway and Iceland. Webster’s work is in public and private collections in the US and abroad. Currently, Webster teaches watercolor technique at the Art Students League of New York.
