Will Kurtz

1957 Flint, Michigan 

Doggy Bags

2019-2022

Will Kurtz was born in Flint, Michigan and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University in 1981. He practiced as a landscape architect throughout the United States and Canada for 25 years. It was not until he reached his mid-thirties that he began creating work as a self-taught artist. Eventually, his passion for art superseded landscape architecture, and he moved to New York at the age of 50 to attend graduate school at the New York Academy of Art. After graduation with an MFA, he was selected to remain in New York and complete a one-year fellowship.

The artist has explained that “Newspaper is [his] medium of choice because it gives a raw, imperfect, ephemeral quality that reminds us that we are only here on this Earth for a short while.” Kurtz’s striking sculptural works transform the well-known materials from which they are made. No stranger to experimenting with size, many of Kurtz’s works capture a single moment on a larger-than-life scale.

Kurtz has had several solo and group shows is currently represented by Avant Gallery as well as Kim Foster Gallery, New York, Galerie Sebastien Adrien in Paris, and Galerie Van Campen & Rochtus, Antwerp, Belgium. His work is featured in many prominent collections around the world. The artists currently works and lives in New York.