Born in Amarillo, Texas, Bill Pangburn studied fine arts at the Phillips-Universitaet, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany; Tulane University  (BA), New Orleans, LA; and Pratt Institute (MFA), Brooklyn, NY. A professional artist who works in painting, printmaking, and installations, he is also an arts administrator, curator, and educator. Currently he is the director of the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, and in fall 2017 was a visiting professor of fine arts at Haverford College, Haverford, PA. He has also taught at John Jay College and the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2015, he was invited to present a paper on the role of the university gallery and studio art instruction in liberal arts education and a review of the New York contemporary art scene at The International Symposium of Art Figures “Art-Area China 2015” held at the Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China. His most recent curatorial project, Separate Voices – Shared Visions, was presented at the Southern Graphics Council International conference Texchange 2019, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. His professional activities include solo exhibitions at the San Angelo Museum of Art, San Angelo, TX; University College Art Gallery, Farleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ; Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; Art Mora Gallery, NY, NY; BCBArt, Hudson, NY; among others. Group exhibitions include the Sofia International Paper Biennial 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria; Art-Area China 2015, Hebei Normal University Museum, Hebei, China; Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX; Nikolaou Gallery, Selonika, Greece; and the 22nd Seoul International Art Festival, Chosunibo Museum, Seoul, South Korea. His work is held in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; and the Henan Museum, Zhengzhou, China; among others. He has a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a Bachelors of Arts degree magna cum laude from Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.