William LaChance American, b. 1971
William LaChance (b. 1972, USA) graduated with an MFA in painting from Indiana University in 2002, and has since had multiple international exhibitions in London, New York, Miami, San Diego, Toronto and Tel Aviv. He has received press both online and in print including ARTSY, VOGUE, LʼHomme Officiel, Le Mile, JUXTAPOZ and Forbes, and in 2021, LaChance was included in the Rizzoli publication “COMMON PRACTICE”, an extensive survey of basketball and contemporary art. His works have been collected extensively in public and private collections worldwide, including the US Government, Colette Paris founder Sarah Andelman, Milla Jovovich, HBO and Nike.
His paintings embrace the collision of unlike parts to create hybrid, unfamiliar experiences associating displaced forms and colors cribbed from graphic design, fashion, art history and nature itself using an equally diverse variety of methods and materials from painting and printmaking to assemblage and sewing. They openly blur the boundary between high art and applied arts not only in principle but in practice- lending themselves to various manner of surface design, from textiles to fully realized earthworks. In 2017, LaChanceʼs mural adorning the Kinloch Park basketball courts was named the best designed basketball court in the world by Architectural Digest; and his collaborations have garnered several awards including a CLIO award (US) and The Scottish Design Award.
