William “Billy” Sorvillo is an artist who believes art is capable of three things: “If it’s good, it’ll make you think. If it’s great, it will make you feel and if it’s genius, it will inspire.”
His art, which consists of independent works, commissions and murals, has appeared in Vanity Fair and on The Bloomberg Channel and has been shown in galleries around the globe from New York City and Brooklyn to Miami, Santa Fe and South Korea. In Seoul, his painting Malagueñas was the flagship piece for the US-South Korea International Art Show during the 2018 Olympics. Examples of his creations can be seen at https://www.williamsorvillo.com/
Sorvillo started his artistic studies at the age of six. At fifteen, he began having lucid dreams of future paintings which continue to inform his work to this day. He feels that he is a conduit and that his artwork is an expression of those experiences. From spiritual and religious themes to perspectives on social and civil rights, love and loss, his work is tied together by his passion for authentic expression.
The son of an Episcopal priest, Sorvillo has sought to deepen his knowledge of his craft and his understanding of the human condition by exploring art and spirituality from various perspectives. He has studied with Lakota Medicine Men on the reservations of South Dakota, Buddhist monks in Japan, yogis in the caves of the Himalayas, a shaman from Peru, and an East Indian teacher in Key West, FL. He has lived with Hindu swamis in the south of India where he taught tantric yoga, and with Augustinian monks in San Gimignano, where he studied the Renaissance masters in Florence, Italy.
His continued interest in eastern cultures inspired him to obtain a Masters of Science and Oriental Medicine while he painted and showed his artwork in Santa Fe, NM.
Sorvillo presently lives and creates in Bushwick, Brooklyn with his wife and their four cats.