William Wegman received a B.F.A. in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1965 and an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana in 1967. Not long after graduating, Wegman began his relationship with Man Ray, joined soon after by Fay Ray and 4 new generations of Weimaraners. Out of Wegman’s involvement with this cast of characters grew a series of books inspired by their various acting abilities, including William Wegman 20 x 24 (Abrams), a photographic survey of almost thirty years of Wegman’s work with the 20” x 24” Polaroid camera. Wegman’s photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally and his most recent exhibitions include travelling retrospectives in Japan and in Sweden as well as the exhibition William Wegman: Fashion Photographs which travelled throughout North America. Recent gallery exhibitions include new photographic and video work with Pace MacGill in New York and Marc Selwyn in Los Angeles as well as exhibitions of new paintings and works on paper with Texas Gallery in Houston, Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York and Galeria Cardi & Co. in Milan. In the spring of 2006 a retrospective with a catalogue published by Yale University Press began a two-year tour opening at the Brooklyn Museum. William Wegman lives in New York and in Maine where he continues to make photographs, videos, drawings and paintings.