William Toney is an artist, educator and arts organizer from Kansas City, Missouri. Toney currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He earned an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2024. He also holds a B.F.A. in photography from the University of Missouri–Columbia in 2012. Toney has exhibited his artwork nationally, and he has also had solo exhibitions of his work at Automat Collective in Philadelphia, PA, as well as UMKC Gallery of Art and HAW Contemporary (both based in Kansas City, Missouri). William Toney has been the recipient of several local artist residencies and fellowships, including the Makerspace Residency at Temple University and the Charlotte Street Studio Residency in 2020.
Toney’s lens-based, interdisciplinary practice attends to the conceptual frameworks that shape Black cultural production. Engaging methodologies that span opacity, Afrofuturism, and other modes of inquiry, his work challenges and destabilizes the notion of a singular Black experience.
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