About
This website is dedicated to my Curatorial Practice.
William Norton (www.nortonart.net) is an Artist, Independent Curator, former Gallery Director of PeepShow Space/(-the gallery LTD- ). and current Co-Director of theNextWave Gallery: a Wade Bonds and William Norton Galleries Production at 37 North 15th Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222.
www.nextwavegallery.com
Also currently the Curator in Residence at SHOWROOM. Guerra Paints and Pigment Corp, 57-52 58th Place, Maspeth, NY
He has independently curated over 50 exhibitions in the USA and Japan.
His journey as a curator started in January 2015. Alongside his best friend HeiHei dog he began by curating all the artists working as Art Handlers for the Whitney Museum of American Art into Pop Up exhibitions and now over 10 years and over 50 exhibitions later, William Norton has been fortunate to have shown over 100 artists, not only from the Whitney, but also Japan, China, Israel, Chile and even New Jersey.
As an independent curator he brought 7 artists to exhibit in the Kameyama Triennale in Japan in October 2022. He will be curating artists from the gallery for the next iteration in 2026.
-the gallery LTD- (originally named PeepShow Space) started as a Covid era Pop Up in September 2020. He chose to begin by showing mostly Asian Women Artists as he felt their talents are far too often undervalued. There were 15 exhibitions during that time.
theNextWave Galleries: a Wade Bonds and William Norton Galleries Production began February 15, 2025 with a Solo Show “Goddess”: Myth, Memory, and the Art of Cultural Connection”, by William Norton, curated by Wade Bonds in Gallery Room 108.
The Solo Show by Yukari Edamitsu - “A Path To Light”, curated by Chris Ketchie in Gallery Room 104 opened at that same time.
PeepShow Space was located at 37 North 15th Street, Greenpoint , Brooklyn 11222, opposite the iconic business ACME Fish, this 450 SF well lit gallery had been blessed by great artists and family. The large glass frontage on the ground floor had allowed the work to be safely viewed at all times even during the Pandemic. That gallery closed November 28, 2021. This same building now houses theNextWave Galleries in Space #104.
theNextWave Galleries are also participating in a Residency Collaboration with SHOWROOM at Guerra Paints & Pigments Corp., 57-52 58th Place, Maspeth, Queens where William Norton is responsible for the curation of all the exhibitions. That collaboration began June 6, 2025 with the presentation of “Amazons & Warriors: The Battle for the Showroom” featured the Women and Men of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Art Handling Team in a Mythic Clash as the protagonists in a living, breathing tableau of myth, labor, and artistic dominance.
This entire exhibition schedule was made possible by the amazing generosity of the building’s owners. They were incredible from the very beginning, without their continued support and belief throughout this could never have happened. It was their belief that under represented but talented artists needed to be physically seen, especially during the height of Covid. They have now generously supplied another space in that building to be used as a gallery.
a few of the exhibited artists
Sonomi Kobayashi. http://www.sonomikobayashi.com/ @sonomikobayashi
Natsuki Takauji www.natsukitakauji.com @natsukiuji
Xiaowei Chen www.xiaowei-art.com @chen_xiaowei_art
Etty Yaniv www.ettyyanivstudio.com. @etty.yaniv
Anki King www.ankiking.com @ankiking
Cake Hara www.cakehara.net @cakehara
Yukari Edamitsu www.yukariedamitsu.com @yukariedamitsu
Jason Phillips. http://jasonphillips-art.com/. @jgphil
Chris Ketchie. https://www.chrisketchie.com/. @ckny1800
Joshua Rosenblatt http://www.joshuarosenblatt.com/ @joshua.rosenblatt
Marcela Silva https://www.marcelasilva.com/
Jesse Gelaznik https://jessegelaznik.com/. @gelaznik
Elisa Jensen http://www.elisajensen.com/
William Norton http://www.nortonart.net/ @norton_william
Bill Page https://www.billpagepaintings.com/