Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Arkansas since his bus broke down there in 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator. He has had 50 solo exhibitions in the USA and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 80 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including The Arkansas Arts Center, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA, Historic Arkansas Museum, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Capital Arts Center, Taipei, China, the University of Central Arkansas, Hendrix College, the Center for Arts & Science of SE Arkansas, and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the USA, Europe and Asia. Criswell is currently represented by M2 Gallery in Little Rock. Artist’s website: www.warrencriswell.com