William (Bill) R. Dunlap is an American artist, writer, and arts commentator on Washington, DC's flagship PBS station, WETA-TV. With a career that has spanned more than four decades, his large scale narrative paintings and constructions concern themselves with history, allegory and the art making process. "Hypothetical Realism" is a term Dunlap coined to describe his work in both the visual arts and fiction - "the places and things I paint and describe are not real, but they could be." Dunlap is an avid and accomplished printmaker as well as painter, sculptor and photographer. His work is included in collections such as the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Mississippi Museum of Art, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Riggs Bank, IBM Corporation, Federal Express, The Equitable Collection, Arkansas Art Center, the United States State Department, and United States Embassies throughout the world. Dunlap is also the author of Short Mean Fiction (), published April 1, 2016 by Nautilus Press, a collection of 15 stories with excerpts from sketchbooks which read "like tales from the Old Testament rampant with sex violence and death." Life William Dunlap was born in Houston, Mississippi on January 21, 1944. He has a degree from the University of Mississippi, and taught at Appalachian State University in North Carolina from 1970 to 1979 and Memphis State University from 1979 to 1980. He has lectured on art related subjects at colleges, universities, institutions and professional conferences. He serves as arts commentator on WETA-TV's cultural round table show, "Around Town." He currently maintains studios in McLean, Virginia, Mathiston, Mississippi and Coral Gables, Florida. Art Dunlap classifies his artistic style as hypothetical realism. He has co-curated several exhibitions at the Meridian International Center in Washington, D.C. including A Winding River: Contemporary Painting from Vietnam and Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century. Currently, he is working on a third exhibition to open at the Meridian International Center that focuses on contemporary Cuban paintings. He painted the official portrait of Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus. Solo exhibitions Corcoran Gallery of Art National Academy of Science Aspen Museum of Art Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Museum of Western Virginia Albany Museum of Art Cheekwood Fine Arts Center Mint Museum of Art Mississippi Museum of Art Contemporary Arts Center-New Orleans, LA