Nato a Londra nel 1974, dove vive e lavora.
 
Formazione
2004-10 PhD Fine Art by Practice, Middlesex University, London
1998-2000 De Ateliers International Artists’ Institute, Amsterdam  
1994-7 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London           
 
Mostre personali
2010 Man in the Planet, Viafarini DOCVA, Milan
2010 Reversals Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2009 Thoughts from the bottom of a well, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery  
         Solo presentation at VOLTA 5 Basel, represented by Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2007-8 Gradiva Project, Freud Museum, London, Artist’s Project, Camden Arts Centre
2006  William Cobbing, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium  
2005  Wall to Wall, TENT, Rotterdam  
2004  William Cobbing, The Pump Rooms Museum, Leamington Spa  
2003  William Cobbing, PercyMiller Gallery, London   
2002  Escape Chutes, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
2001  Eating my Teeth, Galerie Fons Welters-Playstation, Amsterdam
2000  Mutations, Stichting Archipel, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands   
 
Mostre collettive
2011  More Soup and Tart, Barbican Theatre, London
2011  Body Gestures Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel  
2010  Visibility Good Gallery North, University of Northumbria, Newcastle            
          When Central Met St Martins, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College, London
          Post Fossil, 21_21 Design Sight, The Issey Miyake Foundation, Tokyo  
          Wake, Dilston Grove, London
2009  SuperStories / Triennial for Art, Design and Fashion , Z33, Hasselt, Belgium  
2008  L'Angelo Sigillato Museo delle Icone Russe, Peccioli, Italy
          Divination Brunswick Gallery, London
          The Enigma of William Tell and Other Tales The Agency, London
          Diary of a Derelict Dairy London Festival of Architecture, Express Dairy Depot London
2007  Drifting Clouds,  Image Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy
          Medicine Now, Wellcome Trust, London
          Dark Glasses, Standpoint, London  
          Cunning Chapters, British Library, London   
2006  Let There be Light, Sotheby’s, London  
           Overlap 2, British School at Rome, Rome
          Room With a View, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague  
2005  Over de Mensen en de Dingen, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium           
          The Library of Babel, Courtauld Institute of Arts, London  
2004  A Secret History of Clay; From Gauguin to Gormley,  Tate Liverpool, Liverpool  
          The Book Show, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere  
          Body-Con, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Tokyo  
2003  The Book Show, The Nunnery, London   
          Sidetrack, PercyMiller Gallery, London
          Prospects Drawing Prize, Old Truman Brewery, London  
2002  Early Works, De Ateliers, Amsterdam  
          Haunted House, Outline, Amsterdam  
2001  Hang Up, Galerie Fons Welters-Playstation, Amsterdam   
          Do Not Disturb, Galerie 68 Elf, Cologne  
2000  Mostyn Open 11, (joint winner), Llandudno, Wales  
          Partie 8, Internationales Künstforum Drewen, Germany  
 
 
Selected screenings
2007 Video Performance Video, Mudima Foundation, Milan
         Sports & Leisure, Pesaro Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy
2006 Open Video Projects, The American Academy in Rome, Rome
          Blueroom, Rialtosantambrogi, Rome
2005 Sunday Screenings, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes  
2001  1 Hour 1 Thing, Park 4DTV, Salto channel, The Netherlands
 
Pubbicazioni selezionate
Gradiva Project, (exh. cat.), foreword by Jon Bird, texts by Jon Bird, Rebecca Heald, Joanne
Morra and Mignon Nixon, The Freud Museum, Camden Arts Centre, London, 2007.
Foundation, (exh. cat.), texts by Stef van Bellingen, William Cobbing, Michel Dewilde and
Emily Wardill, Ename Actueel, Belgium, 2007, pp. 16-20.
43 Mostra Internazionale Del Nuovo Cinema, text by Giovanni Spagnoletti, Fondazione
Pesaro Nuovo Cinema Onlus, Rome, 2007, p. 168.
Annual 2006, (exh. cat.), text by Ronny Heiremans, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art,
Aalst, Belgium, 2007.
Room With a View, (exh. cat.), Véronique Baar (ed.), texts by Véronique Baar, Jenny
Barendregt, Sharon Oldenkotte-Vrolijk, Bouwfonds, The Hague, 2006, p. 94.
Pilgrimage, Nicky Coutts (ed.), ‘Pellegrinare’, William Cobbing and Stella Santacatterina
interview.  Confluens Press, Middlesex University, London, 2006, pp. 65-87, 90-91.
Fine Art 2005-6 ,texts by Jacopi Benci and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,  British School at Rome,
Rome, 2006, pp. 14-17.
William Cobbing, (exh. cat.), foreword by Alison Plumridge, texts by Sue Hubbard and Nigel
Prince, Art Gallery & Museum, Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa, 2004.
A Secret History of Clay: from Gauguin to Gormley, (exh. cat.), Simon Groom (ed.), texts by
Simon Groom and Edmund de Waal, ‘in conversation’ with Anthony Gormley and James
Putnam, Tate Publishing, London, 2004, p. 101.
Moving Collection: Body-Con, (exh. cat.), Kai Ozawa, Yuko Ozawa, Roger McDonald (eds.),
text by Roger McDonald, Arts Initiative Tokyo (AIT), Tokyo, 2003.
The Book Show (exh. cat.) Simon Morley (ed.), texts by Simon Morley and Tanya Peixoto,
Utopia Press, London, 2003
Prix de Rome Beeldhouwen / Sculpture, (exh. cat.), texts by Ken Lum, Domeniek Ruyters,
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, 2003, pp. 24-25.     
Early Works: De Ateliers 1998-2002, (exh. cat.), Dominc van den Boogerd (ed.), texts
Dominic van den Boogerd, Marlene Dumas, Adrian Searle, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, 2003,
pp. 31-33
Archipel 00, (exh. cat.), Anke Land (ed.), text by Inge Pollet, Stichting Archipel, Apeldoorn,
The Netherlands, 2000.
 
Articoli selezionati
Buck, Louisa, The Art Newspaper (Art Basel Daily Edition), ‘Will gives good head’, 9 June
2009, p.11  
Williamson, Beth, The Art Book, ‘William Cobbing: Gradiva Project’, Volume 15, Issue 3,
August 2008. pp.23-24
Holman, Martin, Miser & Now ,‘It shouldn’t happen to a dream’, Issue 11, 2007, pp. 32-39.
Metropolis M, (front cover image), Nr.5, Oct-Nov 2005.
Depondt, Paul, de Volkskrant, ‘De manifestie Super! Veel kromspraak en modieus discours’,
12 September 2005, p. 10.
Schweitzer, Beatrijs, Beelden, ‘William Cobbing: zonder gelaat, gelaten èn gellaagd’ Issue
2/2005, p. 14.  
Spijkerman, Sandra, De Trouw , 'Kunstbeurs Art Rotterdam: jong, hip en internationaal', 24
February 2005.
Lack, Jessica, The Guardian (The Guide), ‘William Cobbing: Leamington Spa’, 14 February
2004, p. 34.
Lack, Jessica, The Guardian, ‘Picks of the week’, 9 February 2004.
Dunn, Katy, Blueprint, ‘Profile: A New Growth in Art’, May 2004, p. 39.  
Beanland, Chris, Metro, ‘Strange fusions in a familiar world’, 16 January 2004, p. 18   
Buck, Louisa, The Art Newspaper, ‘William Cobbing: Percy Miller Gallery’, No.137, June
2003, p. 13.
Mar, Alex, Frieze, ‘William Cobbing: Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam’, Issue 71 Nov/Dec
2002, pp. 101-102.
Keijer, Kees, Het Parool  ‘Horror, gespeend van spanning en sensatie’, 6 July 2002.
Schoonenboom, Merlijn, De Volkskrant, ‘Zwart gezwel uit autowiel’, 3 July 2002.
Berrebi, Sophie, Frieze 100 (www.frieze.com) ‘William Cobbing: Eating my teeth, Galerie
Fons Welters: Playstation’, January 2001.  
Saaze, Vivian van, Metropolis M, ‘William Cobbing: Ingrepen’, Nummer 6, Dec 2000-Jan
2001, pp. 51-52.
Tannert, Christoph, Der Tagesspiegel, ‘Kunst abladen verboten’, 3 September 2000, p.5, pp.
10-11.
 
Residenze
2009     Turquoise Mountain Foundation Kabul, Afghanistan  
2008/9  Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-upon-Tweed
2008     Artist Residency, Camden Arts Centre, London
2005-6  Helen Chadwick Fellowship, The British School at Rome, and Ruskin
              School, University of Oxford, Oxford
2003      Berlin Project Studio, Fonds BKVB, Berlin
2002-3  Artist in Residence, The Wellcome Trust, London
2001      Kaus Australis, studio residency, Rotterdam  
     
Collezioni pubbliche
The Pump Rooms Museum, Leamington Spa   
The Wellcome Trust, London  
Internationales Kunst Forum Drewen, Germany   
Bouwfonds, The Netherlands   
The Freud Museum, London