William Laing (artist)

William (Bill) Laing (born 1944) is a Scottish/Canadian artist based in Calgary, Alberta.

He studied at the Vancouver School of Art from 1967 - 1971 graduating with an honours diploma in Photography and Printmaking.

During the next three years, before graduating from college, he participated in more than thirty group exhibitions in England,[5][6][7] Canada,[8][9] the United States, Sweden, Poland and Switzerland.

[10][11] In 1997 a retrospective of his work, William Laing, a Journey, was exhibited in Kelowna, BC.

[12][13] [14][15] [16][17] As of 2016, his most recent group exhibitions have been the 8th Douro Biennial in Alijo, Portugal and the Kyoto Hanga in Japan.