Scottish-American artist Willie Binnie was born 1985 in Dallas, Texas and lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He received his BA from Pitzer College, in 2008, and his MFA from Southern Methodist University, in 2014. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with notable exhibitions including Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure the Night at MASS MoCA (2018), North Adams, Massachusetts; the deCordova Museum 2019 Biennial, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the inaugural exhibition at the Bunker, the Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, West Palm Beach, Florida (2019). He has completed residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida (2014); the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (2020); and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, (2024). Binnie co-founded Beefhaus, an artist-run project space and community center in the Expo Park neighborhood of Dallas, which supported exhibitions, screenings, and performances from 2013 to 2018. In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, in 2017, he co-founded the Puerto Rican artist residency program at MASS MoCA—an ongoing, fully funded fellowship for visual artists and writers from Puerto Rico. Binnie has been a visiting lecturer and instructor of painting at Williams College in Williamstown, MA since 2019.