William Morrow is an independent curator, museum specialist, arts and culture consultant, and advisor to collectors. With twenty years of experience curating international art programs and expertise in building and interpreting major collections, he has become a trusted and effective thought partner to non-profit leaders and collectors across the country. His career-long commitment to fostering visionary artistic practices, deconstructing histories, and inspiring diverse audiences has been at the cornerstone of his curatorial practice. He has extensive experience in organizing and coordinating exhibitions, permanent collection reinstallations, acquisitions, public art, publications, marketing, public and donor relations, and fundraising initiatives.

Morrow was the Director of Exhibitions for the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation from 2019 to 2023. In charge of identifying and executing strategic partnerships with museum curators and directors, he spearheaded and orchestrated over 70 exhibitions and loaned projects across 20 states, Europe, and Canada from the foundation's deep holdings of over 20,000 post-war and contemporary objects. During his tenure at JSFF, in addition to organizing numerous large-scale traveling exhibitions such as Strange Weather (University of California Santa Cruz, 2022) and Positive Fragmentation (National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 2022), he also organized major traveling retrospective exhibitions of David Hockney (Honolulu Museum of Art, 2023), Jeffrey Gibson (Washington State University, 2023), Louise Bourgeois (Esker Foundation, Calgary, 2021), Marie Watt (University of San Diego, 2021), Kara Walker (Frist Art Museum, 2021), Hank Willis Thomas (Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2024), John Buck (Willamette University, 2020), and Leonardo Drew (Eskenazi Museum, IU Bloomington, 2021). 

Morrow also worked with JSFF's institutional partners to provide strategic guidance for the development of public programming and facilitated the Foundation's grant funding to support outreach and educational programs for historically underserved communities nationwide. Morrow managed the Schnitzer Foundation's publication program, which included monographic books on Judy Chicago (2023) and Marie Watt (2022). Guiding the JSFF marketing team, Morrow also spearheaded national public relations and marketing efforts. In 2023, Morrow led the negotiations and contracted the national public relations firm, Cultural Council. This partnership has resulted in unprecedented media coverage in the 25+ year history of the foundation. 

In 2023, Morrow developed JSFF’s first public exhibition space in Portland, Oregon. A testament to his ability to cultivate strategic partnerships, for JSFF’s first public project, Morrow partnered with Portland’s citywide biennial, Converge 45, to curate the biennial’s anchor exhibition, WE ARE THE REVOLUTION (Aug 2023–March 2024). The exhibition was covered or reviewed in over 80 national publications. 

Utilizing a global network of relationships with artists, galleries, and experience with all major auction houses, Morrow also advised Jordan Schnitzer, President of JSFF, on hundreds of strategically and historically important acquisitions that have helped establish the Schnitzer collection as one of the most in-depth private teaching collections in the world of post-war and contemporary art. Morrow advised on significant acquisitions that included over 350+ works comprising the print archives of Judy Chicago, over 150+ works by Hank Willis Thomas, 20+ works by Marie Watt, and the largest private collection of work by Jeffrey Gibson. Morrow also advised on the strategic acquisitions of important works by David Hockney, Keith Haring, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Titus Kaphar, and Leonardo Drew, to name a few. 

In 2015, William served as the Curator of Contemporary Art and Academic Programming at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, where he developed a multi-year strategic exhibition plan that included Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia (2016) and Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico (2017). Morrow was awarded the largest grant in the history of the museum from the Andy Warhol Foundation for his visionary programming. 

Prior to joining Tulane, William served as the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum (2012–2014), where he curated banner exhibitions such as Material World (2013) and Nick Cave: Sojourn (2013) and first museum exhibitions for artists such as Thailand-based artist Araya Rasdjarmrearsnook: Two Planets and Village and Elsewhere (2013). Morrow also established the first strategic collection plan for the contemporary department in over two decades. 

Morrow served as the founding Director of the 21c Museum and Curator of the private collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson from 2005–2012. Establishing the brand and art programming for 21c Museum from the ground up, Morrow created a dynamic, rigorous, and inclusive platform for multidisciplinary contemporary art programming that has been a catalyst for rethinking the role of museums in the 21st century and was established as a model for seven+ additional 21c locations across the country. During his tenure at 21c, he curated and directed hundreds of programs, creating a platform that celebrates the artist voice through major exhibitions, commissions, acquisitions, community engagement, and collaborations in film, dance, theatre, poetry, and music. Morrow's exhibitions at 21c included Cuba Now (2011), Creating Identity (2009), and Tangled Up in You (2008). He also curated first time museum presentations in the United States of artists such as Camille Utterback (2000), Arcangelo Sassolino (2007), Simen Yohan (2010), and Bae Bien-U (2008), to name a few. 

William earned his master's degrees in art history and museum studies from the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and the Sainsbury Centre's School of World Art and Museum Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England.