Born in 1948, Bill Woodrow studied at Winchester School of Arts from 1967 to 1968 and at St. Martin's School of Art, London from 1968 to 1971 before spending one year at Chelsea School of Art, London from 1971 to 1972. His first solo exhibition was at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972, since then he has shown his work all over the world.

In the early 1980s he represented Britain at Biennales in Sydney (1982), Paris (1982, 1985) and S�o Paulo (1983) and in 1986 he was a finalist in the Turner Prize at the Tate Gallery, London. Further solo exhibitions of his work were held at the Camden Arts Centre (1995), the Tate Gallery (1996) and the South London Gallery (2001). Woodrow's work is held in public collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Tate Gallery in London. The artist lives and works in London.