Sculpture Prize, Cooper Union Art School, New York, 1948
Fulbright Grant, 1949 – 1950
Margaret Tiffany Blake Fresco Award, 1951
Augustus St. Gaudens Medal, Cooper Union, New York, 1964
Creative Artists Public Service Award and Grant, 1974
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan, Distinction Prize, 1980
National Academy of Design, New York, Gold Medal, 1986
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Louise Nevelson Award, 1995
Guild Hall of East Hampton, Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, Visual Arts Award, 1997
International Sculpture Center, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2007
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Alan Gallery, New York, 1954, 1955, 1961
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California, 1970
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, 1970
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1971
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1971
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, 1971
Dag Hammerskjold Plaza, New York, 1971
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1971, 1982
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, Alabama, 1972, 1987
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, 1972
Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1972
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1972
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1972
Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1972
Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, 1973
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 1973
William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, 1973
State Universities of New York (traveling exhibitions), 1974
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, 1976
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, 1977
Louise Himmelfarb Gallery, Water Mill New York, 1980
Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine, 1981
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California, 1985, 1987
Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1986
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1987
David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987
Marilyn Pearly Gallery, New York, 1988
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, 1989
The Atrium at Maison Aican, Quebec, Canada, 1989
Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa, 1990
Simmons Visual Arts Center, Brenau College, Gainesville, Georgia, 1992
Pitt Program Council, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995
Seacon Square, Bangkok, Thailand, 1996
Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, 1962, 1964 – 1971, 1973, 1976, 1980 – 1984, 1986, 1989 – 1992, 1994, 1997
Miami Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida, 1997
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 1998, 1999
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Miami, Florida, 1998
Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, 1999
Kraushaar Galleries, New York, 2000
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2001
125 Maiden Lane, New York, 2001
University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 2011
”William King, Inside the Artist’s Studio”, Lyceum Gallery, Riverhead, New York, 2012
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York. New Talent. 1955
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Recent Sculpture USA. 1955
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Annual Exhibitions. 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968.
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Recent Figure Sculpture. 1972-1973. Exhibition traveled to Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York.
Art Gallery of Budapest, Hungary. Second International Biennial: Small Sculpture. 1973
Monumenta I, New port, Rhode Island. 1974
International Pavilion of Humor, Montreal, Canada. Man and His World. 1975
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Woodworks. 1976
Grand Palais, Paris, France. Contemporary Arts Show. 1976
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Skowhegan Retrospective. 1976. Exhibition traveled to Colby College, Waterville, Maine.
Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida. International Florida Artists. 1981.
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. Shape in Sculpture. 1982
National Academy of Design, New York. 157th Annual Exhibition. 1982
Brainard Art Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, New York. Directions in Metal. 1982
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Drawings on East End. 1988
Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stonybrook, New York. Eighteen Suffolk Artists. 1995
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. 1995
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Face Value: American Portraits. 1995
The White House, Washington, DC. Twentieth Century American Sculpture. 1995
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. Figurative Tradition. 1998
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Group Exhibition. 1999
Grounds for Sculpture, Princeton, New Jersey. Fall/Winter. 1999
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, New York, 2009
”Freddy’s World”, Fisher Parrish Gallery, July, 2019
Daura Gallery, University of Lynchburg, Virginia, September, 2019
Hans Weiss New Space Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut, October, 2019
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, August, 2020
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Columbus Museum, Ohio; Fine Arts Center, Cheeckwood, Nashville, Tennessee; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New York University, New York; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; State Universities of New York, Potsdam, New Paltz, Oswego, Plattsburgh, Jamestown, Fredonia; Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of California, Berkeley; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
ALL INQUIRIES