Michael Williams › CV
b.1978, Providence, RI
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
BFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Summer Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
Michael Williams, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael Williams, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Maag Areal, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Morning Zoo, Michael Werner, Mayfiar, London
Five Paintings, KARMA Amagansett, Amagansett, NY
New Paintings, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Paintings, CANADA, New York, NY
This Means Something to My Horse, VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin
Michael Williams and John Altoon, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Montgomery' s Tubercles, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Straightforward as a Noodle, CANADA, New York, NY
Puzzle Paintings, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Uncle Big, CANADA, New York, NY
If God Could Draw, with Nick Lowe, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery, Padova, Italy
Wood, Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cancuned and Other Paintings from 2007, CANADA, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
The Trick Brain, Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
Tobias Pils, Michael Williams, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Make Painting Great Again, CANADA, NY
Colliding Alien Cargo, Marlborough Chelsea, NY
Love for Three Oranges, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Call and Response, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA, New York, NY
Live and Let Die, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, UK
New Image Painting, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Journal Gallery at Venus Over Manhattan, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Fragmented Realities, Gallery at Delaware Couty Community College, Media, PA
The Age of Small Things, DODGE Gallery, New York, NY
Comic Future, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Tumescence, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY
Comic Future, Ballroom Mafia, Marfa, TX
Summer Drawings, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B. Wurtz, Office Baroque Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Williams and John Altoon, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Bernhardt, Frost, Kitaj, Rivers, Schumann, Williams, Marlbourough Gallery, New York, NY
The Beatles, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
The Art of a Joke, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
East West Shift to the Middle Part #1, Bill Brady KC, Kansas City, MO
GoFigure, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
Copper Kettle, ReMAP 3, curated by The Journal, Athens, Greece
New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Dirt Dont Hurt, Jolie Laide, Philadelphia, PA
Time Wounds All Heels, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
CANADA, Paris, Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
One Dozen Paintings, Journal Gallery, New York, NY
DADARHEA, CANADA, New York, NY
Salad Days, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY
The Craft, curated by Melissa Brown, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Tuesday Afternoon in a Cage, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Big Picture, Priska Jushka, New York, NY
DADARHEA, Ohwow Gallery, Miami, FL
Not Quite Open for Business, The Hole, New York, NY
In There, Out Here curated by Bill Saylor, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, NY
Jr. and Sons curated by Joe Bradley, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Nice Sizes, Good Prices!, Galleri Chrsitina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008, Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin,TX
My Brains a Clif and My Hearts a Bitter Bufalo, Jonathan Viner, London, England
My Brains a Clif and My Hearts a Bitter Bufalo, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
Peanut Gallery, curated by Joe Bradley, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Macronauts, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece
New Mutants, Canada, New York, NY
Crystal Crunch, Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery, Padova, Italy
From the Froth, Stairwell Gallery, Providence, RI
Cosmic Satellites (curated by Betty Nguyen), Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Searching for Love & Fire, David Castillo Modern & Contemporary, Miami, FL
Ulrich Project Series: General Store, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Tedious Limbs, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Brothers, Fresh Up Club, Austin, TX
The Skull Show, Hanna, Tokyo, Japan
Tedious Limbs, Flynn Farm, Los Angeles, CA
Beat The Reaper!, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
You Are My Sunshine, You Is My Sunshine: CANADA, New York, NY
Group Show, Matthew Berliant, St. Louis, MO
The Bowling Show, Arcade Lanes, St. Louis, MO
Selected Performances
Contact , MoMA, New York, NY
Time Booth, with Melissa Brown, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mr. Ravestic's Mess Age, Sagamore Hotel, Miami, Fl
2nd worst performance ever, PS1, New York, NY
Half Hour of Power, Cavalier Hotel, Miami, FL
Rowdy Remix, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
Barkley's Barnyard Critters, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Barkley's Barnyard Critters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
worst performance ever, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
Awards/Residencies
The Danish Arts Council DIVA Residency, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Moore Space, Miami, FL
VOOM LAB Video Production Grant
Bibliography
Eddy Frankel, Michael Williams: Morning Zoo, Time Out London, January 20
Bill Powers, Images of Existential Crisis Almost Look Cute to Us Now": A Talk with Michael Williams, ARTNEWS, December 3
Roberty Smith, The Forever Now: A Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA, The New York Times, December 11
Jerry Saltz, Forever Now is MoMA's Market Moment, New York Magazine, December 12
Will Heinrich, The Age of Small Things’ at Dodge Gallery, GalleristNY.com, February 5
Roberta Smith, Michael Williams: ‘Paintings’, The New York Times, December 6
Steven Zevitas, 14 Painters (+ 2) to Watch in 2014, Huffington Post, December 20
Andrew Russeth, The Year In, and Beyond, the Galleries, GalleristNY.com, December 18
Alezandre Stipanovich, In the Studio with Michael Williams, Opening Ceremony Blog, December 17
Michael Williams, The New Yorker, December 16
Jerry Saltz, Making the Canvases Dance: How Michael Williams’s paintings left my retinas quivering,
New York Magazine
Jerry Saltz, I am Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine’s Art Critic, reddit AMA
Jerry Saltz, Seeing Out Loud: Jerry Saltz on ‘Michael Williams: Painting‘ at Canada Gallery, Vulture, November 19
Nick Stillman, Review: Katherine Bernhardt, ArtForum, October
White Smurf, The Journal, Entry #33, Supplement
Phil Grauer, Michael Williams: Interview, The Journal, Entry #31, pp. 68-79, (illus.)
Jef Frederick, Michael Williams CANADA, Art in America, October 2011, pgs 183-184 (illus.)
Steve DiBenedetto, Michael Williams, Bomb, Summer 2011 (illus.)
Roberta Smith, Free-for-All Spirit Breezes Into a Vast Fair, The New York Times, March 4
Roberta Kitanox, Takeshi Art Beats, NHK BShi Television, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 16th, 8:00 PM
Roberta Smith, Dadarhea, The New York Times, March 18
Calvin Wilson, Is This Art Funny? You Decide Michael Williams, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 20
Nick Stillman, Michael Williams , ARTFORUM, January
Roberta Smith, 'Michael Williams' Art In Review, The New York Times, November
Holland Cotter, 'Peanut Gallery' Art in Review, The New York Times, January
Liberty Paterson, Michael Williams, Kopenhagen, December 15th (illus.)
Critics Picks Paris: "My Brains a Clif and My Hearts a Bitter", Artforum, March 28
Dan Nadel, "Time Booth", the Journal, Entry #22. pgs 186-195 (illus.)
Elwyn Palmerton, Michael Williams, Artillery, vol 2. no 3. January (illus.)
Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, November 12
David Cohen, Catching the Crest of the L.E.S. Wave, The New York Sun, November 8 (illus.)
Jeannie Hopper, A conversation with Slow Jams Band, WPS1/MOMA Art Radio, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 10
Art Section. Color Us Cool, Time Out New York Kids, April 12
Jen DeNike, Panel on Performance & Ephemeral Art, WPS1/MOMA Art Radio, Art Basel Miami Beach, Simulcast on WVUM 90.5 FM Miami, December 3
Corey D'Augustine, Introducing... The Slow Jams Band, NYFA Interactive, June (illus.)
Nick Stillman, Critics Picks : Rowdy Remix, Artforum, May
Elizabeth Schambelan, Critics Picks: "You Are My Sunshine/You Is My Sunshine", Art Forum, June
Kerman, Byron. "Best of St. Louis: Best Defunct Organization", The Riverfront Times, September 27
A&E Team, Art Swims Out of the Mainstream, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, April
Eddie Silva, Closet Case, The Riverfront Times, March 14 (illus.)
Jon Rockof, Designs on Street Signs, The Providence Journal, July 14 (illus.)
Jon Rockof, Artists Canvas Public, The Providence Journal, December 16 (illus.)