Sue Williams (painter)

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Sue Williams
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Known forContemporary art
MovementPainting, feminism

Sue Williams is an American artist born in 1954. She came to prominence in the early 1980s, with works that echoed and argued with the dominant postmodern feminist aesthetic of the time. In the years since, her focus has never waned yet her aesthetic interests have moved toward abstraction along with her subject matter and memories. She lives and works in New York.

Early life and education[edit]

Sue Williams was born in 1954 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Williams started her education at Cooper Union in 1973. She later transferred to California Institute of the Arts and graduated with a B.F.A in 1976.[1]

Work[edit]

In the 1990s violence against women was one of the main themes of Sue Williams' work. She often represents women as sex objects, frequently adding sarcastic texts. In later work text is usually absent.[2]

Exhibitions[edit]

Sue Williams is represented by 303 Gallery, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Skarstedt, New York; and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich.

The following is a list of selected exhibitions:

  • Whitney Biennial, New York (1993)[3]
  • Whitney Biennial, New York (1995)[4]
  • Whitney Biennial, New York (1997)[5]
  • Contemporary Art Project, Seattle Art Museum (2002)[6]
  • Art for the Institution and the Home, Secession, Vienna (2002)[7]
  • Defamation of Character, MoMA P.S.1 New York (2006)[8]
  • Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, MoMA, New York (2007)[9]
  • The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007)[10]
  • Project for the New American Century, David Zwirner, New York (2008)[11]
  • Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands (2009)[6]
  • Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2010)[12]
  • Figuring Color, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2012)[13]
  • Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, TX (2013)[14]
  • Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014)[15]
  • America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015)[16]
  • Painting 2.0 Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015)[17]
  • Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2015)[18]
  • Better Than de Kooning, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (2015)[19]
  • Don't Look Back: The 1990s, MoCA, Los Angeles (2016)[20]
  • Zeitgeist, MAMCO, Geneva (2017)[21]

Collections[edit]

  • Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC[22]
  • Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, CA[23]
  • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA[6]
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY[24]
  • New Museum, New York, NY[6]
  • Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA[6]
  • Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA[25]
  • Whitney Museum, New York, NY[26]

Awards[edit]

  • 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship

Publications[edit]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Sue Williams - Artists - Regen Projects". www.regenprojects.com. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  2. ^ Westen, Mirjam (2009). Rebelle: Art & Feminism 1969-2009. Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem. p. 262. ISBN 978-90-72861-45-0.
  3. ^ "Politics Dominates Whitney Biennial". March 26, 1993 – via Christian Science Monitor.
  4. ^ "A Quirky Whitney Biennial". The New York Times. March 24, 1995.
  5. ^ "artnet.com Magazine News – THE 1997 WHITNEY BIENNIAL". www.artnet.com.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Sue Williams | Artists | 303 Gallery". www.303gallery.com. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  7. ^ "Sue Williams " secession". www.secession.at.
  8. ^ "MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Defamation of Character". momaps1.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  9. ^ "Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making | MoMA". www.moma.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  10. ^ "Programme du Palais de Tokyo, The Third Mind / carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone". archives.palaisdetokyo.com. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  11. ^ "Project for the New American Century | David Zwirner". David Zwirner. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  12. ^ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  13. ^ "Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  14. ^ "Comic Future « Ballroom Marfa". www.ballroommarfa.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  15. ^ "Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology | Take It or Leave It digital archive | Hammer Museum". Hammer Museum. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  16. ^ "America Is Hard to See | Whitney Museum of American Art". whitney.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  17. ^ "Museum Brandhorst | München: Exhibitions". www.museum-brandhorst.de. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  18. ^ "MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Greater New York". momaps1.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  19. ^ "Villa Merkel: 2015". www.villa-merkel.de (in German). Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  20. ^ "Don't Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  21. ^ "MAMCO / Zeitgeist". archives.mamco.ch. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  22. ^ "Search Result Details - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  23. ^ "Sue Williams". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  24. ^ "Sue Williams | MoMA". www.moma.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  25. ^ "Blue and Gold in Short Skirt". Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  26. ^ "Whitney Museum of American Art: Sue Williams". collection.whitney.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
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