cv — Abbey Williams

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024     In the Project Room: Abbey Williams: Natural Sound, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY.

2022	     Video Viewing Room: Abbey Williams, The Kitchen (Online), New York, NY.

2021 	     Abbey Williams, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.

2021	     Vignette, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY.

2020	     Abbey Williams x Black Mamas Matter, Sargent's Daughters (Online), New York, NY.

2017	      Project Room, Skibum MacArthur, LA, CA.

2009       (STILL), Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY.

2007 	Project Room, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY.

2006 	present company excluded, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.

2003 	Moon in Gemini, Foxy Production, New York, NY.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,  Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.

Quartet (or, a Basket of Roses), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland ME.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, St. Louis Art Musuem, St. Louis MO.

Video Store, Foxy Production, New York, NY.

The Artifact Labyrinth: Unfixed histories and the language of transformation, Studio la Città,

Verona, Italy.

NYC Feminist Film Week 2019: OBJECT/SUBJECT, Anthology Film Archives, NY.

Seven Senses, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

Mickey Mouse Has Grown-up a Cow, University of Albany Museum of Art, Albany, NY

Several Years Have Passed, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY.

Loss for Words (curated by Max Warsh), BAM, Brooklyn, NY.

Garden Dwellers, Regina Rex, New York, NY.

Leaden Hearts (curated by Lisi Raskin), Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy.

Tenderness (curated by Alex Jovanovich), Transborder Arts broadcast on public access cable, NY.

this might not be for now (curated by Skowhegan Alliance)

-Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY.

-Public Fiction, LA, CA.

Joni Mitchell (curated by Chris Bogia), Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY.

Video Studio: Muted–, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

Shapeshifter (Curated by Michelle Handelman)

-Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY.

-MassArt Film Society, Boston, MA.

Mother/mother, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Bare Walls No Boundaries, The Amistad Center at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT.

Amerika: Werkleitz Festival 2008, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany.

Video program (curated  by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, The Hammer Museum, LA, CA.

NADA Fair with Bellwether Gallery, Miami, FL.

Video_Dumbo 2007 (curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy), d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY.

Curious Green (curated by Josh Kline), Circus Gallery, LA, CA.

The Line of Time and The Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman Gallery & Wallspace, New York, NY.

Video_Dumbo 2006 (curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy), d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY.

When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY.

Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

Exploding Television - Satellite of Love, Rotterdam International Film Festival and The Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, LIC, Queens, NY.

Musica, Video Musica (curated by Bob Nickas), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY.

The kids have ADD, The Wizard Electroland, Brooklyn, NY.

Video 2005, Art in General, New York, NY.

Metropolis

-Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.

-National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

3 Point Perspective (curated by Kendra Gaeta), 2004 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.

Skowhegan Projects, Maine State Fair, Skowhegan, ME.

2nd Annual DC Underground Film Festival at the Carnegie Institute, Washington D.C.

From New York with Love (curated by Trong G. Nguyen), Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL.

She’s about to wake up (curated by Diego Singh & Jose-Carlos Diaz), Lightbox/Miami Light Project, Miami, FL.

11th Annual New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY.

You can’t do that on Television (curated by Ed Halter)

-Cinematheque, Ontario, Canada.

-Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX.

-MassArt, Boston, MA.

Hovering (curated by Daniele Balice and Anne Du Boucheron), Peres Projects, LA, CA.

Blinky 1 & 2, Tate Britain, London, UK.

Look Out, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI.

Enchante: MFA Thesis Exhibition, UBS Exhibition Space, Red Hook, NY.

Transference (curated by Jeanine Oleson)

-Art In General, New York, NY.

-Moscow, Russia.

VideoEx: International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.

25 Hours: Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Barcelona, Spain.

The Stray Show (fair) with Foxy Production, Chicago, IL.

10th Annual New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY.

What are you growing in your garden?, ATM Gallery, New York, NY.

5th Annual Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, NY.

Video Store, Foxy Production, Brooklyn, NY.

PRESS

Screenslate.com, Video Store by  Trevor Izzo, Feb 22, 2023.

The Brooklyn Rail, Abolition of a Catagory: Patty Chang and Abbey Williams by Amy Sadao and Susette Min, July/August 2022.

The Brooklyn Rail, Art in Transit: Abbey Williams, October 1, 2021.

Hyperallergic, Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony by Justin Kamp, March 30, 2021.

The New York Times, 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens, By WILL HEINRICH, APRIL 26, 2018.

Artforum.com, New York: Critics Picks, Several Years Have Passed by Nicole Kaak, April 13, 2018.

The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSeen: Garden Dwellers by Alexandra Hammond, July 14, 2017.

Time Out New York, Review: Joni Mitchell by Joseph R. Wolin, January 28, 2011.

The New Yorker, Goings on about town: Art; Galleries: Chelsea: Dana Frankfort/Abbey Williams,

October 1, 2007.

Studio: The Studio Museum of Harlem Magazine, Studio Visit: Abbey Williams by Rujeko Hockley,

Fall 2006

Artcritical.com, Greater New York by Vincent Katz, July 2005.

The Age (Arts section of The Sydney Morning Herald), Metropolis by Robert Nelson, February 2, 2005.

PAJ: A journal of performance and art, The second time around: New festivals, special programs by Larry Qualls, Vol.26 No. 1, January 2004.

The Village Voice, The Year in Experimental Film and Video by Ed Halter, December 24 - 30, 2003.

Flash Art, Hovering at Peres Projects by Anne Martens, November-December 2003.

Metro Times Detroit, Sunny, with a chance of art by Glen Mannisto, July 2-8, 2003.

The Village Voice, Even Children Get Older: A Question of Time (review of The 10th Annual New York Underground Film Festival) by Nick Rutigliano, March 5 - 11, 2003.

CATALOGS

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Gregory R Miller & Co., the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

The Artifact Labyrinth: Unfixed histories and the language of transformation, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy, 2019.

Amerika: Werkleitz Festival 2008, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany, 2008.

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, 2005.

Metropolis, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, 2004-2005.

25 Hours: Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Barcelona, 2003.

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, 2004.

MFA, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2003.

BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, 1993.

RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS

Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2024 Nominee.

Surfpoint, York, Maine, 2025.

 Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson, NY, 2024.

EFA Shift Residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2017-2018.