77. SUE
WILLIAMS
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Mike and
Zbigniew
2012 Oil and acrylic on canvas 177,8 x 177,8 cm |
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Retire in Fla.
2013 Oil and acrylic on canvas 198,12 x 198,12 cm |
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Globey
2015 Oil on canvas 84 x 182,88 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
1954 Chicago Heights, Illinois
Nowadays:
Lives
and works in Brooklyn, USA
Studies:
1972,1975 -1976 B.F.A, California Institute of the
Arts
1973 Cooper Union
1975–1976 BFA, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, USA
Themes and
style:
She is
known to be a feminist painter who often combines themes of gender politics and
the body into her work. She received her BFA at the California Institute of the
Arts in 1976. Her early works of highly-narrative comic and caricature
paintings made her known to a larger audience. She challenged earlier feminist
artists, such as Judy Chicago (American, b.1939), by exploring more
controversial themes, such as domestic violence, sexual obscenity, and her
anger towards the acceptance
Techniques:
Her work
is developed in paintings and performances
.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 303 Gallery, New York, NY
James Cohen, Shanghai, China
2013 Maruani & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
2011 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2010 “Al-Qaeda is the CIA”, 303 Gallery, New York
Galerie Eva Presenbuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 “Sue Williams: Project for the New American Century”,
David Zwirner, New York,
NY [catalogue]
Ormeau Baths Gallery OBG, Belfast, Ireland
2006 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Liandudno, Wales
2005 303 Gallery, New York
2004 Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2003 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Carpenter Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2002 Secession, Vienna, Austria, and IVAM, Valencia, Spain
(in 2003)
Galerie Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2001 Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
2000 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
1998 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Galerie und Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Sadie Coles, London, UK
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
1997 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
1996 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Modulo Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
1995 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
1994 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Modulo, Lisboa, Portugal
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France
Editions Julie Sylvester, New York, NY
1992 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO
1991 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 “Painting 2.0 Expression in the information age”, Museum
Brandhorst, Munich
“Greater New York”, MoMA PS1, New York
“Better Than de Kooning”, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
“America is Hard to See”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
2014 “Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology”,
Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles, CA
2013 "Comic Future", Ballroom Marfa, TX
2012 “The Perfect Show”, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Figuring Color", Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston
“The Displaced
Person”, Invisible-Exports, New York
2010 “Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: The D.
Daskalopoulos Collection,”
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
“Visceral Bodies”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada
“Collecting Biennials”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY
2009 “MOCA's First Thirty Years” - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los
Angeles, CA
“Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969 - 2009”, Museum voor Moderne
Kunst Arnhem,
Arnhem, Netherlands
2008 “The Gallery”, David Zwirner, New York, NY
“Pretty Ugly”, Gavin Brown Enterprise and Maccarone, New
York, NY
“Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New
York, NY
“We Are Stardust, We Are Golden. Women at Johnen + Schöttle
since 1984”,
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
“Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier”,
Kunstmuseum Luzern,
Luzern, Switzerland
2007 “Jubilee Exhibition”, House Eva Presenhuber Vnà,
Engiadina Bassa, Switzerland
“The Third Mind”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Bilbao,
Spain
“JACKSON”, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT
“Beneath the Underdog”, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
“Fast Forward: Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art”,
Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, TX
“InWords: The Art of Language”, University Gallery,
University of Delaware,
Newark, DE
“Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making”, Museum of
Modern Art,
New York, NY
2006 “Open House”, Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
“Defamation of Character”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
Long Island City, NY
“Into Me/Out of Me”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long
Island City, NY:
traveling to Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin,
Germany
“Bearings: the Female Figure”, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
“Lara Schnitger, Lily van der Stokker, Sue Williams”, Modern
Art, London,
England
“New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film,
Music, and Video”,
Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
“Still Points of the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth
International Biennial”,
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2005 “ ‘Artists’ Books Revisited”, Art Metropole, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada: traveling to
Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
“Extreme Abstraction”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
2004 “North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now”, curated by
Klaus Kertess, The
Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2003 “Size Matters”, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
“Drawing”, G Gallery, Washington, DC
“Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism”, University of
Santa Barbara, CA
2002 “Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New
Generation”, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA (travelling exhibition)
“Contemporary Art Project”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Art in the ‘toon age”, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State
University, MI
2001 “Brooklyn!”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art,
Lake Worth, FL
“Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel”, Victoria Miro
Gallery, London, U.K.
“Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW”, Museum of Modern
Art, New York
“Pop & Post-Pop [On Paper]”, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
“Locating Drawing”, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 “Open Ends”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Drawings 2000”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
“There Is Something You Should Know: EVN Sammlung”,
Ostereichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Palais De Beaux-Art de Bruxelles, curated by Thierry de Dove,
Brussels, Belgium
1999 “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”,
Whitney Museum of
American Art, NY
“Negotiating Small Truths”, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of
Art, University of
Texas at Austin, TX
1998 Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
“Skulptur Figur Weiblich”, Landesgalerie Oberosterreich,
Linz, Austria
“Painting: Now and Forever,” Part I, Pat Hearn and Matthew
Marks Gallery, New
York, NY
“Pop Surrealism”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
“Connections, Contradictions”, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
1997 "1997 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of
American Art, NY
"Multiple Identity: Works from the Whitney Museum of
American Art",
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
"Birth of the Cool", curated by Bice Curiger,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,
Germany, and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
"Painting Project", Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann
Maupin, New York, NY
1996 "Ideal Standard Life", Spiral Wacoal Art
Center, Tokyo, Japan
"The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art",
Galerie Andreas Binder,
Munich, Germany
1995 "1995 Biennal Exhibition", Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
25 Americans: Painting in the 90's", curated by Dean
Sobel, Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Imperfect", Herter Art Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
"Oltre La Normalita Concentrica", curated by Gianni
Romano, Comunune di
Padova, Padova, Italy
"feminimasculin, le sexe de l'art", Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
1994 "Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Sue
Williams", Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Coicido y Crucido", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia,
Madrid, Spain
1993 "Sue Williams, Lorna Simpson, Tony Oursler, John
Currin, Kathe Burkhart",
Galleria Galliani, Genova, Italy
"Sue Williams/Wendy Jacobs", Galerie Walcheturm,
Zurich
"1993 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
"Regarding Masculinity", Arthur Roger Gallery, New
Orleans, LA1993
"Bad Girls", Institute of Contemporary Art, London,
England and Center for
Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1992 "The Art of Language", Kunsthalle, Vienna,
Austria; Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt, Germany
"The Subject of Rape", Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY
"Aperto", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Die Arena Des Privaten", Kunstverein Munchen,
Munchen, Germany
"Privacy", curated by Gianni Romano, Documentario,
Milano, Italy
"Speilholle", curated by Kasper Konig and Robert
Fleck, Akadamie der Kunste
und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, Germany
" Getting to kNOw you", Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien,
Berlin, Germany
"Drawings", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Fear of Painting", curated by Dan Cameron, Arthur
Roger Gallery,
New York, NY
"Darkness Visible", The Drawing Center, New York,
NY
"How It Is", curated by Jonathan Seliger, Tony
Shafrazi Gallery,
New York, NY
"Dysfunction in the Family Album", curated by David
Humphrey, Diane Brown
Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Ashley King, Lauren Szold, Sue Williams", 303
Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawings", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
"New Generations: New York", curated by Elaine
King, Carnegie Mellon
Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
"Presenting Rearwards", curated by Ralph Rugoff,
Rosamund Felsen Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Karen Kilimnik, Gavin Brown, Sue Williams",
303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Brut 90", White Columns, New York, NY
1989 "Hard Life", White Columns, New York, NY
1988 Gallery Artists, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1987 "Lust", M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
"The Double Bind", Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY,
in collaboration
with "Art Against AIDS" (catalogue)
1985 "Sex Show", Cable Gallery, New York, NY
1984 "Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
Group Show, Hudson Center, New York, NY
1983 "Sue Williams, Vincent Gallo", curated by Edit
Deak, Patrick Fox Gallery,
New York, NY
1980 "Americans", Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Interiors", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York,
NY
PERFORMANCES
1986 "Damaged Goods", The New Museum, New York, NY,
"Docent Tour",
with Andrea Fraser
In her own words:
I want to draw attention to issues; I want
people to be informed. It's a scary time. Everything gets integrated into the
art, not always consciously. [The paintings] become a refuge. If I have
visibility, I have the responsibility to try and change things.
Representative
Galleries:
303
White 8
Regen Progets
Kukje
Eva Presenhuber
Jablonka Maruani Mercier
Derriere L’Etoile Studios
For
more Information:
http://www.artnet.com/artists/sue-williams/biography
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/interviews/the-sum-of-its-parts-an-interview-with-sue-williams-/