Kiyan Williams Explained

Kiyan Williams
Education:Stanford University, Columbia University
Birth Place:Newark, New Jersey
Website:http://www.kiyanwilliams.com/

Kiyan Williams is an American visual artist who works across a range of media, including sculpture, performance, and installation.[1] By revisiting public sculpture[2] and national symbols,[3] Williams creates artworks that subvert dominant narratives of history, power, and American identity.[4] Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[5]

Education

Kiyan Williams earned a BA with Honors from Stanford University and a MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.[6] [7]

Artistic practice

Kiyan Williams is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, sculpture, installation and media art, through which they subvert national symbols and traditional monumentality.[8] The artist adopts everyday materials and unconventional methods[9] to uproot the hegemonic narratives of domination that monuments typically celebrate. Embracing fragments and fissures, Williams’ works recall ancient ruins or relics in a state of decay that also hold capacities for resilience.[10] By making, unmaking, and remaking,[11] the artist creates embodied works that both fill historical gaps and question power dynamics. Soil, in particular, is a recurring material and metaphor that Williams uses to delve into American history and identity,[12] thus unearthing the historical and ongoing forces that have shaped, and tightly tied together, bodies and land.[13]

Exhibitions

Kiyan Williams' work has been presented in numerous museums and galleries, in the United States and worldwide, including notable exhibitions at Peres Projects, Milan, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, and SculptureCenter, New York. In 2022, they presented a monumental sculpture in Brooklyn Bridge Park, commissioned by Public Art Fund.[14]

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Selected grants and residencies

Williams is the recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Graham Foundation Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University.[28] Williams has been awarded residencies at Smack Mellon and BTFA.[29]

Selected talks and lectures

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kiyan Williams Puts the American Flag in a Frying Pan . 2023-07-24 . www.culturedmag.com . en.
  2. Web site: September 26th . Antonucci . 2022 Marica . Kiyan Williams, Unsettling the Histories of Public Sculpture . 2023-07-24 . Monument Lab.
  3. Web site: Vogel . Wendy . Wendy Vogel on Kiyan Williams . 2023-07-24 . www.artforum.com . September 2022 . en-US.
  4. Web site: Bio . 2023-07-24 . Kiyan Williams . en-US.
  5. Web site: CV . 2023-07-24 . Kiyan Williams . en-US.
  6. Web site: CV . 2023-07-24 . Kiyan Williams . en-US.
  7. Web site: 2023-04-21 . How Artist Kiyan Williams Interrogates American History Through Mud . 2023-07-24 . Them . en-US.
  8. Web site: September 26th . Antonucci . 2022 Marica . Kiyan Williams, Unsettling the Histories of Public Sculpture . 2023-07-24 . Monument Lab.
  9. Web site: How Do You Properly Fry An American Flag . 2023-07-24 . Kiyan Williams . en-US.
  10. Web site: Kiyan Williams, Un/earthing, press release .
  11. Web site: THE MOON IS TRANS: ON CULTIVATING AN AESTHETICS OF REACHING Jeanne Vaccaro in conversation with P. Staff and Kiyan Williams . 2023-07-24 . www.textezurkunst.de.
  12. Web site: 2023-04-21 . How Artist Kiyan Williams Interrogates American History Through Mud . 2023-07-24 . Them . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2021-11-10 . BOMB Magazine Forms That Don't Yet Exist: Kiyan Williams Interviewed . 2023-07-24 . BOMB Magazine.
  14. Web site: Black Atlantic . 2023-07-26 . Public Art Fund . en-US.
  15. Web site: A Past That Is Future Tense . 2023-07-24 . Peres Projects . en.
  16. Web site: Kiyan Williams: A Crack Beneath the Weight of It All Altman Siegel . 2023-07-24 . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2022-05-28 . Hammer Projects: Kiyan Williams Hammer Museum . 2023-07-24 . hammer.ucla.edu . en.
  18. Web site: Guilford . Lauren . 2022-06-02 . PICK OF THE WEEK: Kiyan Williams . 2023-07-24 . Artillery Magazine . en-US.
  19. Web site: Kiyan Williams - Un/earthing . 2023-07-24 . Lyles & King . en-US.
  20. Web site: Dafoe . Taylor . 2022-06-03 . Why This Artist Is Deep-Frying American Flags—and Inviting Guests to Bring Their Favorite Seasonings for the Batter . 2023-07-24 . Artnet News . en-US.
  21. Web site: University . © Stanford . Stanford . California 94305 . Reaching Towards Warmer Suns Anderson Collection at Stanford University . 2023-07-24 . en.
  22. Web site: admin . 2020-09-11 . Kiyan Williams: something else (Variations on Americana) . 2023-07-24 . Recess . en-US.
  23. Web site: Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing . 2024-03-22 . whitney.org . en.
  24. Web site: Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, Gender June 10 - September 24, 2023 . 2023-07-24 . Green Family Art Foundation . en.
  25. Web site: 2023-07-26 . Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection . 2023-07-24 . Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian . en.
  26. Web site: Black Atlantic . 2023-07-26 . Public Art Fund . en-US.
  27. Web site: Black Atlantic . 2023-07-24 . Public Art Fund . en-US.
  28. Web site: Kiyan Williams. 2020-09-08. The Shed. en.
  29. Web site: Artist Residency . 2023-07-24 . BTFA Collective . en-US.
  30. Web site: CV . 2024-06-06 . Kiyan Williams . en-US.

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