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Didier William

Didier William is a mixed-media[1] painter originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.[2][3][4] His work incorporates traditions in oil painting, acrylic, collage and printmaking to comment on intersections of identity and culture.[5][6]

Didier William in his studio. Photo: Ryan Collerd, Courtesy of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage

Early life and education edit

William was born in 1983 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.[7] He grew up in Miami, Florida, and received his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art.[2][3][4][7] William earned his MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art.[7]

He was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Archived 2019-03-25 at the Wayback Machine in Brooklyn, NY and has taught at the Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, and SUNY Purchase. In 2016 he was appointed Chair of the MFA Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He vacated this position in May 2019.[2][3][4] In the fall 2019, Didier was appointed Assistant Professor in Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, NJ.[8]

Career edit

Didier William's paintings are concerned with blackness and other identities subjected to an othering gaze and socioeconomic oppression, drawing on his experiences of immigrating to the United States from Haiti. His works embrace traditional conventions of painting in their size and planarity, but integrate collage and mixed media to reflect to layers on meaning in each piece. Didier's exploration of the gaze, Haitian Voudou, history, folklore, and identity is expressed through works that depict human figures.[1][6] His Curtains, Stages, Shadows series (2017-2018) was in part inspired by events surrounding Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager who was shot to death in 2012. He is currently working on a large-scale project related to Curtains, Stages, Shadows for 2020.[9]

Exhibits edit

His work has been exhibited at group shows and solo exhibitions in various institutions, including The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, Bronx Museum of Art, Frederick and Freiser Gallery, The Fraenkel Gallery, and Gallery Schuster in Berlin.[2][3][4]

Solo exhibitions edit

2010. Didier William at Galerie Schuster, Berlin Germany[10]

2015. “Camouflage” Hap Gallery, Portland, Oregon[11]

2017. “Swarm,” PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, Fl (2 person show with Nestor Armando Gil)[10]

2017. “We Will Win,” Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York NY[12]

Group exhibitions edit

2005. “Disegno: Contemporary Drawing Exhibition,” MICA, Kansas City Art Institute, Princeton University, California College of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Art[10]

2008. “Transformers”, Gateway/BlackBox Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art[13]

2008. “New Akademiks”, Galerie Schuster, Berlin Germany[14]

2009. “Summer Exhibition”, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY[15]

2009. “The Open,” Deitch Projects Long Island City, New York, NY[16]

2010. “Artquake”, Renaissance fin Art, New York, NY[10]

2010. “Nice to meet you”, Sloan fine Art, New York, NY[17]

2010. ”I’ll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours”, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, NY[10]

2011. “Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds”, Underground Gallery at The Betsy Hotel, Miami, FL[10]

2011. Momenta Art Benefit, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY[10]

2011. “Artquake”, Organized by Haiti Cultural Exchange, Brooklyn NY[18]

2012. "Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape," Organized by Spaceshifter Projects and curated by Sangram Majumdar and Karla Wozniak, Brooklyn, NY[19]

2014. “Improvised Showboat,” Brooklyn, NY[20]

2014. “No more place”, Alferro Gallery, Newark, NJ[10]

2015. “Bronx Calling,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY[21]

2015. “The heart is a lonely hunter,” The Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA[22]

2016. “Enlarged Fern” Moskowitz Bayse[23]

2017. Pacific Standard Time, “Relational Undercurrents” Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA[24]

2017. “Accordion Space,” Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, Union College, Schenectedy. NY[25]

2017. “Passenger Pigeon Press Anniversary Show,” La Maison D’Art, NY[10]

2017. “Fold Ten,” C.R Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA[26]

2018. “Aesthetics of Matter,” Volta Art Fair, NY[27]

2018. “Isness,” Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY[28]

2018. “Strange Looks,” Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO[29]

Awards edit

2007. Morris Louis Award for Excellence in Painting[17]

2006 & 7. Maryland Citation for Excellence in the Arts, Office of Senator Verna Jones[17]

2007 & 8. MFA Student Fellowship, Yale University School of Art[17]

2009. Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for Painting[17]

2009, 10, & 11. Hearst Foundation Grant Recipient[17]

2012. Artist in Residence. Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Brooklyn NY[17]

2014. Artist in the Market Place, The Bronx Museum of Art[17]

2018. Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art[17]

References edit

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  2. ^ a b c d "Graduate Fine Arts | PennDesign". www.design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  3. ^ a b c d "Didier William - 2018/2019 Visiting Artist and Practitioner Series | Department of Art | UMass Amherst". www.umass.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  4. ^ a b c d "Visiting Artists' Program Continues Mar. 27 with Didier William – Faculty of Arts and Sciences". fas.camden.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  5. ^ "Didier William". Art in America.
  6. ^ a b "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week". The New York Times. 2018-11-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-18.
  7. ^ a b c "Anna Zorina Gallery - William Didier Biography" (PDF). Anna Zorina Gallery. March 2018.
  8. ^ "Didier William appointed Assistant Professor in Expanded Print". Mason Gross School of the Arts. March 29, 2019.
  9. ^ Soldi, Rafael (December 13, 2018). "Q&A: Didier William". Strange Fire Collective.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Biography | Anna Zorina Gallery". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  11. ^ "Hap Gallery | HapWorks | Camouflage". hapgallery.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  12. ^ "NY / Didier William: We Will Win". Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  13. ^ Ober, Cara (5 November 2008). "Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye at MICA October 13 – November 16 – BmoreArt | Baltimore Contemporary Art". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  14. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  15. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  16. ^ "MutualArt.com - The Web's Largest Art Information Service". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i "William, Didier". coleccion-jimenezcolon.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  18. ^ lisaparavisini (2011-01-04). "ArtQuake projects commemorates Haiti's 2010 earthquake". Repeating Islands. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  19. ^ "Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape : Jackie Gendel". www.jackiegendel.com. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  20. ^ "Zachary Keeting / Improvised Showboat". Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  21. ^ "Bronx Calling - Exhibitions - The Bronx Museum of the Arts". www.bronxmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  22. ^ "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Curated by Katy Grannan". Fraenkel Gallery. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  23. ^ "Group Exhibition - Enlarged Fern". Moskowitz Bayse. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  24. ^ "Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago". Wallach Art Gallery | Columbia University. 2017-08-04. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  25. ^ "Accordion Space | Visual Arts". muse.union.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  26. ^ Mitchell, Samantha (2017-12-21). "Fold: Ten Conversations". Title Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  27. ^ "Aesthetics Matter at the Volta Art Fair". Hyperallergic. 2018-03-09. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  28. ^ "Isness | Morgan Lehman Gallery | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
  29. ^ "Strange Looks". Gildar Gallery. 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2019-03-25.

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