MARK WILLIAMS
BIOGRAPHY
1975 Born, Columbus, Ohio
EDUCATION
2005 Green Street Arts Center, Middletown, CT
2002-2004 University of Connecticut, Storrs
M.F.A.
2001 Rhode Island School of Design
1999-2000 School of Visual Arts, New York
1998-1999 Art Students League, New York
1993-1997 Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
B.F.A. Painting and Printmaking
1996 Lacoste School of the Arts, Lacoste, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Killer Angels", Grand Projects, New Haven, CT
2006 “Propagating War”, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, CT
2001 “Paintings and Works on Paper”, AS220, Providence, Rhode Island
1999 War Photographs”, New Youth Gallery, Hicksville, Ohio
“Recent Work”, Live Paint Fine Art, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- curated by Jack and Sosse Baker
- chosen by Sol LeWitt for inclusion
Real Party Benefit, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
“Spring Salone.07”, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Three Rivers Biennial Faculty & Staff Art Show”, Norwich, CT
2006 “48 Hours of Art”, First Night Hartford installation in Hartford 21 building, Hartford, CT
“La Superette 2006”, Eyebeam, New York, NY
The Postcard Show, Chester Gallery, Chester, CT
Artspace’s 9th Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Moxie: The Best of City-Wide Open Studios 2005”, Green Gallery,
Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
- curated by Jodi Hanel of Exit Art, New York
“Toys”, Red Saw, Newark, NJ
“Model Citizens”, Artspace annex, New Haven, CT / Rockingham Arts
and Museum Project, Bellows Falls, VT / Albany International Airport
Gallery, Albany, NY
- curated and conceived by Michael Oatman
“49th Annual National Juried Exhibition”, Rocky Mount Arts Center,
Rocky Mount, NC
- curated by Carlo McCormick, senior editor of Paper Magazine
“Members Show”, Windham Arts Center, Willimantic, CT
“Salon des Independents”, Hygienic Art Galleries, New London, CT
"The Boss Show", Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York
2005 “La Superette 2005", Exit Art, New York
“Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“2006 Season Preview Exhibition”, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Artspace’s 8th Annual City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
"Politics as Usual" : Eight artists express their views on America's
foreign policy, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
Eastern Connecticut State University Faculty Show, Willimantic, CT
“The 23rd Annual BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Show”, Empire-Fulton
Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
“The Sculpture Salmagundi IX”, Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC
“Fountainhead”, Gallery Q, Norwich, CT
2004 “Fully Tilted”, Sideshow Gallery, New York
“Full Tilt”, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Connecticut
2003 “New York Area MFA Exhibition”, Hunter College/Times SquareGallery, New York
2002 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“Hash Brown Potatoes”, Smack Mellon Studios, New York
“Pop”, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Paperwork”, Pacifico Fine Art, New York
2001 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“2 x 4”, New Urban Arts, Providence, Rhode Island
“Half-Mast”, Mononhasset Mill Project Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
“Red Hot and Cool”, Pacifico Fine Art, New York
“Works on Paper”, Pacifico Fine Art, New York
“Traces of Provence”, The French Institute Alliance Francaise, New York
2000 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“Dog Days”, Pacifico Fine Art, New York
“Sidelong Glance”, im n iL, Brooklyn, New York
Live Paint Fine Art, New York
1999 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
New Youth Gallery, New York
1998 “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“NV Art”, Prospectus Gallery, Oxford, Ohio
1997 Gallery Green, Oxford, Ohio
“Viola Peacock”, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“City-Wide heads to the ‘hoods”, New Haven Register, October 15, 2006
“Playful pieces featured in Short North exhibit”, The Columbus Dispatch,
October 12, 2006
“Questions that need to be asked – a (self) interview with Mark Williams”, UCONN Free Press,
Volume 1, Issue 4, Week of January 30, 2006
“Marketing war for children”, Chronicle, January 19, 2006
“Windham Art Center starts year with provocative exhibit, ‘Propagating War’”,
Broadcaster North Edition, January 13, 2006
“'Propagating War' Exhibit”, Neighbors, January 2006
“Art Exhibit”, Broadcaster North Edition, January 6, 2006
“Exhibit mixes politics and art”, The Daily Star, September 15, 2005
“Iraqi Freedom To Crawford Yacht Club Launch”, Cool’Eh, Issue no. 4, Vol No. 1
Review of book 26 Drawings by Mark Williams, Umbrella, August 2004
“Hash Brown Potatoes”, The New York Times, July 12, 2002
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2005 Full fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, Joan Mitchell Foundation
1996 Lacoste School of the Arts Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art
Robert Wolfe Printmaking Scholarship, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio