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