Sue Williams

Born:
1956
Residence:
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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  • What I Loved takes its name from Siri Hustvedt’s 2003 novel, which looks back at the constellation of relationships and events in the New York art wor

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  • Half a century on from meeting Warhol, the fine-art photographer still knows what’s hot.

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  • This auction from Artcurial’s Urban Art department is dedicated towards the dispersion of a private collection, comprising 23 works that offers a perspective of the most iconic urban artists from the past few decades.

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  • Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, is hosting its “30th Anniversary Exhibition: Attics of My Life” that is on view from January 8, 2017 through February 5, 2017.

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  • Galerie Eva Presenhuber is hosting the fifth exhibition of Sue Williams through January 21, 2017, featuring fabric paintings and large-scale canvasses by the New York-based artist.

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  • On October 21st the Artes Mundi 7 Exhibition and Prize in Cardiff opened its doors to the British public, presenting a major exhibition of work from six of the world’s most innovative contemporary artists.

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  • The earliest works in Susan Te Kahurangi King’s overdue retrospective, running through October 30 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, date to 1958, when the artist was just seven years old.

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  • This week MoMA PS1 presents "Greater New York," a sprawling, building-wide exhibition that takes place every five years and has traditionally featured work by New York's most prominent emerging artists.

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  • Dear Jerry, I saw the Dan Colen show today. Yuck. Yuck beyond all yucks. Why do you think really bad art is shown in really good galleries? —JW Reeves

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  • Sue Williams’ mini-retrospective of nine mid-to-large paintings, along with several smaller ones and a grouping of collages on wallpaper

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  • 10 Captivating Exhibitions Opening this Week

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  • Strange are the paintings that simultaneously recall full-sleeve tattoos and Wedgwood china, Peter Saul’s cartoonish crassness and Willem de Kooning’s

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  • A typical Sue Williams painting is a messy affair, overflowing with lush cartoon orifices and the occasional tumescent horse.

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  • Without the prompting of her 303 Gallery show’s title – “WTC, WWIII, Couch Size” – few viewers would apprehend Sue Williams’s richly evocative new

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  • “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” opens at the New Museum on Feb. 13 and runs through May 26.

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  • What’s that? You haven’t been to Bleecker Street Arts Club yet, the fairly-recently-opened exhibition space situated on an unlikely block, far from

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  • "Flesh was the reason oil paint was invented," Willem de Kooning argued in the 1950s. This sensual awareness set his paintings apart —attuned to

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  • There’s a convention that Pink Is for Girls, but it hasn’t always been that way. The color, thought to be named after the frilled edge of a small flow

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BIOGRAPHY

Wiliams is a prominent artist with a recognised body of work and an exhibition history of both solo and group shows on five continents.  The work is both raw and accomplished; strong, charged and challenging in its links to contemporary lives and the sexualisation of western society.

Sue Williams’ continues to explore and challenge the fantasies of feminism, sexuality, gender and culture in her work, in doing so she offers her passionate and direct response to the complex world of human frailty – the stuff of life. Throughout her work she is constantly revealing an ambiguous boundary between a secure place and an insecure place, between the real and the imagined, drawing the viewer into her world of provocative sexual politics. Drawing plays a major role within her work and it is through the use of the drawn image that Sue Williams’ preoccupation with the notion of desire and frailty unfolds. The canvas and the paper are tools for the artist to manipulate, the use of text and material beyond the surface of the canvas adds to the theatrical and the unconventional, the disconnectedness of human connectedness revealed in Sue Williams’ work.

She has taken part in many exhibitions and residencies and has a clutch of prestigious awards recognising her art including the National Eisteddfod Wales (Gold Medal winner 2000), the Rootstein Hopkins Award (2000) and has shown in the Avesta Biennial, Sweden (2000) and the Site-ations Project in New York (2001). She was a shortlisted artist for the Artes Mundi 2, International Visual Art Prize 2006 selected by Deepak Ananth and Ivo Mesquita. In 2009 she was awarded a major Creative Wales Award by Arts Council of Wales. Her work features in several leading private and public collections throughout USA, Africa and Europe including the National Museum & Galleries of Wales; Contemporary Arts Society; Welsh Assembly Government and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.

 


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