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Sandy Williams IV

Richmond, Virginia

Unattended Baggage (Modern Warfare) is an installation with camo backpack with an LED countdown reading 00:00:02:50, hanging in a metal frame surrounded by various embroidery patches, and string lights which are also entwined around the frame and extending out to a plug on the floor.

Unattended Baggage (Modern Warfare)

2024

00:10 (To Remember the Murder of Eric Garner) is a row of 10 rectangular bronze columns leaning against a white wall reading alternately 1 SECOND and 1 MPH, with ruler measurements on the other face of the column.

00:10 (To Remember the Murder of Eric Garner)

2024

Two views of the sculpture 40 ACRES: CAMP BARKER, which is a replica in wax of the Lincoln memorial sculpture of a seated President Lincoln. On the left it is in the original state, and on the right the sculpture has been melted and deformed with trails of melted wax.

40 ACRES: CAMP BARKER

2023 - 2024

grid of photographs depicting different elements of 40 ACRES: WEEKSVILLE, including images of a round semicircle of vapor trails in a blue sky, a group of people looking up, a vitrine of photos and documentation, and street sign reading Ralph Ave and East New York Avenue.

40 ACRES: WEEKSVILLE

2023 - 2024

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Sandy Williams IV

Sandy Williams IV stands outdoors with a faint smile, wearing a black hoodie and blazer. They are a Black person with shoulder-length dreadlocks and medium-l

Sandy Williams IV is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Richmond. They are a recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship. Williams’s work has been featured in solo shows at 1708 Gallery (Richmond), the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Ontario), Roanoke College, Telematic Arts (SF), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond), and Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville). Past collaborations include projects for Creative Time, CulturalDC, and Weeksville Heritage Center. Their selected group exhibitions and performances include The Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, The Arlington Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harnett Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), Grounds For Sculpture (New York) Martos Gallery (New York), M+B Gallery (Los Angeles), de boer Gallery (Los Angeles), Springsteen (Baltimore), and NADA House (New York). Williams has been an Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), SOMA (Mexico City), ACRE (Chicago), and the University of Cumbria (UK).

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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“ My work is about the persistence of memory, the body, and resistance, tasking audiences with agency in order to generate both public and private opportunities for collaborative engagement.”