Unattended Baggage (Modern Warfare)
2024
Richmond, Virginia
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.
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).
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024
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.”