Sue Williams
1954 Born in Chicago Heights, Illinois
Education
1975 -1976
B.F.A, California Institute of the Arts
1973
Cooper Union
Grants & Awards
1993
Guggenheim Fellowship
Solo Exhibitions
2020
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2018
“Sue Williams: New Paintings”, Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“Sue Williams: Paintings 1997-98”, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
2017
303 Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
303 Gallery, New York, NY
James Cohen, Shanghai, China
2013
Maruani & Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
2011
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010
“Al-Qaeda is the CIA”, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Eva Presenbuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
“Sue Williams: Project for the New American Century”, David Zwirner, New York,[catalogue]
Ormeau Baths Gallery OBG, Belfast, Ireland
2006
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Liandudno, Wales
2005
303 Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2003
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Carpenter Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2002
Secession, Vienna, Austria, and IVAM, Valencia, Spain (in 2003)
Galerie Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2001
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
2000
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1999
Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Galerie und Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Sadie Coles, London, UK
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
1997
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
1996
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Modulo Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
1995 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
1994
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Modulo, Lisboa, Portugal
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France
Editions Julie Sylvester, New York, NY
1992
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO
1991 Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2019 “303 Gallery: 35 Years”, New York, NY
“Downtown Painting”, Presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
2018
“Trance”, Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon
“Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Lineage: de Kooning and His Influence”, Skarstedt, New York
“Remote Castration”, Laxart, Los Angeles
“Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century,” Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashvill
2017
“Sculpture, Painting, and Video”, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
“Animal Farm”, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich
“Larry Clark, White Trash”, Luhring Augustine, New York
“Zeitgeist”, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
“Attics of My Life”, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
“What I Loved: Selected Works from the 90s”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2016
“Man Alive”, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Seeing double: artist duos in the Summer Exhibition”, Royal Academy, London,
“New York New York, Paint! Paint!”, Showroom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Don’t Look Back: The 1990s”, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2015
“Painting 2.0 Expression in the information age”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Greater New York”, MoMA PS1, New York
“Better Than de Kooning”, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
“America is Hard to See”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Rubell Family Collection, Miam
2014
“Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2013
“Comic Future”, Ballroom Marfa
2012
“The Perfect Show”, 303 Gallery, New York
“Figuring Color”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“The Displaced Person”, Invisible-Exports, New York
2011
“Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2010
“Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection,”
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
“Visceral Bodies”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada
“Collecting Biennials”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009
“MOCA’s First Thirty Years” – MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
“Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969 – 2009”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
2008
“The Gallery”, David Zwirner, New York
“Pretty Ugly”, Gavin Brown Enterprise and Maccarone, New York
“Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
“We Are Stardust, We Are Golden. Women at Johnen + Schöttle since 1984”, Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
“Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2007
“Jubilee Exhibition”, House Eva Presenhuber Vnà, Engiadina Bassa, Switzerland
“The Third Mind”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”, Museo de Bellas Artes Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
“JACKSON”, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
“Beneath the Underdog”, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
“Fast Forward: Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
“InWords: The Art of Language”, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark
“Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006
“Open House”, Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
“Defamation of Character”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
“Into Me/Out of Me”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City: traveling to Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
“Bearings: the Female Figure”, PS 122 Gallery, New York
“Lara Schnitger, Lily van der Stokker, Sue Williams”, Modern Art, London, England
“New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music, and Video”, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
“Still Points of the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth International Biennial”, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
2005 “‘Artists’ Books Revisited”, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: traveling to
Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY
“Extreme Abstraction”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
2004
“North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now”, curated by Klaus Kertess, The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2003
“Size Matters”, Texas Gallery, Houston
“Drawing”, G Gallery, Washington
“Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism”, University of Santa Barbara
2002
“Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation”, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA (travelling exhibition)
“Contemporary Art Project”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
“Art in the ‘toon age”, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University
2001
“Brooklyn!”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth
“Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
“Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Pop & Post-Pop [On Paper]”, Texas Gallery, Houston
“Locating Drawing”, Lawing Gallery, Houston
2000 “Open Ends”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Drawings 2000”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“There Is Something You Should Know: EVN Sammlung”, Ostereichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Palais De Beaux-Art de Bruxelles, curated by Thierry de Dove, Brussels, Belgium
1999
“The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Negotiating Small Truths”, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
1998
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
“Skulptur Figur Weiblich”, Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria
“Painting: Now and Forever,” Part I, Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Pop Surrealism”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
“Connections, Contradictions”, Emory University, Atlanta
1997 “1997 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art
“Multiple Identity: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
“Birth of the Cool”, curated by Bice Curiger, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
“Painting Project”, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York
1996
“Ideal Standard Life”, Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
“The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art”, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
1995
“1995 Biennal Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
25 Americans: Painting in the 90’s”, curated by Dean Sobel, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,
“Imperfect”, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Oltre La Normalita Concentrica”, curated by Gianni Romano, Comunune di Padova, Padova, Italy
“feminimasculin, le sexe de l’art”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1994
“Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Sue Williams”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Coicido y Crucido”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
“Sue Williams, Lorna Simpson, Tony Oursler, John Currin, Kathe Burkhart”,
Galleria Galliani, Genova, Italy
“Sue Williams/Wendy Jacobs”, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
“1993 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Regarding Masculinity”, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA1993
“Bad Girls”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England and Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
“The Art of Language”, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“The Subject of Rape”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Aperto”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Die Arena Des Privaten”, Kunstverein Munchen, Munchen, Germany
“Privacy”, curated by Gianni Romano, Documentario, Milano, Italy
“Speilholle”, curated by Kasper Konig and Robert Fleck, Akadamie der Kunste und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, Germany
” Getting to kNOw you”, Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
“Drawings”, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
“Fear of Painting”, curated by Dan Cameron, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York
“Darkness Visible”, The Drawing Center, New York
“How It Is”, curated by Jonathan Seliger, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
“Dysfunction in the Family Album”, curated by David Humphrey, Diane Brown Gallery, New York
1991 “Ashley King, Lauren Szold, Sue Williams”, 303 Gallery, New York
“Drawings”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
“New Generations: New York”, curated by Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
“Presenting Rearwards”, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
“Karen Kilimnik, Gavin Brown, Sue Williams”, 303 Gallery, New York
“Brut 90”, White Columns, New York
1989
“Hard Life”, White Columns, New York
1988
Gallery Artists, Loughelton Gallery, New York
1987
“Lust”, M-13 Gallery, New York
“The Double Bind”, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY, in collaboration with “Art Against AIDS” (catalogue)
1985
“Sex Show”, Cable Gallery, New York
1984
“Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York
Group Show, Hudson Center, New York
1983
“Sue Williams, Vincent Gallo”, curated by Edit Deak, Patrick Fox Gallery, New York
1980
“Americans”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
“Interiors”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Performances
1986
“Damaged Goods”, The New Museum, New York, NY, “Docent Tour”, with Andrea Fraser