Mark Williams (American, born )

Timeline

1950
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1972
BFA - Art Education, North Texas State University, USA
1975
MFA - Painting and Sculpture, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, USA
1975
Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
1980
National Endowment for Arts
1985
Artists’ Space Artist’s Grant, New York, USA
1990
National Endowment for Arts
1995
Scholarship, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2007
Artist-in-Residence, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Lives and works in New York, USA

Exhibitions

2016–2017
Mark Williams – Positive Echo – New Small Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Visible Histories, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
2016
Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016
The Onward of Art: American Abstract Artists 80th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY
2016
Chromatic Space, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY
2016
Small Works / Big Scale – Mark Williams, Art For Thought gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
Endless Entire, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Three Painters – Frank Badur, Martha Groome, Mark Williams. Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015
on the edge, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2014
Mark Williams – Painter, Communications Hall Gallery, Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA (solo exhibition)
2014
Mark Williams – Recent Paintings, New Arts Program Space, Kutztown, PA
2013
The Grid and the Gesture, Haus der Kunst, Solothurn, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2013
The Assemblance of Presence. New work by Russell Maltz, John Monteith, Lars Strandh and Mark Williams, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
Under the Evening Light, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2013
Collage: Now Then & Again, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2013
Illusion of the Precise, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, USA
2013
A Different Practice, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2012
PAPER BAND, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York; Group Show, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2012
Impressions, Wade Wilson Art, Houston Texas, USA
2012
American Abstract Artists International 75th Anniversary, parisCONCRET, Paris, France
2012
negENTROPY, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin, Germany
2012
Drawing, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texa, USA
2012
Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, A Selection from the Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Collection, New York, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2012
Summer Love: To Be Looked at..., Close to..., Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2011
Paintings: Stratum/Structure, Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2011
XXV, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2011
75th Anniversary - American Abstract Artists International, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany
2011
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
2011
Splendor of Dynamic Abstraction: Celebrating 75 Years of the American Abstract Artists, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2011
12 Abstractions, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2011
8 - Eight American Abstract Artists, Selections from the Exhibition Abstraction Infinite, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2011
ABSTRACTION INFINITE, The Icebox, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2011
Black and White: extreme value, Gallery 61, New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA
2011
Synthetic Support: Plastic is the New Paper, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
2011
Large Scale: The Painting Show, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, USA
2011
In den Ausstellungshallen: Frank Badur, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Mikael Fagerlund, Mark Williams, Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
American Abstract Artists - 75th Anniversary, OK Harris, New York, USA
2010
American Abstract Artists International, The Bau Institute, Castello di Otranto, Otranto, Italy
2010
The White Album, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, USA
2010
Small Abstract Painting, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2010
Sculpture, Paintings and Works on Paper, Gallery 61 New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA
2010
Paper Works, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2010
Exquisitely Calibrated: Recent Paintings by Mark Williams, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo exhibition)
2010
Small Drawings and Studio Notebooks, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo exhibition)
2009
Snow White, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2009
Censored Inquiries by Joan Waltemath, Linda Francis, Mark Williams, 210 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009
Konkrete Idole, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
2009
Collages, Gallery 61, New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA
2009
Donation Jeunet - A Collection D'Art Contemporain, Les Acquisitions 2003-2009, Musee D'Art et D'Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2009
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland
2009
Beneath the Seen, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, USA
2009
Inaugural 09, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
2008
Farbsinn, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Visiting Visual Artist, SMU-in-Taos, Southern Methodist University, Taos, New Mexico
2008
Was ist hier zu sehen? zum Thema Abstraktion, 3. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany
2007
Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas
2007
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2007
Recent Paintings: Opportune Planes, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texaa USA (solo exhibition)
2006
Primary Means, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
2006
Lecture, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Series, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2006
“Mark Williams: Works on Paper”. Text by Robert Storr. Eight color reproductions.
2004
Made in New York - Paintings on Canvas, Wood and Paper, Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2002–2003
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2002–2003
Organized by Josef Helfenstein. Catalog. Travels to Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
2001
Visiting Artist, University of Texas at Tyler, Texas.

Public Collections

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Studio A, Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, USA
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ilinois, USA
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
Neiman Marcus, Florida, USA
Octa Nova, Gothenborg, Sweden
Pollock Works On Paper Study Collection, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Uwe Scheid Collection, Überherrn-Berus, Germany
Staatliches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
IBM, New York, USA
Werner Kramarsky, New York, USA
Bayerische Landesbank, New York, USA
Best Products, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Boston Consulting Group, Dallas, Texas, USA
CES Acquisition Corporation, New York, USA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Chemical Bank, New York, USA
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Jim and Carolyn Clark, Dallas, Texas, USA
Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman, New York, USA
Donation Jeunet, Musee D'Art, Neuchâtel (MAHN), Switzerland
English (US)

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