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Galleria Lia Rumma

Naples / Milan

Christopher Williams

(American, born 1956)

‘valentine' typewriter, 1969, plastic (abs), design ettore sotsass jun., perry king manufacture ing. c. olivetti & co spa. italy, h 11,5 cm, inv. no. v6.3-393, 26 august 1996, (nr.1-2-3-4) by christopher williams

Christopher Williams

‘Valentine' typewriter, 1969, plastic (ABS), design Ettore Sotsass jun., Perry King manufacture Ing. C. Olivetti & Co Spa. Italy, h 11,5 cm, inv. no. V6.3-393, 26 August 1996, (Nr.1-2-3-4), 1996

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tai afrique - transport aeriens intercontinentaux paris, ca 1960 by christopher williams

Christopher Williams

TAI Afrique - Transport aeriens intercontinentaux Paris, ca 1960, 1997

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Biography

Timeline

1956
Born in Los Angeles
1978
received BFA, California Institute of Arts, Valencia
1981
received MFA, California Institute of Arts, Valencia
2004
grant recipient, J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles
2005
grant recipient, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
2014
received Photography Catalogue of the Year award, Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards, Paris and New York
lives and works in Cologne, Chicago, and Los Angeles
Professor, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf since 2008

Exhibitions

2018
Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Christopher Williams: Normative Models, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (solo exhibition)
Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie/Small Story(s) of Photography, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Still Life: Obstinacy of Things, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844-2018, Luma Foundation, Arles, France
Surface Matters, Mutina for Art, Fiorano Modenese, Italy
2017
Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Christopher Williams: Books Plus, ARCHIV, Zurich (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Models, Open Letters, Prototypes, Supplements, La Triennale di Milano, Milan (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Open Letter: The Family Drama Refunctioned? (From the Point of View of Production), David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Supplements, Models, Prototypes, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: Supplements, Models, Prototypes, ETH Zurich, Institute gta, Zurich (solo exhibition)
The Absent Museum, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels
Darren Bader (@mined_oud), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina Napoli (MADRE), Naples
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Jump into the Future: Art from the 90’s and 2000’s. The Borgmann Donation, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2016
Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Christopher Williams, Capitain Petzel, Berlin (solo exhibition)
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York
Albert Oehlen, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
BRD, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin [organized by Haubrok Foundation, Berlin]
California and the West: Photography from the Campaign for Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
L’image Volée/The Stolen Picture, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Mit anderen Augen/With Other Eyes, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
We Call It Ludwig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2015
Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Anatomies de l’automate, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Chalet Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Display Show, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin [itinerary: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, England; Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands]
Everything Must Go: Art and the Market, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
It’s Obvious, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Ostend, Belgium
Le Souffleur: Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [itinerary: The Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Rhona and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon]
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
We Are A Parasite On The Institution of Cinema, An Institution Of Parasites, 1st Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
2014
Christopher Williams Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 19), David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Art Institute of Chicago [itinerary: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London] (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna (solo exhibition)
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva [part of Des histoires sans fin/Endless stories series] (solo exhibition)
1984-1999: The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Darren Bader: Photographs I Like, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
In the Crack of the Dawn, LUMA Westbau / POOL etc, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich
Love Story: The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York [organized by Walead Beshty]
(Mis)Understanding Photography: Works and Manifestos, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Potent Wilderness: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Take It or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Thing Itself, Yancey Richardson, New York
To do as one would, David Zwirner, New York
What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York
2011
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12), David Zwirner, New York (solo)
Connected things collected, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation of Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
Tasters’ Choice, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Swagger, Drag, Fit Together, Wallspace Gallery, New York

Public Collections

Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend, Belgium
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sammlung Gundlach, Hamburg
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Italy
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
English (US)

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