Michael Williams

MPGA (1), 2020
Oil and UV print on photo paper mounted to canvas
97 12 x 157 inches (247.7 x 398.8 cm)

About

Michael Williams (b. 1978, Doylestown, Pennsylvania) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has been the subject of major exhibitions at The Power Station, Dallas (2022); LOK, the Kunstzone in the Lokremise, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (with Tobias Pils, 2017); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2017); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada (2015); and Gallery Met, New York (2015). Recent group shows include .paint, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020); Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams, Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2018); The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon (2017); High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016); Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna (2015); and The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014). His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Hammer Museum, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Canada.

Exhibitions

Publications

Select Press

Opening

The Brooklyn Rail

Phyllis Tuchman

June 5, 2020

Luck of the Draw

Artforum

Dan Nadel

April 1, 2017

Michael Williams comes to Brussels with Gladstone Gallery

Widewalls

Lorenzo Pereira

March 1, 2016

The Paintbrush in the Digital Era

The New York Times

Roberta Smith

December 11, 2014

Images of Existential Crisis Almost Look Cute To Us Now: A Talk with Michael Williams

ARTnews

Bill Powers

December 3, 2014

Morning Zoo

Time Out London

Eddy Frankel

November 12, 2014

In The Studio with Michael Williams

Opening Ceremony

Alexandre Stipanovich

December 17, 2013

‘Paintings‘

The New York Times

Roberta Smith

December 5, 2013

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