Didier William, the Haiti-born, Miami-raised artist is now based in Philadelphia, but his new showcase is on now at The James Fuentes Gallery in Los Angeles.
The 3,700 square foot space, enclosed by 14-foot walls with exposed wood, will house Williams’ 14 new paintings in an exhibition entitled Things Like This Don’t Happen Here. It will be open until June 17.Â
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William’s new work features art that combines the techniques of painting and printmaking with techniques of carving and collage. He is known for his metaphysical and deeply imaginative style, and his new work describes underwater seascapes and his exploration of language, tradition, aesthetics, trauma.
He gives the oppressed permission to be. in a recent November 2022 Miami show he offered Black, queer immigrants some hope through the collection.
Didier William is originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned an BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Carnegie Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Figge Museum Art Museum.
He is represented by James Fuentes Gallery in New York and Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco. William was an artist-in-residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, a 2018 recipient of the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2020 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, a 2021 recipient of a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and a 2023 recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. He has taught at several institutions including Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, UPenn, and SUNY Purchase.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
