ROBIN F WILLIAMS 

1984    Born in Columbus, OH 

2006   Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA 

Solo Exhibitions

2019    (Forthcoming) Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

2017    "Your Good Taste is Showing" P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

2016   “Trailing Off” Bard at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA

2014   "Sons of the Pioneers" P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

2011   “Rescue Party” P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

2009  “New Work” Space 414, Brooklyn, NY

2008  “After Birth” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2017

• "Post Analogue Painting II" The Hole, New York, NY

• "Separation Anxiety" Project: ARTspace, New York, NY

2016

• “Et Arcadia Ego” New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

• “The Woman Destroyed” ” P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

• “Expo Chicago” ” P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

2015

• “The Earth is All I Know of Wonder: Contemporary Responses to Hartly” Driscoll Babcock, New York, NY

2014

• "Sargent's Daughters" Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY

2013  

• ”Skin Trade” P•P•O•W Gallery, New York, NY

2012  

• “One Hundred Little Deaths” BravinLee Programs, New York, NY

• “Seven” P•P•O•W Gallery, Miami, FL

• “Texas Contemporary”, P•P•O•W Gallery, Houston, TX

• “Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition” Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

• “RISD Icons”, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI

• “Permanent Collection, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY

2011  

• “Pulse Los Angeles” P•P•O•W Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

• “Suggestivism” Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA 

• “Seven” P•P•O•W Gallery, Miami, FL

2010  

• “Marked: A Show of Figure” Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

• “The Antidote” Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY

2009  

• “Vintage Violence” Space 414, Brooklyn, NY

• “American Dream” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

• “Old School” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

• “Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition” Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY

2008  

• “Scope Miami” Jack the Pelican Presents, Miami, FL

• “Emerging Artists…at any age” L.A. Art House, Los Angeles, CA

2007    

• “Scope Miami” Jack the Pelican Presents, Miami, FL

• “Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present” Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. Ltd., New York, NY

• “Scope Hamptons” Jack the Pelican Presents, Wainscott, NY

• “Fecal Face 7.5 Anniversary Show” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• “The Fall Season” Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY 

• “Winter Faction” Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

2006    

• “$760,000 Show” Senior Exhibition, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI 

• “RISD Senior Showcase” Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI 

2005  

• “RISD Athena Awards” Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY 

Selected Bibliography

2014

• Friedman, Julia, “Dreaming of Fluorescent Men,” Hyperallergic, March 5, 2014

• Valdez, Aldrin, “A New Sympathetic Masculine Mythology,” Art Slant, March 12, 2014.

• ”10 Hypnotic Paintings That Challenge Art’s Obsession With the Female Nude,” Huffington Post, February 28, 2014.

2013

• “Robin Williams,” Naked But Safe, #3.

2011  

• Larkin, Corina, "Robin Williams, Rescue Party," The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2011.

• Heinrich, Will, "The Painting Looks at Us: Robin Williams' First Solo Show", The New York Observer, Feb 1, 2011.

• Sutton, Benjamin, "Creepy Toys and Awkward Kids", The L Magazine, Feb 16, 2011.

• Drumm, Perrin, “Robin Williams solo show at PPOW gallery”, SUNfiltered, February 8, 2011.

• Moore, Caitlin, Beautiful Decay, Book 6 The Future Project Issue, 2011.

Honors and Awards

2013  Served on the Society of Illustrators Student Competition jury

2012  Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellow at The MacDowell Colony

2011   MacDowell Colony Fellowship

2010  Brooklyn Academy of Music Spring “Playbill Artist” for the 2010 season. 

Invitational Visiting Artist Lectures

2011  

• New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

• Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ

Teaching

2014

• School of Visual Arts, Adjunct Faculty 2013-present

2013

• New York Academy of Art, Adjunct Faculty