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ROBIN F. WILLIAMS
b. 1984, Columbus, OH
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Night Shift, Pace Prints, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2024
Good Mourning, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Undying, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
Robin F. Williams: We've Been Expecting You, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2023
Watch Yourself, Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico
2021
Out Lookers, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Final Resting Face, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2019
With Pleasure, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Your Good Taste is Showing, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2016
Trailing Off, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2014
Sons of the Pioneers, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2011
Rescue Party, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2009
New Work, Space 414, Brooklyn, NY
2008
After Birth, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Two by Two Together, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection, The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Le vernissage, partie un, Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France
2023
Ravens and Crows, Winter Street Gallery and Brigitte Mulholland, Paris, France
Women on the Verge, curated by Lisa Wainwright, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, Blum & Poe LLC, Los Angeles, CA
This American Life, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA
In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2022
Even a Cat Can Look at the Queen, Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY
I’m Not Your Mother, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Come As You Are, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL
Finger Bang, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
A Few Small Nips, Mrs., Queens, NY
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA Miami, Miami, FL
2021
Applied Anxiety, Allouche Benias, Athens, Greece
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus, OH
Bitter Nest, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York, NY
Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2018
SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
PLUS ONE, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2017
Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY
Separation Anxiety, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2016
Et in Arcadia Ego, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
The Woman Destroyed, curated by Anneliis Beadnell, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Expo Chicago, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2015
The Earth is All I Know of Wonder: Contemporary Responses to Hartley, Driscoll Babcock, New York, NY
2014
Escape from New York! New Garde Now, Gallery Poulsen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013
Skin Trade, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2012
100 Little Deaths, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
Texas Contemporary, P·P·O·W, Houston, TX
EXPO Chicago, P·P·O·W, Chicago, IL
Seven, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL
RISD Icons, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2011
Pulse LA Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Los Angeles, CA
Suggestivism, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Seven, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL
2010
Marked: A Show of Figure, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Grand Central Art Center, 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 Projects, 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
RISD Senior Illustration Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2005 RISD Athena Awards, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019
Artist in Residence, La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
2018
Visual Artist Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012
Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2011
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
2010
Brooklyn Academy of Music Spring “Playbill Artist,” Brooklyn, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
X Museum, Beijing, China
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Berenz, Sarah. “Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You.” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH,
2024.
2022 Luckraft, Paul, and Elizabeth Neilson, editors. “Robin F. Williams in Conversation with Paul Luckraft.” The Stand-Ins:
Figurative Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2022, pp. 12–23.
Pellerin, Ananda, editor. “Robin F. Williams.” Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists’ Stories About Life & Work,
1st ed., Atelier Editions, Los Angeles, CA, 2022, pp. 313–324.
Young, Allison K. “Robin F. Williams.” Great Women Painters, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2022, p. 321.
2021 Stephenson, Sarah, editor. “In Conversation with Louis Fraction, Loie Hollowell, Nicolas Party, Billy Sullivan, Robin
F. Williams.” PASTEL: An Exhibition by Nicholas Party, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, 2021, pp. 124–
145.