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Didier William, born [date, 1986], is an Haitian-American painter, printmaker, mix-media artist and educator.

Early Life
William was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and, at age 6, he emigrated to the United States, moving first to Boston, Massachusetts and later to Miami, Florida.

Education
William received his BFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Ar t in 2007, and his MFA in printmaking and painting from Yale University in 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, having previously held posts at Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University and SUNY Purchase.

Career
Williams works with a range of techniques, including site-specific wall drawings, poured-paint canvas, and printmaking. William is well known for his use of non-gendered and non-racalized bodies to visually represent the complex social dynamics of contemporary immigrant urban living. His work engages questions about the strategies of myth-making and its influence on the historical narratives of colonialism in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. His work examines how diasporic community experience movement, memory, and loss. He has exhibited at national and international institutions, including the Bronx Museum of Art, the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, the Frost Museum in Miami, the Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Gallery Schuster in Berlin, among others.

Exhibitions
William's work has appeared in both solo and group exhibitions, in the U.S. and internationally. In 2017, William simultaneously mounted to solo shows, "We Will Win" at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in New York, and "Swarm", PRIZM Art Far in Miami. In 2018, he had two concurrent solo shows in New York, "Curtain, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1" at James Fuentes Gallery and "Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 2" at Anna Zorina Gallery.

Selected Group Shows

 * 2018: “Strange Looks," Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
 * 2018: “Isness," Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
 * 2017: “Fold Ten," C.R. Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA
 * 2015: "Bronx Calling," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
 * 2015: “The heart is a lonely hunter,” The Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
 * 2010: “I’ll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours,”  Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
 * 2008: “New Akademiks”, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany

Awards/Fellowships
Williams was awarded the Hearst Foundation Grant in 2009, 2010, and again in 2011. He received the Devan Lewis Fellowship, the Morris Lewis Award (2006, 2009), and seared as the Artist-in-Residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program in 2013-2014.


 * Morris Louis Award for Excellence in Painting, 2007
 * Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for Painting, 2009
 * Hearst Foundation Grant Recipient, 2009, 2010, 2011
 * Artist in Residence, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, 2012
 * Artist in Market Place, The Bronx Museum of Art, 2014
 * Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art, 2018

References/External Links
Category:Quilters Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:American textile artists Category:African-American artists Category:American artists Category:Women textile artists