EDUCATION
Yale School of Art
Painting and Printmaking, MFA, 2009
Maryland Institute College of Art
Painting, BFA, 2007
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Beyond the Bodies’ Edge, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Fire Flight, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH
2023
Things Like This Don’t Happen Here, James Fuentes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
Paul Gardère and Didier William, Soft Network, New York, NY (two-person show)
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2021
Dance, Without Incident, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Siklon, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Didier William: Lakou, curated by Andrew Wallace, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA (catalogue)
2020
Pulse, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
Pulse, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Broken Skies, Art Basel Miami, NOVA Section, Miami, FL
2018
Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 2, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
2017
We Will Win, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York NY
Swarm, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, Fl, 2017 (2 person show with Nestor Armando Gil)
2015
Camouflage, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR
2010
Didier William, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, DE
Didier William, Galerie Schuster, Miami, FL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
A Study in Form (Chapter Two), curated by Arden Wohl, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
Conversation Galante, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home, New Orleans, LA (forthcoming)
Toward the Celestial: ICA Miami’s Collection at 10 Years, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL
2023
45 (Between the Seams), PM/AM, London, UK
Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, MA
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Frist Art Museum, TN
The Armory, Altman Siegel, New York, NY
The Other Side of the Mirror is Home, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, CH
{UNDER}flow, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
2022
The Armory, New York, NY
Evade or Ensnare: Decorative Illusionism in Historic and Contemporary Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark
Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s-Today, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Augurhythms, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Art Brussels, M+B, Brussels, BE
2021
10, PM/AM, London, UK
Victoria Miro x OUT Collective, Victoria Miro Online
Phantom Body, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2020
Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
There will come soft rains, Stellar Projects, New York, NY
Show Me the Signs, Blum & Poe Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
Painting Is Its Own Country, curated by Dexter Wimberly, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for
African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, NC
State of the Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Building a Better Monument, Art at a Time Like This, online exhibition curated by Seph Rodney
Theft & Found, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
The Gag, curated by Devan Shimoyama, De Buck Gallery, New York, NY
Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
They Gaze, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
As long as we are flyin’ all this world ain’t got no end, Luce Gallery, Torino, Italy
Bed, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018
ZIG ZAG ZIG, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Swarm, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Strange Looks, Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO
ISNESS, curated by Austin Thomas, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Aesthetics of Matter, curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont, Volta Art Fair, NY
2017
Swarm, PRIZM Art Fair, Miami, FL (2-person exhibition with Nestor Armando Gil)
Fold Ten, C.R Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Passenger Pigeon Press Anniversary Show, La Maison D’Art, New York, NY
Accordion Space, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts, Union College, Schenectedy, NY
Relational Undercurrents, as part of the Getty Museum’s Pacific Standard Time initiative, at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
2016
Enlarged Fern, Moskowitz Bayse
2015
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, curated by Katy Grannan, The Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bronx Calling, curated by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and Laura Napier, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2014
No More Place, Alferro Gallery, Newark NJ
Improvised Showboat, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape, Organized by Spaceshifter Projects and curated by Sangram Majumdar and Karla Wozniak, Brooklyn NY
2011
Artquake, Organized by Haiti Cultural Exchange, Brooklyn NY
Momenta Art Benefit, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds, Underground Gallery at The Betsy Hotel, Miami, FL
2010
I’ll let you be in my dreams, if I can be in yours, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
Nice to meet you, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
Artquake, Renaissance Fine Art, New York, NY
2009
The Open, curated By Dodie Kazanjian and Deitch Projects Directors, Deitch Projects Long Island City, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2008
New Akademiks, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, DE
Transformers, Gateway/BlackBox Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Repossession: Paul Gardère and Didier William, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, 2024
OffSight, curated by Didier William, James Fuentes Gallery, 2022
Proximity, curated by Josephine Halvorson and Didier William, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY, 2019
Map, curated by Josephine Halvorson and Didier William, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
Play Book: a Selection of Work from the MFA Programs at Boston University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY, 2017
AWARDS AND HONORS
Key to the City, North Miami, FL, 2023
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant, 2022
Pew Fellow, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, 2021
Joan Mitchell Grant Recipient, 2020
The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL, 2019
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art, 2018
Artist in the Market Place, The Bronx Museum of Art, 2014
Artist in Residence. Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Brooklyn NY, 2012
Hearst Foundation Grant Recipient, 2009, 2010, & 2011
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for Painting, 2009
MFA Student Fellowship, Yale University School of Art, 2007 & 2008
Maryland Citation for Excellence in the Arts, Office of Senator Verna Jones, 2006 & 2007
Morris Louis Award for Excellence in Painting, 2007
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
“Art Exhibitions That Don’t Look Away From the Rocky Realities,” Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 2024
“Conversation Galante Conversation #1: Ana Benaroya & Didier William,” Pilar Corrias, 2024
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at The Phillips,” C.M. Watts, BMore Art, 2024
“New Orleans’s Prospect.6 Triennial Names 49 Artists for 2024 Edition Opening in November,” Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews, 2024
“Prospect New Orleans announces artist list for its 2024 triennial,” Maxwell Rabb, Artsy, 2024
“Sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans will feature 49 artists’ works throughout the city,” Benjamin Sutton, The Art Newspaper, 2024
“5 groundbreaking Caribbean American artists,” Noelani Kirschner, Share America, 2023
“10 Art Shows to See in LA This May,” Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic, 2023
“10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence,” Jason Farago, Will Heinrich, Roberta Smith and Yinka Elujoba, New York Times, 2023
“13 events, pop-ups and launches to get active in L.A. once spring finally arrives,” Los Angeles Times, 2023
“A painter reimagines his Haitian childhood through magical realism,” Margarita Lila Rosa, i-D, 2023
“A Portfolio: Didier William,” Juxtapoz, 2023
“Artsy celebrates Pride Month with Artists for Pride Impact Auction,” Jordan Robledo, Gay Times, 2023
“Artist Didier William Wants Surprise, Not Closure, From The Canvas,” Devan Díaz, Cultured Magazine, 2023
“Artists unite for LGBTQIA+ homeless youth in auction marking Pride Month,” Hannah Silver, Wallpaper*, 2023
“Weekly Countdown: Bonus round: ‘Didier William: Things Like This Don’t Happen Here,’” Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 2023
“Didier William,” Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Art Forum, 2023
“Didier William: artist who gouges deep into his heritage,” Caroline Roux, Financial Times, 2023
“Didier William with Charles M. Schultz (Transcript),” Charles M. Schultz, Brooklyn Rail, 2023
“Didier William Comes Home for His Solo Exhibition at MOCA,” Isabella Marie Garcia, Miami New Times, 2023
“Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè,” exhibition catalogue, Erica Moiah James and Sampada Aranke. Edited by Adeze Wilford, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, 2023
“Didier William: Opaque Bodies/Spiritual Futures,” Julián Sánchez González and Didier William,” MoMA Magazine, 2023
“Didier William: Unearthing Black Immigrant, Queer Narratives Through Art,” Ashely Miznazi, The Haitian Times, 2023
“Didier William's New Body of Work Combining Personal Narratives and Mythology Take Over James Fuentes,” Hesper Cane, Widewalls, 2023
“Episode 362/Didier William,” Sound & Vision Podcast, 2023
“Five Afro-Caribbean artists explore the body, family, identity in ‘{UNDER}flow‘,“ Angela Oliver, ArtsATL, 2023
“Haiti-born Didier William’s dazzling, gazing paintings are literally an eyeful,” Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 2023
”James Fuentes Gallery | Didier William’s ‘Things Like This Don’t Happen Here’ Inaugural Show,” Isaac Dektor, Flaunt Magazine, 2023
“Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation announces 2022 Biennial Grants,” e-flux, 2023
“Marlon Johnson presents The Retrofit at Deering Estate,” Melisa Diaz, Miami’s Community News 2023
”Mystics and Histories: Arts Calendar May 4-10,” Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, 2023
“Pride and Ethnicity: Color, Figuration, and Culture,” Maya Garabedian, MutualArt, 2023
“Shows to See in the US this January,” Monica Uszerowicz , Frieze, 2023
“Underworlds,” Stephen Ellcock, Thames and Hudson, 2023
“Weekly Countdown,” Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 2023
“Wet Paint in the Wild: Gallerist James Fuentes Sets Up Shop in L.A. and Takes Us Behind the Scenes of Painter Didier Williams’s Opening Show,” Annie Armstrong, Artnet, 2023
“What Happens on Page 76 in This Season’s New Books?,” New York Times Style Magazine, 2023
“10 Must-See Gallery and Museum Shows during Miami Art Week,” Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Artsy, 2022
“11 Must-See Museum Shows During Art Basel Miami Beach, From a Didier William Retrospective to the First U.S. Exhibition of Michel Majerus,” Artnet News, Artnet, 2022
“12 Museum Exhibitions to See in Miami During Art Basel,” Paul Laster, Galerie Magazine, 2022
“Art of Black Miami Creates a Platform to Celebrate Talent from the Black Diaspora,” EBONY, 2022
“The Artful Life: 5 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week,” Stefanie Li, Galerie, 2022
“An Artist’s Reimagining of Immigrant Identity,” Gisela Williams, T-List, 2022
“The Class of 2022: Meet 6 Fast-Rising Artists Having Star Turns at This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach,” Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, Artnet, 2022
“Didier William Imagines the Complexities, Fears, and Joys of Parenthood,” Ryan Waddoups, Surface Magazine, 2022
“Didier William Is Using His Art to Offer Black, Queer Immigrants Hope,” Francesca Aton, ARTnews, 2022
“From working at the dollar store to exhibiting at the museum next door: artist Didier William returns to Miami,” Benjamin Stutton, The Art Newspaper, 2022
“Haitian art and artists during Miami Art Week, in photos,” Ashley Miznazi, The Haitian Times, 2022
“NOU LA Didier William’s Spaciousness,” Gina Athena Ulysse, Sugarcane Magazine, 2022
“Where to see Haitian artwork around Miami as Art Basel kicks off,” Ashley Miznazi, The Haitian Times, 2022
“‘10’ – A Powerful Exhibition of Cutting-Edge Artists Examining the Ways in Which the Body is Understood During a Transformative Period in History,” FAD Magazine, 2021
“22 Artists to Discover at New York’s September Fairs,” Artsy, 2021
American Short Fiction, vol. 24, no. 74, 2021. Fall 2021. (cover,) 2021
“Art Fairs Come Blazing Back, Precarious but Defiant,” New York Times, 2021
“Didier William,” monograph, James Fuentes Press, New York, NY, 2021
“Didier William’s ‘Siklon Sizzles With Stormy Energy,” KQED, 2021
“Seeing the Armory Art Fair as a Chance to Reconnect,” Hyperallergic, 2021
“SPOTLIGHT: Victoria Miro x OUT Collective,” Artforum, 2021
“Tarry with Me: Reclaiming Sweetness in an Anti-Black World,” Oxford American, 2021
“Terreurs De Frontière: Le Massacre Des Haïtiens En République Dominicaine En 1937,” Les Publications Du Centre Challenges, 2021
“20 Artists on the Work They Made in 2020,” Artsy, 2020
“Artfizz X Blum And Poe Auction Powerful Protest Signs For #SayHerName Mothers Network,” TheArtGoregous, 2020
“Didier William,” Art Papers, 2020
“Didier William: Lakou,” exhibition catalogue, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA, 2020
“Editor’s Picks: Favorite Paintings Not to Miss During the Season Opening Shows, NYC,” Arte Fuse, 2020
“Pathogen Und Politik,” Lettre International, 2020
“Protest Signs by Artists and Celebrities Sold to Benefit Families of Black Women Killed by Police,” Hyperallergic, 2020
“Temporal Cartographies: Interview with L. Kasimu Harris, Edra Soto & Didier William.” State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2020
“The New York Review: Mourning In Place,” The New York Review, 2020
“12 Artists of the Caribbean and its Diaspora Who are Shaping Contemporary Art,” Artsy, 2019
“A Caribbean Present Steeped in a Colonial Past", Hyperallergic, 2019
“A Fresh Direction for Printmaking", Hyperallergic, 2019
“Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox,” Museum of the African Diaspora, 2019
“Didier William”, McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, 2019
“Embody”, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, 2019.
“In Didier William’s Art, There Is More Than Meets the Eye,” New York Times, 2019
“Didier William.” Galerie Magazine, 2019
“What Stuck at Art Basel Miami Beach,” Ricardo Mor, Cultured Magazine, 2019
“Best of 2018: Our top 20 NYC Art Shows", Hyperallergic, 2018
“Didier William,” Art in America, 2018
“Didier William on Painting a Revolution,” Hyperallergic, 2018
“Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders,” Duke University Press, 2018
“How to Envision the Revolution,” Hyperallergic, 2018
“Swarm: Gravity. Friction. Layers.” Ubikwist, 2018
“What to see in New York Galleries,” New York Times, 2018
“A Haitian Artists Meserizing Eyes,” Hyperallergic, 2017
“Coloneobaroque: Didier William at Tiger Strikes Asteroid,” artcritical, 2017
“Didier William: The Unblinking Eye,” Two Coats of Paint, 2017
“Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, “ Museum of Latin American Art, 2017
“What To See In New York Galleries: Didier William,” New York Times, 2017
Napier, Laura, and Hatuey Ramos-Fermin. Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial. Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2015
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," ArtPractical, 2015
"Painting Lives: Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape, at Spaceshifter," The Huffington Post, 2012
SELECTED PODCASTS/VIDEOS
“Didier William and Charles Schultz, with Ugochi Egonu,” Brooklyn Rail, 2023
“Episode 362/Didier William,” Sound & Vision Podcast, 2023
“Episode 58: Didier William,” The Amy Beecher Show, 2022
"Didier William: Studio Visit" Painter's Table,” Gorky’s Grandaughter, 2014
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Expanded Print, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (2019-Present)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Chair of the MFA Program (2016-2019)
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Design, Visiting Critic (2018)
Columbia University, School of the Arts, Graduate Critic (2015)
Vassar College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Drawing and Printmaking, (2010-2016)
Yale University School of Art, Lecturer/Critic, Printmaking Seminar and Grad Core Critic, (2013)
Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Residential Faculty, Experimental Printmaking and Studio Critic, (2011-2015)
SUNY Purchase School of art and design, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2D Processes, Basic Drawing, Figure Drawing, (2012-2014)