Sandy Williams IV is an artist and educator currently based in Richmond, VA. Their work is about the persistence of memory, the body, and resistance, tasking audiences with agency, in order to generate both public and private opportunities for collaborative engagement. Williams primarily works in sculpture, film, text and public performance. Williams is a recipient of the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship, the VMFA Artist Fellowship, and was a resident at Atlantic Center for the Arts, SOMA (CDMX), ACRE (Chicago), amongst other residencies. They have exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond; NADA House (NYC); De Boer Gallery (LA); Springsteen Gallery (Baltimore), New Release (NYC). Solo shows at Reynolds Gallery (Richmond) and Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville).
sandywilliamsiv@gmail.com