REVIEWS
Artist Sandy Williams asks what makes a monument | SF Examiner | Artist | 2024 |
Dawoud Bey: Elegy | CAA.reviews | Author | 2024 |
PRESS
Authors and Architects Roanoke College Memorial | Q+A with Artist Sandy William IV | Creative Time | 2025 |
The Shed Calls on Artists to Think Big | FRIEZE Magazine | 2025 |
Roanoke College honors enslaved laborers' role in its history with sculpture | Richmond Times-Dispatch | 2025 |
Roanoke College Dedicates “Authors and Architects” Memorial to Enslaved Laborers | The Roanoker | 2025 |
New York art exhibitions to see in March | Wallpaper* | 2025 |
A Wax Statue of Lincoln Melted Into a Meme | The New York Times | 2024 |
Abe Lincoln wax sculpture melts in brutal DC heat | BBC | 2024 |
Scorching Heat Wave Turns Lincoln Wax Statue Into a Hot Mess | Hyperallergic | 2024 |
Abraham Lincoln Has Melted | New York Magazine | 2024 |
A wax sculpture of Abe Lincoln was no match for D.C.’s punishing heat | Washington Post | 2024 |
Video shows wax Lincoln sculpture melted after 'wild heat' hits DC | USA Today | 2024 |
Sandy Williams uncovers the rich narratives of Black and Indigenous communities | FRED.fm | 2024 |
The Shed’s Open Call 2023 Group Exhibition, NYC (Review) | ARTEFUSE | 2023 |
Between Artists: Cathy Lin Che, Christopher Radcliff, & Sandy Williams IV | The Shed | 2023 |
I Am Sandy Williams IV | The Shed | 2023 |
Strengthening the Statue of Liberty | Richmond Magazine | 2023 |
University of Richmond Professor… | Newsroom University of Richmond | 2023 |
Art professor traces history in the New York sky | UR Now | 2023 |
Richmond’s Last Confederate Statue Comes Down | Hyperallergic | 2022 |
Assembly 2022 | The Washington Post | 2022 |
Contemporary Exhibition Inspired by the Sacred Leaves One Changed | the Offing | 2022 |
Eyes up: Sculpture professor uses the sky as a canvas | URNow | 2022 |
Baltimore's Best Art Exhibits of 2021 | BmoreArt | 2021 |
Sandy Williams IV and Monsieur Zohore at Springsteen | Art Viewer | 2021 |
Questions of Faith in Art, self and religion |San Francisco Examiner | 2021 |
More Than a Candle: Sandy Williams IV’s Wax Monuments | RVA Mag | 2020 |
Sandy Williams IV: A reimagining of our shared history | The Williams Record | 2020 |
In the Studio: Sandy Williams IV | Reynolds Gallery | 2020 |
From the archives: Sandy Williams IV | OSMOS Online | 2019 |
How cleaning a statue became alums most provocative performance | VCUarts | 2019 |
BIO
Sandy Williams IV makes work about time:
monuments, sculptures, films, and poems. Raised in the US south, their methodical creative practice demystifies the complexities of abstract time through the lens of a Black radical imagination. Their iterative projects blend moments of communal catharsis with live, shared, experiences to highlight the layers of historical presence that structure our everyday lives.
Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Richmond.
Recipient of the 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship. Featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and BBC. Permanent installations at Roanoke College and the University of Richmond. Artist-in-Residence at McDowell, MASS MoCA, Atlantic Center for the Arts, SOMA, ACRE, and the University of Cumbria. Exhibitions at MOCA Virginia Beach, Arlington MOCA, The Harnett Museum, ICA VCU, The Shed, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Grounds For Sculpture.
“My mother is an amazing cook, and when I think about all the meals that she made for our family over the years, I mostly remember how loved they made me feel. Through my family, especially my mother, I was introduced to making as an act of care. I want my art to hold people and our stories like my mother’s food.”