Sandy Williams IV
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I am an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and professor. My conceptual art practice studies the vernacular of time as it exists across cultural structures, personal experiences, and as a unit of measurement. My public art considers the contextual landscape of communal histories, socio-carceral constructs, and interpersonal relationships, and holds space for disenfranchised memories, participatory experiences and visualizes new frameworks for communal emancipation.

My art practice is ultimately concerned with cultivating love and empathy. My mom 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. I learned how to care through my parents and grandparents, but especially through my mother, and I want my art to hold people and their stories with that same love and care.

I hope that my work can conjure moments of reflection for people. I want to inspire a sense of catharsis that is communal and opens viewers up to perspectives they may not have otherwise considered. I see my artworks as conversation pieces, like portals or bridges, to thoughts, feelings, or histoires that are absent, intangible, or might only exist invisibly within the space.

BA - The University of Virginia

MFA - Virginia Commonwealth University, Sculpture + Extended Media

Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Richmond

Recipient of the 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship. Solo shows at Palo Gallery (NYC), 1708 Gallery (Richmond), the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Ontario), Roanoke College (Salem, VA), Telematic Arts (SF), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond), and Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville). Work featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and BBC. Collaborations: Creative Time, CulturalDC, Weeksville Heritage Center. Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances: The Museum of Contemporary Art in Virginia Beach, The Arlington Museum of Contemporary Art, The Harnett Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, The Shed (NYC), Socrates Sculpture Park (NYC), Grounds For Sculpture (NYC), Martos Gallery (NYC), M+B Gallery (LA), de boer Gallery (LA), Springsteen (Baltimore), NADA House (NYC). Artist in Residence at McDowell (NH), MASS MoCA (MA), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), SOMA (CDMX), ACRE (Chicago), and the University of Cumbria (UK).

sandywilliamsiv@gmail.com