SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022 Video Viewing Room: Abbey Williams, The Kitchen (Online), New York, NY.2021 Abbey Williams, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA.2021 Vignette, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY.2020 Abbey Williams x Black Mamas Matter, Sargent's Daughters (Online), New York, NY.2017 Project Room, Skibum MacArthur, LA, CA.2009 (STILL), Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY.2007 Project Room, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY.2006 present company excluded, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.2003 Moon in Gemini, Foxy Production, New York, NY.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS 2024The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, GermanyThe Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.2023Quartet (or, a Basket of Roses), Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland ME.
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD.The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, St. Louis Art Musuem, St. Louis MO.Video Store, Foxy Production, New York, NY.2019 The Artifact Labyrinth: Unfixed histories and the language of transformation, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy.NYC Feminist Film Week 2019: OBJECT/SUBJECT, Anthology Film Archives, NY.2018 Seven Senses, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NYMickey Mouse Has Grown-up a Cow, University of Albany Museum of Art, Albany, NYSeveral Years Have Passed, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY.2017 Loss for Words (Program curated by Max Warsh), BAM, Brooklyn, NY.Garden Dwellers, Regina Rex, New York, NY.2016 Leaden Hearts (curated by Lisi Raskin), Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy.2015 Tenderness (curated by Alex Jovanovich), Transborder Arts broadcast on public access cable, NY.2014 this might not be for now (curated by Skowhegan Alliance) (traveling program)-Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY. -Public Fiction, LA, CA.2012 Separation Anxiety, Pelham Arts Center, New York, NY.2011 Joni Mitchell (curated by Chris Bogia), Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY.2010 Separation Anxiety, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA.The Three Graces (Solo), Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN.2009 Video Studio: Muted–, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.Shapeshifter (curated by Michelle Handelman) (traveling program)-Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY.-MassArt Film Society, Boston, MA.Mother/mother, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.2008 Bare Walls No Boundaries, The Amistad Center at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Hartford, CT.Amerika: Werkleitz Festival 2008, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany.2007 Videos selected by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, The Hammer Museum, LA, CA.NADA Fair with Bellwether Gallery, Miami, FL.Video_Dumbo 2007 (curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy), d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY. Curious Green (curated by Josh Kline), Circus Gallery, LA, CA. The Line of Time and The Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman Gallery & Wallspace, New York, NY.Dear Mosquito of My Heart (curated by Danna Taggar), The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.2006 Video_Dumbo 2006 (curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy), d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY.Action Adventure, C A N A D A, New York, NY.When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY. Sex and Sadness, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey. Exploding Television - Satellite of Love, Rotterdam International Film Festival and The Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.2005 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, LIC, Queens, NY.Musica, Video Musica (curated by Bob Nickas), Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain.Frisbee arts collective, The Cavalier Hotel, Miami Beach, FL. A-TV, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY. Float (by invitation of Sabrina Gschwandtner), Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, Queens, NY.Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY. The kids have ADD, The Wizard Electroland, Brooklyn, NY. Frisbee arts collective: Official VIP project of the Armory Art Show, Old Chelsea YMCA, New York, NY. Video 2005, Art in General, New York, NY. Metropolis (traveling program)-Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.-National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.2004 3 Point Perspective (curated by Kendra Gaeta), 2004 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.New video work by the 2004 residents of Skowhegan, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY. Skowhegan Projects, Maine State Fair, Skowhegan, ME. These Millions, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 2nd Annual DC Underground Film Festival at the Carnegie Institute, Washington D.C. From New York with Love (curated by Trong G. Nguyen), Covivant Gallery, Tampa, FL. She’s about to wake up (curated by Diego Singh + Jose-Carlos Diaz), Lightbox/Miami Light Project, Miami, FL. 2004 11th Annual New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY.cont. You can’t do that on Television (curated by Ed Halter) (traveling program)-Cinematheque, Ontario, Canada. -Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX. -MassArt, Boston, MA.2003 Hovering (curated by Daniele Balice and Anne Du Boucheron), Peres Projects, LA, CA.Blinky 1 & 2, Tate Britain, London, UK.Look Out, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI. Enchante: MFA Thesis Exhibition, UBS Exhibition Space, Red Hook, NY. City Zooms Festival, Bremen, Germany. Transference (curated by Jeanine Oleson) (traveling program)-Art In General, New York, NY.-Moscow, Russia. VideoEx: International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland. The Dialogue No.3, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY. 25 Hours: Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Barcelona, Spain.The Stray Show (with Foxy Productions), Chicago, IL. 10th Annual New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY. What are you growing in your garden?, ATM Gallery, New York, NY. 5th Annual Video Marathon, Art In General, New York, NY. Video Store, Foxy Production, Brooklyn, NY.
PRESS Hyperallergic, Through Video and Collage, Abbey Williams Inverts the Paradigm of White Hegemony by Justin Kamp, March 30, 2021.The New York Times, 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens, By WILL HEINRICH, APRIL 26, 2018.Artforum.com, New York: Critics Picks, Several Years Have Passed by Nicole Kaak, April 13, 2018.The Brooklyn Rail, ArtSeen: Garden Dwellers by Alexandra Hammond, July 14, 2017.Time Out New York, Review: Joni Mitchell by Joseph R. Wolin, January 28, 2011.The New Yorker, Goings on about town: Art; Galleries: Chelsea: Dana Frankfort/Abbey Williams, October 1, 2007.Studio: The Studio Museum of Harlem Magazine, Studio Visit: Abbey Williams by Rujeko Hockley, Fall 2006Artcritical.com, Greater New York by Vincent Katz, July 2005.The Age (Arts section of The Sydney Morning Herald), Metropolis by Robert Nelson, February 2, 2005.Tampa Tribune, From New York with Love, 2004.PAJ: A journal of performance and art, The second time around: New festivals, special programs by Larry Qualls, Vol.26 No. 1, January 2004.The Village Voice, The Year in Experimental Film and Video by Ed Halter, December 24 - 30, 2003.Flash Art, Hovering at Peres Projects by Anne Martens, November-December 2003.Metro Times Detroit, Sunny, with a chance of art by Glen Mannisto, July 2-8, 2003.Wburg.com, In a good groove by Paul Laster, Vol. 3 No. 3 Spring 2003.The Village Voice, Even Children Get Older: A Question of Time (review of The 10th Annual New York Underground Film Festival) by Nick Rutigliano, March 5 - 11, 2003.Flavorpill.com, What are you growing in your garden? By “SC”, Issue #142, February 25, 2003.M: The New York Art World, Video Store by Peter Lasell, February 2003.
CATALOGS The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Gregory R Miller & Co., the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.The Artifact Labyrinth: Unfixed histories and the language of transformation, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy, 2019.Amerika: Werkleitz Festival 2008, Werkleitz Gesellschaft, Halle, Germany, 2008. Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, 2005.Metropolis, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, 2004-2005. 25 Hours: Muestra Internacional de Video Arte, Barcelona, 2003.
EDUCATION Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, 2004. MFA, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2003. BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York, 1993.
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPSSurfpoint, York, ME, 2025 . Interlude Artist Residency, Hudson Vallery, NY, 2024.EFA Shift Residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2017-2018.