Jeff Williams

Jeff Williams
660.3 ̊C, 2013
aluminum I-beam, Plexiglas base
44 x 12 x 4-5/8 inches

Jeff Williams
Cibolo Creek, 2013
fossils, steel, torch
19 x 47 x 28 inches 

Jeff Williams
#13, 2013
aluminum, steel, gallium, wine glass
52 x 26 x 7 inches

Jeff Williams
Cold Rolled Crush, 2015
cold-rolled steel, mild steel, hardware
48 x 72 x 32 inches

Jeff Williams
Untitled, 2015
aluminim foam, nylon fiber
6-1/2 x 13 x 1-1/2 inches 

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Born 1976 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lives and works in Austin, Texas and Brooklyn, New York

Education
2001         
MFA, Syracuse University
1998   
BFA, Columbus College of Art and Design

Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2014
• New / Used / Wet / Broken, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2013
• New / Used / Wet / Broken, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York
• For an Abstracion: Christopher Culver & Jeff Williams, Co-Lab, Austin, Texas
2012    
• 11 week interval (glycerin drip/ supernatant fossil/ building extraction), Texas Prize, AMOA-  Arthouse, Austin, Texas
• 9 week interval (Al/Bi/C/Ga/Fe/Na), Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio
2011
• Worn Thin, Recess Activities Inc., New York
• There is Not Anything That Returns To Nothing, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (curator Russell Ferguson)
2010
• Underlying Structures, Galeria Perdida, Chilchota, Michoacan, Mexico
• Dust Storm, Silicon Labs Inc., Cook and Ruud, Austin, Texas
2009
• Sunlight/Substratum, American Academy in Rome, Italy
2007 
• Thickly Settled, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX;; LAXART (LAXWINDOW), Los Angeles (curator Aram Moshayedi)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
• Troy Brauntuch, Andy Coolquitt, Jeff Williams, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013
• October 18, 1977, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc, New York
• Weird Science, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
2012  
• Hot Time Tub Machine, Canada, New York
• EAF 12, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
• Heat Island, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
• Festival of Ideas for a New City, New York
• Black Sunday, Saint Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, New York
• Synthetic Supports: Plastic is the New Paper, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
2010
• Future 86, Catskills, New York
2009
• La Gioia, Palace of Exhibitions, Rome, Italy
• Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy
• ROMA, The Road to Contemporary Art 2, Hadrian’s Temple, Rome, Italy
• Lo Sguardo Di Giano, American Academy in Rome, Italy (curator Francesco Stocchi)
2008
• Round 28: Otherwise Constricted, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas
• Nothing at The End of the Lane, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Core Artist-in-Residence, Core Program, Glassell School, Houston, Texas
• Houston Area Exhibition, Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, Texas
• Outpost, CTRL, Houston, Texas
2007
• One Day I will Control the Sun, Arsenal Gallery, New York
• Core Artist-in-Residence, Core Program, Glassell School, MFA Houston, Texas
2006
• New American Talent 21, Arthouse, Austin, Texas (juror Aimee Chang)
• The Beginning of the End of the Beginning, Bucket Rider, Chicago

Residencies
2015
• Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2011
• Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
• Recess Activities, Inc., New York
2010
• Galerie Perdida, Chilchota, Michoacan Mexico
2006-08
• Core Program, Museum of Fine Art Houston, Texas

Fellowships
2012
• Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York
2008-09
• American Academy in Rome, The Leonore Annenberg Foundation

Awards
2012
• Texas Prize, AMOA-Arthouse, Austin, Texas