Robin F. Williams
ROBIN F. WILLIAMS
b. 1984, Columbus, OH
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2006 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Out Lookers, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Final Resting Face, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2019 With Pleasure, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Your Good Taste is Showing, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2016 Trailing Off, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA
2014 Sons of the Pioneers, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2011 Rescue Party, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2009 New Work, Space 414, Brooklyn, NY
2008 After Birth, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Applied Anxiety, Allouche Benias, Athens, Greece
Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Bitter Nest, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, NY
XENIA: Crossroads in Portrait Painting, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Post Analog Studio, The Hole, New York, NY
Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2018 SEED, curated by Yvonne Force, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
PLUS ONE, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2017 Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY
Separation Anxiety, Project: ARTspace, New York, NY
2016 Et in Arcadia Ego, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
The Woman Destroyed, curated by Anneliis Beadnell, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
Expo Chicago, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2015 The Earth is All I Know of Wonder: Contemporary Responses to Hartley, Driscoll Babcock, New York, NY
2014 Escape from New York! New Garde Now, Gallery Poulsen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2013 Skin Trade, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
2012 100 Little Deaths, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
Texas Contemporary, P·P·O·W, Houston, TX
EXPO Chicago, P·P·O·W, Chicago, IL
Seven, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL
RISD Icons, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2011 Pulse LA Art Fair, P·P·O·W, Los Angeles, CA
Suggestivism, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Seven, P·P·O·W, Miami, FL
2010 Marked: A Show of Figure, Like the Spice Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
Grand Central Art Center, New York, NY
2009 Vintage Violence, Space 414, Brooklyn, NY
American Dream, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Old School, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition, Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY
2008 Scope Miami, Jack the Pelican Presents, Miami, FL
Emerging Artists…at any age, L.A. Art House, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Scope Miami, Jack the Pelican Presents, Miami, FL
Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present, Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. Ltd., New York, NY
Scope Hamptons, Jack the Pelican Presents, Wainscott, NY
Fecal Face 7.5 Anniversary Show, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Fall Season, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Faction, Lineage Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 $760,000 Show, Senior Exhibition, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Senior Showcase, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
RISD Senior Illustration Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2005 RISD Athena Awards, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, New York, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2019 Artist in Residence, La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
2018 Visual Artist Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2012 Josephine Mercy Heathcote Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2011 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
2010 Brooklyn Academy of Music Spring “Playbill Artist,” Brooklyn, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
CC Foundation, Shanghai, China
Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
X Museum, Beijing, China
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Goldstein, Caroline. “Studio Visit: Painter Robin F. Williams on Her Newfound Fascination with TikTok and How She Sustains a Sense of Wonder at Work,” Artnet News, September 15, 2020.
Indrisek, Scott. “Robin F. Williams Revels in the Craft of Painting,” Artsy, March 27, 2020.
2019 Maziar, Paul. “Social Criticism, with Pleasure: Robin F. Williams at Various Small Fires,” October 3, 2019.
Liberty, Megan N. “Robin F. Williams: Model Behavior,” Juxtapoz, May 29, 2019.
2018 Langmuir, Molly. “Who’s Afraid of the Female Nude? Paintings of naked women, usually by
clothed men, are suddenly sitting very uncomfortably on gallery walls.” The Cut, April 18, 2018.
2017 Smith, Roberta. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week” The New York Times, November 1, 2017.
Deters, Alexandria. “In Conversation with Robin F. Williams: Using Provocation and Power in her Female-Focused Paintings” Gallery Girls, October 29, 2017.
2016 Molesky, David. “Robin F. Williams: The Hero Painter” Juxtapoz, July 18, 2016.
Frank, Priscilla. “Today’s Artists Are Sick of History Framing Women as Perfect” The Huffington Post, June 30, 2016.
Kugler, Alec. “Robin Williams’ All-Female ‘70s Inspired Artwork” Coveteur, December 3, 2016.
2014 Friedman, Julia. “Dreaming of Fluorescent Men,” Hyperallergic, March 5, 2014.
Valdez, Aldrin. “A New Sympathetic Masculine Mythology,” Art Slant, March 12, 2014.
”10 Hypnotic Paintings That Challenge Art’s Obsession with the Female Nude,” Huffington Post, February 28, 2014.
2013 “Robin Williams,” Naked but Safe, #3.
2011 Moore, Caitlin. Beautiful Decay, Book 6 The Future Project Issue.
Larkin, Corina. “Robin Williams, Rescue Party,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2011.
Heinrich, Will. “The Painting Looks at Us: Robin Williams’ First Solo Show”, The New York Observer Feb 1, 2011.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Creepy Toys and Awkward Kids”, The L Magazine, Feb 16, 2011.
Drumm, Perrin. “Robin Williams solo show at PPOW gallery”, SUNfiltered, February 8, 2011.