BRITTNEY LEEANNE WILLIAMS (b. 1990, Pasadena, USA, lives and works in Chicago, IL) takes the body as the main subject of her pictorial investigations. Her works depict figures in transformation, bodies oddly twisted and shaped, human- like shapes that are subject to unseen pressures or forces that lie beyond the edge of the canvas. At her young age, Brittney Leeanne Williams has been the recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and Luminarts Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale as well as multiple exhibitions in NewYork,LosAngeles,Miami and Hong Kong.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2021 / (Upcoming) Alexander Berggruen, New York NY, USA
2020 / (Upcoming) Mamoth, London UK
2019 / To Tarry in Prayer/To Terri in Prayer, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles CA, USA
2017 / Neither Free | Nor, Dittmar Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA 2016 / It Can See You, HUME Gallery, Chicago IL, USA
AWARDS | FELLOWSHIPS
2020 / Luminarts Fellow
2020 / Coney Family Fund Award
2019 / McColl Center for Art + Innovation Artist-in-Residence, Charlotte NC, USA
2018 / Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2017 - 2018 / Arts + Public Life Residency (University of Chicago CSRPC), Chicago IL, USA
2017 - 2018 / The Center Program Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL, USA