Emmett Williams
born 1925 Greenville, South Carolina, USA
died 2007 Berlin, Germany
Education
1947-1949 Kenyon College (BA), Ohio, USA
For more detailed information on Emmett Williams, please visit his official website www.emmett-williams.com
Selected exhibitions
2016 Emmett Williams. Projects with Ay-O and Yo-Yo Ma, Barbara Wien, Berlin
2015 Tribute to Emmett Williams, Galeria AT, Poznan
2011 Self-Portraits and Dedications, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zurich
2008 Ein Berliner Amerikaner, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte / Keshner Pro Arte, Hannover
Hommage an Emmett Williams, Atrium - museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam
2007 A Life in Flux - and Vice Versa, Werke von 1958 - 2007, Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich
FLUXZEUGBILDER, BSM Excursion, art+life shop, Potsdam
2006 Lichtskulpturen, Emerson Gallery, Berlin
2005 Kunstfibeln & Fluxfabeln, Kunstpunkt Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Hommage à Emmett Williams, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Art in Flux & Vice Versa, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan
2004 Ich bin ein... was?, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Recyclings, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zürich
2002 Story Lines, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
2000 Neue Arbeiten, Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Zürich
Märchenstundengebilde, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1999 POPOPOESIE, Wiens Laden & Verlag, Berlin
1998 Kunstfibel, Art Forum Berlin with Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei, Berlin
1997 Belgian Portaits, Mum’s Tattoo, Antwerp
Fresh Impressionism, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
Emmett Williams online, Virtualitas: Fine Arts Online, the First Real Virtual Gallery, www.VIRTUALIS.COM, Berlin
1996 New Works, Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich
Hannah Hoech Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
1995 Little Men Looking Around, Sarenco Club Art Gallery, Verona
1994 New Paintings, Galerie beim Steinernen Kreuz, Bremen
Portraits, Fine Art, Berlin
1993 New Works, Fukui-Sinbun Gallery, Fukui (Japan)
Portraits 1992, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
1992 African Fiesta and Malindi Concrete Poems, Kenya, Malindi Art Gallery, Malindi
Sand Paintings, Kenya, Artificio & Artefatto Gallery, Malindi
Portraits, Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden
1991 Fiesta Africana + Undici Poemi Concreti de Malindi, Domus Jani: Istituto Internazionale per L’Arte Totale, Illasi
Twenty-one Proposals for the Stained-Glass Windows of the Fluxus Cathedral, Galerie Zielke, Berlin
Word Games - retrospective exhibition of print works, Artists’ Museum, Lodz
1990Emmett Williams à Québec, Le Lieu: Centre en art actuel, Québec
Jigazo (Self-portraits) Fukui-Sinbun Gallery, Fukui (Japan)
Flux Post und Post Flux, Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich
1989 Multiples, Centre de Gravure Contemporaine, Geneva
1987 Prints & Collages, Kunstverein, Friedrichshafen
Light Sculptures in Colour, Cultural Center, Ono, Japan (Fukui Pref.)
Works of Emmett Williams in the Ay-O Collection, Machida-shi Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
1986 ABC etc. lub ABC itd. lub..., Galeria Akumulatory II, Poznan
Poems on Canvas, Galeria Riviera Remont, Warsaw
Tête-Ã -tête, Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich
Painting & Collages, Wewerka Gallery, Hannover
1985 Fiesta!, Petersen Galerie, Berlin
1984 Metamorphoses, Galeria Akumulatory, Poznan
Metamorphoses, Galeria Riviera Remont, Warsaw
1983 Books, Posters & Relics, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Collages, Galerie Donguy, Paris
Books, Prints and Posters, Buchhandlung König, Cologne
1982 Schemes & Variations, National Gallery, Berlin
1981 Impressions of Japan, Fukui
Schemes & Variations, Gemeente Museum, The Hague
Portrety i Podroze, Galeria Akumulatory, Poznan
Podroze i Portrety, Galeria Piwna, Warsaw
Sketches for "Kivik Smorgasbord", Galleri Leger, Malmö
1980 Generations and Continuities, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1979 Graphic Portraits, Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga, Amsterdam
Letters to Ay-O, Staatsgaleri, Stuttgart
1978 Serial Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings, The John and Norah Warbecke Gallery, Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts),
Letters to Ay-O, Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga, Amsterdam
1977 Horoscope, Print Gallery, Tokyo
Anti-Portrait Paintings, Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo
1975 Books and Lithographs, Thumb Gallery, London
1973 Variations Upon a Spoerri Landscape, Galerie Inge Baecker, Bochum
1969 Black Light Poems on Canvas, University of Kentucky (Lexington)
Open Studios, IASPIS, Stockholm
Protections (curated by Adam Budak), Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Jump Into Cold Water (curated by Katarina Schlieben, Sønke Gau), Shedhalle, Zürich
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
For more detailed information on Emmett Williams, please visit his official website www.emmett-williams.com