Emmett Williams

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-à-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