Kiyan Williams is a visual artist based in New York City. Their work has been exhibited across the country and internationally at: Peres Projects (Milan), Peres Projects (Seoul), Altman Siegel (San Francisco), The Hirshhorn (Washington D.C.), Lyles and King (New York), SculptureCenter (New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), MIT Vera List Center (Cambridge), and The Shed (New York). Their debut institutional solo exhibition, Between Starshine and Clay, was presented at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in 2022. In 2022 they presented their first public art work in New York City commissioned by Public Art Fund in the group exhibition Black Atlantic. Williams’ latest sculptural installation is on view in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing, curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli.
Williams’ work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, The New York Times: T Magazine, ArtNews, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, émergent magazine, Mousse Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Their They were recently profiled by The New York Times and Cultured Magazine. Williams is the recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Graham Foundation Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. They have been awarded residencies at Smack Mellon, BTFA; and was a fellow in EmergeNYC. Williams earned a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University.
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