Sue Williams
- Introduction
- Sue Williams is an American artist born in 1954. She came to prominence in the early 1980s, with works that echoed and argued with the dominant postmodern feminist aesthetic of the time. In the years since, her focus has never waned yet her aesthetic interests have moved toward abstraction along with her subject matter and memories. She lives and works in New York.
- Wikidata
- Q2363416
- Introduction
- Known for her graffiti-like pornographic paintings that seem abstract and delicate at a distance; they work more to destabilize accepted depictions of women rather than to titilate.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Name
- Sue Williams
- Ulan
- 500114754
Exhibitions
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Greater New York
Oct 11, 2015–Mar 7, 2016
MoMA PS1
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Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making
Mar 4–Jun 11, 2007
MoMA
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Defamation of Character
Oct 29, 2006–Jan 15, 2007
MoMA PS1
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Into Me/Out of Me
Jun 25–Sep 25, 2006
MoMA PS1
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Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now
Apr 5–Jun 5, 2001
MoMA
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Sue Williams has
6 exhibitionsonline.
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Sue Williams My Landlord 1992
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Sue Williams Highway to Heaven 1993
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Sue Williams Mom's Foot Blue and Orange 1997
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John Armleder, Jeff Koons, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Thomas Struth, Sue Williams, Toba Khedoori, Tacita Dean, Various Artists Parkett no. 50/51 1997
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Sue Williams Untitled (Edition for Parkett) (for Parkett no. 50/51) 1997
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Sue Williams Expanding 2002
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Sue Williams Excessive Digits 2003
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