Enid Williams
Greenville, SC 29615
www.enidwilliams.net
Education
1996
Kent State University, MFA
1992
University of Toledo, BA
1984
Tarleton State University, BA
Awards
2012
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2011
Metropolitan Arts Council Project Grant
2007
Metropolitan Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
2002
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
2000
Columbus Museum of Art, Purchase Award
The Hall Memorial Award of Painting, Ohio Art League
1997
Carnegie Museum of Art, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Milono Painting Award
Exhibitions
(* designates solo and two-person exhibitions)
2021
*Time Sensitive, Sift Gallery, Greenville, SC
2020
*Perfectly Familiar/Unrecognizably Strange, Lander University, Greenwood, SC
Upstairs Art Space, Tryon, NC
In Times Like These, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC
2019
*Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2018
United States Embassy Exhibition, Bern Switzerland
30th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, South Carolina State Museum, Lipscomb Gallery, Columbia, SC
2017
*Inquire Within, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC
* Enid Williams, Paintings and Monotypes, Lipscomb Gallery, SC Governor’s School
2016
Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Paper Products, if art Gallery, Columbia, SC
2015
South Carolina Biennial, 701Contemporary Center, Columbia, SC
*Ecolalia, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College, Demorest, GA
2014
Building a Universe, South Carolina State Museum
*Systematic Chance, if art Gallery, Columbia, SC
2013
*Random Methodologies, RiverWorks Gallery, Greenville, SC
2012
*By Turns, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC
Abstract Art in South Carolina: 1949 – 2012, South Carolina State Museum
Contemporary Carolina II, IF Art Gallery, Columbia, South Carolina
*Recent Works, Warehouse Theater, Greenville, SC
2011
Counter Point: Form and Space, Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
Artisphere Juried Exhibition, Center Stage Gallery, Greenville, SC
5th Annual South Carolina Art Teachers’ Invitational, Goodall Gallery, Columbia College, SC
2010
* Deposits and Withdrawals, Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, Greenville, SC
*Image Resource, Thompson Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
Pairs, Riverworks Gallery, Greenville Technical College, Greenville, SC
2009
Sightings, New Faces from Asheville and Greenville, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
Metropolitan Arts Council: Open Studios, Greenville, SC
A Square Deal, Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, Greenville, SC
2008
Marji Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM
Enid Williams / Paul Yanko / Monika Steiner, Marji Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Pleased to Meet You, Contemporary Art Forum, Greenville, SC
Ten Years After: An Exhibition of Prints, Greenville County Museum, SC
2007
Columbia State Museum Annual Juried Exhibition, Columbia, SC
Color Reflex, Artizen Fine Arts, Dallas TX
7 x 7, Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, Greenville, SC
What’s Your Body Image, Lee Hall Art Gallery, Clemson University, SC
Upstate Visual Arts Group Show, Upstate Visual Arts Gallery, Greenville, SC
*Enid Williams/Paul Yanko: Recent Works, Thrift Gallery, Anderson University SC
2006
* Paintings and Works on Paper, Curtis R. Harley Gallery, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
2005
*Enid Williams/ Paul Yanko: Paintings from a Marriage, Raw & Co., Cleveland, OH
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Volume 10, No. 3
2004
Consider Argyle, Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC
Domestic Setting – the sequel, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003
*Enid Williams / Enid Baxter Blader, Superior Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Artist-in-Residence: 10 x 10, Zygote Press, Cleveland OH
Eight Hour Drawings VI, Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
Domestic Setting: Sequel, Los Angeles, CA
2002
*Paintings and Works on Paper, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH
2001
Look: Paint, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Dancing the Orange: McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Accumulations, Curated by Martin Ball, Kent State University, OH
Asterisk Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Tremont, OH
99 and Under, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
*Associated Artists Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2000
*Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Art League Juried Annual, Columbus, OH
1999
*Kent State University, Stark Campus, Canton, OH
*Enid Williams and Paul Yanko, Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
1998
88th Annual Carnegie Museum of Art and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, PA
1997
Despite the Odds, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1997
87th Annual Carnegie Museum of Art and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, PA
Summer Painting Invitational, Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1996
*Searching the Grid, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH
Trumbull Art Gallery Annual Exhibition: Warren, OH
1995
Butler Institute of American Art Juried Annual Exhibition, Youngstown, OH
Toledo Museum of Art Juried Annual Exhibition, Toledo, OH (catalog)
Publications/Press
2017
Circular Logic, Town Magazine, M. Linda Lee, November
2015
The Aesthetics of Identity: Art and Individuality, Frank C. Martin II, Catalog essay, South Carolina Biennial, 2015
2014
Wim Roefs, Systematic Chance, Catalog essay, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2012
AB FAB, Jeffrey Day, artsee, Mar / Apr
Abstract Art in South Carolina, 1949 – 2012, Catalog essay
2010
Arts Interview, Cindy Landrum, Greenville Journal
2007
Seventh Heaven, Review, Melissa Blanton, Greenville Journal
Seven and Seven Is…,James Shannon, The Beat, August, P. 17
Artists take bold stroke with 7×7, Ann Hicks, Greenville, News
Four Painters, Interview by Michael Woody, Deep Magazine, September
2006
Artists Live Their Work, Interview, Greenville News, City People
2005
Paintings from a Marriage, Review, Ellen Rudolph, Angle Magazine September
2003
Sequel at Domestic Setting, Review, Kristina Newhouse, Artnet.com, April 17
2002
Accumulations, Review, Douglas Max Utter, New Art Examiner, March
The Shape of Things to Come, Review, Dan Tranberg, Cleveland Free Times, April
Dancing the Orange, Catalog essay, Douglas Max Utter
Radio Interview, 90.3 WCPN Cleveland, host Dee Perry
2001
Abstract Painters Make Medium Their Own, Review, Dan Tranberg, Cleveland Plain
Dealer, Monday November 26
Accumulations Showing, Review, Rachel Fichter, Daily Kent Stater, February 14
Strong Showing of Abstract Art, Steven Litt, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sunday, July, 27
Life Lines, Review, Sharmila Venkatasubban, In Pittsburgh Weekly, February 14
Two Galleries Offer Vibrant Exhibits, Eve Modzelewski, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 25
2000
Ohio Artists, Review, Melissa Starker, Columbus Alive, August 10
2000
Annual Display, Review, Jacqueline Hall, Columbus Dispatch, September 10
Structured Works in Oil, Review, Dan Tranberg, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 19
Jury Duty, Review, Curtis Schieber, Dialogue, September/October
1997
Reaching In, Crying Out, Review, Steven Litt, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Friday, September 26
Wear Your Helmet: Making Art in the 90’s, Catalog Essay, Michael Loderstedt, Spaces: Despite the Odds
Shooting Stars, Review, Laura Putre, The Cleveland Free Times, September
Reveling in Paint, Review, Dan Tranberg, The Cleveland Free Times, July
Academic Experience
2010
Adjunct Instructor, Furman University, SC; Drawing I
2004 – present
Assistant Professor, Greenville Technical College, SC; Painting I, II, Printmaking, 2-d Design, Drawing I, II
2001 – 2004
Term Assistant Professor, Kent State University; Drawing I, II, III, Painting I,II
1998 – 2004
Adjunct Instructor, Youngstown State University; Painting I, Intermediate, Advanced Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design
2000 – 2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Akron; Intro to Painting, Drawing I, II, Two-Dimensional Design
1999 – 2000
Adjunct Instructor, University of Akron; Drawing I, Two-Dimensional Design
Collections
1
The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC
Morris Museum of Art – King Snake Press Collection, Augusta, GA
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Contemporary Carolina Collection, Ashley River Tower, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston
Ballentine Library, Irmo, SC
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Projects
1
Textile design for Richland County Public Library Main, Columbia, SC; Margaret Sullivan Studio, NY and Milliken Industries, Spartanburg, SC, 2015
Lectures/Gallery Talks
2015
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College
2014
State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2012
Hampton III, Greenville, SC
2011
Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
2009
Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2007
Anderson University, Anderson, SC
Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, Greenville, SC
2006
Greenville County Museum of Art, Artists Talk, Greenville, SC
University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
2003
Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
2002
McDonough Museum of Art, Panelist, Youngstown, OH