Enid Williams
Greenville, SC 29615
www.enidwilliams.net
Education
1996
1992
1984
Kent State University, MFA
University of Toledo, BA
Tarleton State University, BA
Awards
2012
2011
2007
2002
2000
2000
1997
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Metropolitan Arts Council Project Grant
Metropolitan Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship
Columbus Museum of Art, Purchase Award
The Hall Memorial Award of Painting, Ohio Art League
Carnegie Museum of Art
Exhibitions
(solo and two-person exhibitions designated by asterisk)
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*Time Sensitive, Sift Gallery, Greenville, SC
*Perfectly Familiar/Unrecognizably Strange, Lander University, Greenwood, SC
Upstairs Art Space, Tryon, NC
In Times Like These, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC2019 *Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
*Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
United States Embassy Exhibition, Bern Switzerland
30th Anniversary Juried Exhibition, South Carolina State Museum, Lipscomb Gallery, Columbia, SC
*Inquire Within, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC
*Enid Williams, Paintings and Monotypes, Lipscomb Gallery, SC Governor’s School
Ann Connelly Fine Art, Baton Rouge, LA
Paper Products, if art Gallery, Columbia, SC
South Carolina Biennial, 701Contemporary Center, Columbia, SC
*Ecolalia, Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College, Demorest, GA
Building a Universe, South Carolina State Museum
*Systematic Chance, if art Gallery, Columbia, SC
*Random Methodologies, RiverWorks Gallery, Greenville, SC
*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
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
*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
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
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
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
*Paintings and Works on Paper, Curtis R. Harley Gallery, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
*Enid Williams/ Paul Yanko: Paintings from a Marriage, Raw & Co., Cleveland, OH
New American Paintings, Exhibition in Print, Volume 10, No. 3
Consider Argyle, Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC
Domestic Setting – the sequel, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
*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
*Paintings and Works on Paper, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, OH
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
*Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Art League Juried Annual, Columbus, OH
*Kent State University, Stark Campus, Canton, OH
*Enid Williams and Paul Yanko, Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH
88th Annual Carnegie Museum of Art and Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, PA
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
*Searching the Grid, Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH
Trumbull Art Gallery Annual Exhibition: Warren, OH
Butler Institute of American Art Juried Annual Exhibition, Youngstown, OH
Toledo Museum of Art Juried Annual Exhibition, Toledo, OH (catalog)
Publications/Press
2017
2015
2014
2012
2010
2007
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1997
Circular Logic, Town Magazine, M. Linda Lee, November
The Aesthetics of Identity: Art and Individuality, Frank C. Martin II, Catalog essay, South Carolina Biennial
Wim Roefs, Systematic Chance, Catalog essay, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
AB FAB, Jeffrey Day, artsee, Mar / Apr
Abstract Art in South Carolina, 1949 – 2012, Catalog essay
Arts Interview, Cindy Landrum, Greenville Journal
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
Artists Live Their Work, Interview, Greenville News, City People
Paintings from a Marriage, Review, Ellen Rudolph, Angle Magazine September
Sequel at Domestic Setting, Review, Kristina Newhouse, Artnet.com, April 17
Accumulations, Review, Douglas Max Utter, New Art Examiner, March
The Shape of Things to Come, Review, Dan Tranberg, Cleveland Free Times, April
Radio Interview, 90.3 WCPN Cleveland, host Dee Perry
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
Ohio Artists, Review, Melissa Starker, Columbus Alive, August 1
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
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
2004 -present
2001 – 2004
1998 – 2004
2000 – 2001
1999 – 2000
Adjunct Instructor, Furman University, SC; Drawing I
Assistant Professor, Greenville Technical College, SC;
Painting I, II, Printmaking, 2-d Design, Drawing I, II
Term Assistant Professor, Kent State University; Drawing I, II, III, Painting I, II
Adjunct Instructor, Youngstown State University; Painting I, Intermediate, Advanced Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Akron; Intro to Painting, Drawing I, II, Two-Dimensional Design
Adjunct Instructor, University of Akron; Drawing I, Two-Dimensional Design
Collections
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
2015
Textile design for Richland County Public Library Main, Columbia, SC; Margaret Sullivan Studio, NY and Milliken Industries, Spartanburg, SC
Lectures/Gallery Talks
2015
2014
2012
2011
2009
2007
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2002
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Piedmont College
State Museum of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Hampton III, Greenville, SC
Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
Anderson University, Anderson, SC
Metropolitan Arts Council Gallery, Greenville, SC
Greenville County Museum of Art, Artists Talk, Greenville, SC
University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
Megahan Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
McDonough Museum of Art, Panelist, Youngstown, OH