MICHAEL KELLY WILLIAMS

2018 EFA Blackburn Legacy Publication Fellowship

Michael Kelly Williams was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, to American parents on March 8, 1950. His art practice consists of sculpture, fine art prints, and works on paper. He is inspired by music, poetry, literature, nature, mythology and love. He draws heavily from the art of the ancients, folk art, and art of the African diaspora. Concepts that interest him are the spiritual in art, environmental concerns, equality and justice, hierarchies collapsing, irony, and surrealism. 

Williams graduated with a B.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Michigan. In 1979, he went on to study and teach in New York City at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, including developing his viscosity and collagraph technique with Krishna Reddy.

He was  an Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture  and graduated with an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Brooklyn College. His prints can be found in several museums and institutions, such as The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His prints have been exhibited in China, Morocco, Canada, India and Japan. He is the recipient of the first Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Legacy Publishing Fellowship at the Elizabeth Foundation in 2017 and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2018-19. His studio currently is located in upstate New York.

To inquire, email: rbpmw@efanyc.org

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