Christopher Williams (artist)

Christopher Williams (artist)

Christopher Williams (born 1956, Los Angeles) is an American conceptual artist and fine art photographer.[1] He is represented by David Zwirner, New York.

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Academic career

Williams graduated from Grinnell College. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he studied at the California Institute of the Arts under the first generation of West Coast conceptual artists including John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler. Since October 2008 he has been a Professor in Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions

In 2000, at an exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, in New York, Williams showed twenty photographs including a series of pictures of a 1964 Renault automobile on its side. Writing in the New York Times Ken Johnson said, "the Renault was made in a French factory where significant revolutionary activities took place in 1968; hence it is tipped up like a barricade."[2]

Working practice

Writing in Artforum in 2007, Tim Griffin described Williams's approach as "sociophotographic."[3] It has been said that Williams works within the tradition of institutional critique within what Sven Lütticken describes as an informal group, along with Willem de Rooij, Jeroen de Rijke and Mathias Poledna, that investigates the "parameters of the exhibition space."[4]

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