RESUME

Elzie Williams III

b.1993

ew2703@columbia.edu

Education

2022 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY, Visual Arts, Sculpture
2015 BFA, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY 2011 Baltimore School For the Arts, Baltimore, MD

Awards and Grants
2020-2021 Lenfest Fellowship, Columbia University, NY
2020-2021 Solomon B. Hayden Fellowship , Columbia University, NY
2018- BOPA Lots Alive Public Sculpture Art Grant, Baltimore, MD
2015- Tam Prize for Excellence in Fine Art, Cooper Union, NY http://cooper.edu/art/news/senior-snapshots-2015-school-art
2015 - Ismar David Scholarship, Cooper Union, NY
2011 - National Young Art’s Competition, and one week seminar in Miami, FL

Solo Exhibitions
2023. M23, Politics As Usual , 24 Henry st, New York

Curated Projects
2023. Subtitled NYC, What A Fool Believes, 113 Franklin st, Brooklyn NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023. Thierry Goldberg Gallery , True Alchemy , 109 Norfolk st., New York, NY
M + B , MZ.25 (My Condolences), 612 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, California

School of Visual Arts (SVA), Curatorial Thesis Exhibition Transcending the Ideal: Reimagining Femininity and its Relationship to Power, curated by Virginia Ingram, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY

2022 Phillips New York , Arrangements In Black, 432 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Half Gallery , OTHERWISE (curated by Carlota Ortiz Monasterio, Ho Won Kim, Victoria Horrocks),

235 E 4th st, New York, NY

C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, SUPERMOON, 305 El Camino Drive, Beverly Hills, CA

C-L-E-A-R-I-N-G, ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX BILLION STEPS TO THE SUN, 396 Johnson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Noumena, Columbia University Annual Summer Show (curated by Sally Eaves Hughes, Emmanuel Olunkwa, & Caroline Maxwell), 1285 2nd Ave, New York, NY

Columbia University Thesis Exhibition (curated by Elisabeth Sherman), Wallach Gallery, New York, NY

Skylight Gardens group exhibition (curated by Cal Siegel), Prentis Hall, New York, NY
2021 M23, Eponymous (group exhibition with Bat-Ami Rivlin & Dominic Palarchio), 24 Henry st, NY

Francois Ghebaly, ( viewing room exhibition with Lyn Liu for Neïl Beloufa), 391 Grand St, New York, NY

The (Better Late Than Never) Summer Show (curated by Junni Chen & Owen Duffy), space provided by Chashama, 81 Essex st, New York, NY
Columbia University First year Exhibition , Wallach Gallery, New York, NY
I Thought It Was A Drought (organized by Tomas Vu), 164 Ashburton Ave, New York, NY 2020 Materialist , Montgomery College, SilverSpring, MD

2019 Rush Hour, 208 Bowery, New York, NY

2016 No Headaches, 321 Wyckoff ave, Brooklyn, NY

2015 SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING , 31 3rd ave, New York, NY

Everything Must Go!, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY

2014 Who Could Say, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY

Press

2023. Sculpture Magazine, https://sculpturemagazine.art/elzie-williams-iii/

Yale University Radio, https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/elzie-williams-iii/

Wide Walls, https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/elzie-williams-iii-m-2-3-gallery

Columbia University School of the Arts, https://arts.columbia.edu/news/elzie-williams-iii-22-presents-first-solo-exhibition-politics-usual

Art Viewer, https://artviewer.org/elzie-williams-iii-at-m-2-3/

2022. Columbia News (Columbia University) ,https://news.columbia.edu/news/meet-15-lions-social-justice-class-2022

2020. Columbia University SOA, https://arts.columbia.edu/news/bat-ami-rivlin-‘19-and-elzie-williams-iii-featured-eponymous-m23-gall ery

2015. Cooper Union Senior Snapshots , https://cooper.edu/art/news/senior-snapshots-2015-school-art