Philemona
Williamson Bio
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Born
in New York
Lives and works in Upper Montclair, NJ |
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Philemona
Williamson: Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2023 |
Philemona
Williamson: The Borders of Innocence, Galerie Semiose, Paris, France |
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2022 |
Recent Paintings,
June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2021 |
Paintings from the
Studio, The David Teiger Gallery for the Studio Arts, Elizabeth B.
McGraw
Arts Center, June Kelly Livingston, NJ
Entangled in Truth, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA;
catalogue
Paradise Island, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York
Barbara Friedman and Philemona Williamson, Octavia Gallery, New
Orleans, LA |
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2019 |
Fractured
Memories: The Art of Philemona Williamson, Hartwick College, Foreman
Gallery,
Oneonta, NY |
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2018 |
Drumthwacket,
Governor’s Residence, Trenton, NJ |
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2017 |
Hovering Tales:
New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Career Retrospective: Philemona Williamson: Metaphorical Narratives,
essay by chief curator
Gail Stavitsky, Montclair Art Museum, NJ; catalog
Ashé in the Art of Philemona Williamson, The Beautiful Somewhere: The
Art of Philemona
Williamson, curator and essayist, Arturo Lindsay, The Robert and
Sallie Brown Gallery
and Museum, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History,
University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill; brochure |
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2015 |
Black & Colored: Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2013 |
Philemona Williamson: New Works, Delaware Center For The
Contemporary Art,
Wilmington, DE |
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2012 |
Philemona Williamson: New Work, Center for the Arts, Holtzman
Gallery, Townson
University, MD; catalogue |
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2010 |
Fractured Tales, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2009 |
Philemona
Williamson Exhibition, curated by Bertha Gutman, The Gallery at
Delaware
County Community College, Media, PA; brochure |
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2008 |
Philemona Williamson:
Sudden Passages: New Paintings, essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June
Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2006 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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2003 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue |
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2001 |
Philemona Williamson, curated
by Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, College at
Old Westbury, New York |
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2000 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1999 |
Philemona Williamson….And What She Found There, essay by
Leslie Umberger, Assistant
Curator, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; brochure |
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1998 |
Recent
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1995 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
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1994 |
Philemona
Williamson: Fables and Fantasies, Hypo-Bank, New York ;
catalogue |
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1993 |
Inaugural
Exhibition, Flushing Council on Culture & Arts, New York
Selected Paintings, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA |
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1992 |
New
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA |
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1991 |
Philemona Williamson Paintings, African American Museum,
Hempstead, New York
Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Philemona Williamson: Through the Looking Glass, The Fine Arts
Gallery, Southampton
College of Long Island University, Southampton, NY |
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1989 |
Philemona Williamson, Wenger
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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1988 |
Philemona
Williamson: Recent Paintings, The Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2024 |
Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Museum of Art,
NJ
The Women of The June Kelly Gallery, June Kelly Gallery, New York
(Apr) Art Brussels art fair, Belgium: Galerie Semiose
(Mar) Drawing Now art fair, Paris: Galerie Semiose
Entangled Gaze, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Geneva art fair, Switzerland: Galerie Semiose
(Feb-Jun) 100 years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Museum, NJ |
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2023 |
Paris+ by Art Basel art fair, Paris: Galerie Semiose
Je ne suis pas ce que tu vois de moi, Fondation Frances, Clichy, France
Sins of the Fathers, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
Cyclical Bloom, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
EXPO CHICAGO, International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art:
Jenkins
Johnson Gallery
Drawing Now Art Fair, Carreau du Temple: Galerie Semiose, Paris
The Minotaur’s Daydream, Galerie Semiose, Paris |
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2022 |
Narrative Images: Wendell Jeffrey & Philemona Williamson, RVCC Art
Gallery,
Branchburg, NJ
The New Drawing Room, MassArt x SoWa, Boston, MA 2022 Claiming The
Narrative, The Visual Arts Center, Summit, New Jersey
Body Burdens, curated by students of Collective Curating
in collaboration with Professors
Keith Miller and Eugene Kisin. Exhibiting artists include: Claudia Bitran,
Paulina Freifeld,
Alessandro Del Gatto, Eden, Taff and Philemona Williamson, Gallatin
Gallery, New York
University |
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2021 |
ART FAIRS: Frieze London OVR / Armory show NYC / Miami Art Basel:
Jenkins Johnson
Gallery
Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2021 Paradise Island, Steven Harvey
Fine Arts
P2023
The Minotaur’s Daydream, curated by Anthony Cudahy, Semiose
Galerie, Paris, France |
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2019-20 |
SALLY…An Interdisciplinary Exhibition, project curators: Sasha
Chavchavadze and
Joanne McFarland, The Old Stone House & Washington Park Artpoetica Project Space
The
Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, Brooklyn, NY; catalogue |
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2017 |
Celebrating 30 Years, Gallery Artists: Drawings and Photographs,
June Kelly Gallery, New York
Painting My Personal Journey, Kalamazoo Art Institute, Flint, MI
Converging Voices: Gender and Identity, Hofstra University
Museum, Hempstead, NY |
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2016 |
Recharging the Image: Selections from the Mott-Warsh Collection,
The Visual Arts Center,
Summit, NJ
Visions of Our 44th President Barak Obama, traveling exhibition,
organized by Charles H.
Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI |
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2010 |
Shrew'd: The Smart and
Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, curated by Sharon Kennedy,
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; catalogue
Children’s Pleasures: American Celebrations of Childhood, curated
by Dr. Donna Barnes,
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY; catalogue |
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2009-12 |
A
Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art, organized by
Rutgers-Camden
Center for the Arts and co-curated by
Dr. Martin Rosenberg, Rutgers University and Dr. J.
Susan Isaacs, Towson University;
catalogue. The exhibition will travel nationally
under the auspices of the Curatorial
Assistance Exhibition and Art Services. |
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2007 |
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley
and Clarence Otis, Jr.
Collection, Cornell Fine Arts
Museum, Winter Park, FL; catalogue |
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2005 |
Five
Contemporary Voices in A New Space, curated by Bianca Dorsey of the
June Kelly
Gallery, Delta Arts Center,
Winston-Salem, NC; brochure |
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1996 |
Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists,
Inaugural exhibition
curated by Dr. Jontyle Robinson, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,
Atlanta, GA. Other
venues: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Polk Museum of Art,
Lakeland, FL;
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; African American Museum, Dallas, TX;
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN, and the Ulrich Museum of
Art,
Wichita, KS, catalog |
Awards and Residencies |
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The Joan Mitchell
Foundation
Pollock Krasner
National Endowment For The Arts
New York Foundation For The Arts
Milay Colony |
Public and Corporate Collections |
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Baltimore Museum of
Art, MD
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Montclair Art Museum, NJ
Newark Museum, NJ
Hampton University Museum, VA
Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, MA
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI
Mott-Warsh Art Collection, Flint MI
AT&T, NJ
Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Art in Embassy Program, US State Department-Madagascar |
Public Works |
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Fused glass murals, MTA
Arts in Transit Program, Livonia Avenue Subway Station,
Brooklyn, NY
Poster, MTA Poetry in Motion , NYC School Authority
Mosaic Mural, Glenwood Campus School |
Interviews |
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Podcast: Ep 66:
Interview w/ Philemona Williamson
Pep Talk for Artists |
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