BERNARD WILLIAMS

Born 1964

EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, MFA, 1990
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois BFA, 1988
WORK EXPERIENCE
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Instructor: Mural painting, 2002 - 2003
2-D drawing 1990 - 1998
Chicago Public Art Group (CPAG), Muralist, mural restoration 1992- Present
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
Grant Recipient, Illinois Arts Council, $7,000. 2007
Residency, Cooper Union, summer, NY, NY 2007
Residency, Painter’s Edge, Idyllwild, CA 2006
Residency, Kohler Art Center, Iron Casting, 2006
Residency, Fine Arts Workshop Center, Provincetown, MA (Oct.-May 2003-2004)
Grant Recipient, Illinois Arts Council, $7,000. Award 2003
Cortland College, Cortland, NY, 2002
Grant Recipient, ARTADIA, New York, NY $10,000. Award, 2001
Residency, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, MS, 1999-2000
Seagram’s Gin Cash Award, 1996
The Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, 1990
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine, 1987
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
Chicago Transit Authority, hanging sculpture, 2007
Illinois Dept. of Transportation, outdoor aluminum wall Medallions, 2007
McCormick Place Convention Center, Chicago, 2007
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN
South Shore Bank, 1999, Cook County Hospital, 2002
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and PROJECTS
2010 “Global/National – The Order of Chaos”, Exit Art, New York, NY
2009 “County Fair”, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
“Buffalo Chart”, Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, WI
“Nighty Nite…”. Solo Exhibition, Slate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show (Buffalo Chart), “Remix”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2008 Group Show, Across the Divide, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL travel, Chicago
Group Show, Remix, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Solo Show, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2007 Group Show, Remix, Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Solo Show, New Sculptures/ The Architect’s Table, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Publication, New American Painters, curated publication, Midwest U.S., 2007
2006 Group Show, Intersections, Kohler Art Center, Kohler, Wisconsin
2005 Group Show, Two Continents and Beyond: Waterways, independent project of 9th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Solo Exhibition, WOOD, WORDS & LINES, sculpture installation, Indiana University-Gary
Solo Exhibition, sculpture and wall installation, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Sculpture On The Grounds, one year outdoor sculpture installation, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Ornamental Systems of Louis Sullivan, new sculpture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Legendary Tales, solo exhibition, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art LA, Exhibiting with Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NYC, Los Angeles, CA
A War Like People, group show, curator Lara Taubman, Phoenix, AZ
2004 Solo Show, Painting and Sculpture, I SPACE, Chicago, IL
Scope Art Expo (NYC-MIAMI), represented by Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Solo Show, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
Mural Commission, collaboration with students, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN
2003 Installation, Southern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Solo Show, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northeastern Illinois Univ., Chicago .IL
Mural Restoration Commission, sponsored by The Chicago Public Art Group, Bank One, Chicago, IL
Mural Commission, Robinson Community Learning Center, South Bend, IN, sponsored by The Snite Museum at Notre Dame University
2002 2 person Show, Beyond Stereotype, Dowd Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY

Mural Commission, Robinson Community Learning Center, South Bend, IN, sponsored by The Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame
Solo Show, African-American Museum in Dallas, TX (September)
Mural Commission, Jackson Public Schools, Jackson, MS
Group Show, Here and Now, Chicago Cultural Center
2001 Solo Show, The Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Publication, New American Painting Vol. 35, A Juried Exhibition in Print, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Solo Show, G. R. N’Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Solo Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL (June 2001)
2 person show, 2 Views, at Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Group Show, Southern Roots – Artists with Alabama Ties, Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL
Group Show, Emblem and Sequence in Contemporary Art, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2000 Mural Commission, collaboration with students at Earle Elementary
School
Mural Commission, collaboration with youth at Center For New Horizons, Ida B. Wells Housing Project
Group Show/ Traveling, Our New Day Begun, African-American Artists Entering the Millennium (LBJ Library-Museum in Austin, African-American Museum in Dallas, Texas Southern Univ. in Houston), catalog
Solo Show, Charting America, 10 Paintings at Christ College/Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
1999 Travel to Salvador-Bahia, Brazil for Latin American Cultural Festival
Travel to Paris and London, 2 weeks, summer
Mural Commission, collaboration with students at Noble Elementary School (51/2’x140’ mural)
Solo Show, Columbia College, Hokin Center Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Solo Show, Charting America, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Group Show and Cultural Exchange Project, Talleria Espacio, Mexico City, Mexico
Mural Commission, Visitation School, Sponsored by GATX and CPAG
Mural Restoration, Meat Packers Mural Charles, Hayes Family Investment Center, CPAG
Group Show, Semantic Images. Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL

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