Brittney Leeanne Williams | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1990: Born in Pasadena, CA
2008: BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Spotlight: Brittney Leeanne Williams," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2025: The Armory Show, Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2024: "The Form in Which the Spirit Dresses," Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2023: "Brittney Leeanne Williams: Huddle," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
: "Brittney Leeanne Williams: I’m There Where the Angel Is Missing," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
: "Brittney Leeanne Williams: Name This Mountain Interruption," Carl Kostyál, Stora Sundby, Sweden
2021: "The Body Knows Its Door," The Hole, New York, NY
: "How Far Between and Back," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
: "Brittney Leeanne Williams: The Arch Is a Portal Is a Belly Is a Back," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
2020: "This Bitter Earth," Mamoth, London, UK
2019: "To Tarry in Prayer/To Terri in Prayer," Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Fair and Group Exhibitions

2026: "Unmade," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium (forthcoming)
2025: "History or Premonition," Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA
: "For Pete’s Sake 2.0," Market Art Fair, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
: "When Mountains Dance with the Ocean," Bode, Cape Town, South Africa
2024: "Grace Under Fire," Curated by Kyle DeWoody, Laura Dvorkin and Maynard Monrow, The Shepherd, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
: "Arcus," Rachel Uffner, New York, NY
: "Monomythology," The Hole, New York, NY
: "Space Race," Curated by Dexter Wimberly, Lehmann Maupin, London, UK
2022: "Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA
: "Through a Glass, Darkly," Carl Kostyál, London, UK
: "Gardens of Ten Seasons," Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
: "Shivering Trees, Curling Flames," Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
: "The Natural World: Part II," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
: "FuturePresent: Acquisition Highlights from the Permanent Collection," Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
: "Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art," The Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, CA
: "Abigail Lucien and Brittney Leeanne Williams," Deli Gallery, New York, NY
: Kathmandu Triennale, Kathmandu, Nepal
: FOG Design+Art, Alexander Berggruen
2021: "Black is Beautiful: Recent Gifts from Black Art in America and Najee & Seteria Dorsey," Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
: "Universes 4," Galerie Droste, Paris, France
: "Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies," Phillips (online)
: "Stockholm Sessions," Carl Kostyál Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Otherwise/Revival," Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "Don’t Call Me Muse," Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020: "Ma was Heavy," Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
: "This Sacred Vessel (Pt 3.)," Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
: Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark
: "Sit Still," Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, NY
: "We Begin with Noticing," Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Garden of Six Seasons," Para Site Gallery, Hong Kong
: "Second Smile," The Hole, New York, NY
: "No Time Like the Present," PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
: "Quarters: Anne Buckwalter, Dustin Hodges, JJ Manford, Brittney Leeanne Williams," Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY
: "Blackstract," TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Circle Within a Square," (Two Person), LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019: "A Tale of Today," Driehaus Museum and EXPO Chicago, Chicago IL
: "The Barn Show," Johannes Vogt, New York, NY/East Hampton, NY
: "Show Me Yours," Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
: "Fresh Fruit," Curated by Benjamin Tischer, Situations Gallery, New York, NY
: "Give Me Body!," MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY
2018: "UNTITLED," Art Miami, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
: EXPO CHicago, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL
: "The Annual," Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
: "Cosmic Traffic Jam," Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
: "Not An Inert Box," Triumph, Curated by Danny Floyd, Chicago, IL
: “UNTITLED,” Art Miami, Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
: EXPO Chicago, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago, IL
: “The Annual,” Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
: “Cosmic Traffic Jam,” Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
: “Not an Inert Box,” Curated by Danny Floyd, Triumph, Chicago, IL
: "Home/Lands," The Object Press, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
: "Noonlight," EFA Blackburn 20|20, New York, NY
2017: "Petty Biennial," Curated by La Kiesha Leek, Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL
: "Art at the Margin," Hunter College Project Space, Hunter College, New York, NY
: "Lil Swim," Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Here + Now," Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2016: "The Art of Blackness," Block 37, Chicago, IL
: "Women We Love," Gallery 19, Chicago, IL
: "Shared History: 150 SAIC Anniversary," South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
: "Abandoned Margins: Policing The Black Female Body," WomanMade, Chicago, IL
2015: "I Can;t Breathe," ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "(N),either (N)or," Curatorial Lab, Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2026: Hilma af Klint Center Artist-in-Residence, Adelsö, Sweden
2024: Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA
2021: The Fores Project Residency, London, UK
2020: Luminarts Fellow
: Coney Family Fund Award
2019: A Tale of Today Emerging Artist Fellow, Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, IL
: McColl Center for Art + Innovation Artist-in-Residence, Charlotte, NC
2018: Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant
2017-2018: Arts + Public Life Artist-in-Residence, Chicago, IL
: The Center Program Residency, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2017: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2016-2017: HATCH Project Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL

Public Collections

: The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
: Domus Collection, New York City, NY / Beijing, China
: Fundacion Medianoche0, Granada, Spain
: HE Museum (HEM), Foshan, China
: MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
: Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
: The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts & Culture, Charlotte, NC
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: X Museum, Beijing, China