Kiyan Williams is a visual artist based in New York City. Their work has been exhibited across the country and internationally at: The Hirshhorn (Washington D.C.), SculptureCenter (New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), MIT Vera List Center (Cambridge), Art Omi (Ghent), The Shed (New York), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield), Paula Cooper Gallery (New York), Peres Projects (Milan), Altman Siegel (San Francisco), and Lyles and King (New York). Their debut institutional solo exhibition, Between Starshine and Clay, was presented at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in 2022. In 2022 they presented their first public art work in New York City commissioned by Public Art Fund in the group exhibition Black Atlantic. Williams was included in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, Even Better Than the Real Thing.
Williams’ work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, The New York Times: T Magazine, ArtNews, Frieze, BOMB Magazine, émergent magazine, and Mousse Magazine. They were recently profiled by The New York Times and Cultured Magazine. Williams is the recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Graham Foundation Grant, Franklin Furnace Fund, and Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. They have been awarded residencies at Smack Mellon and BTFA. Williams earned a BA with honors from Stanford University and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University.
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