Philemona Williamson

	Born in New York Lives and works in Upper Montclair, NJ
Education
	1979	MA, New York University, NY
	1973	BA, Bennington College, VT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
	2022	Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	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
	2019	Fractured Memories: The Art of Philemona Williamson, Hartwick College, Foreman Gallery, Oneonta, NY
	2018	Drumthwacket, Governor’s Residence, Trenton, NJ
	2017	Hovering Tales: New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York Philemona Williamson: Metaphorical Narratives, essay by chief curator Gail Stavitsky, retrospective, Montclair Art Museum, NJ; catalogue 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
	2015	Black & Colored: Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2013	Philemona Williamson: New Works, Delaware Center For The Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
	2012	Philemona Williamson: New Work, Center for the Arts, Holtzman Gallery, Townson University, MD; catalogue
	2010	Fractured Tales, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2009	Philemona Williamson Exhibition, curated by Bertha Gutman, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA; brochure
	2008	Sudden Passage, essay by Cynthia Nadelman, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2006	New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	2003	New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York; catalogue
	2001	Philemona Williamson, curated by Catherine Bernard, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, College at Old Westbury, New York
	2000	New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1999	Time and Memory: Paintings by Philemona Williamson, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
	1998	Recent Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1995	New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
	1994	Philemona Williamson: Fables and Fantasies, Hypo-Bank, New York ; catalogue
	1993	Inaugural Exhibition, Flushing Council on Culture & Arts, New York Selected Paintings, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
	1992	New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York Powers Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, PA
	1991	African American Museum, Hempstead, New York
	1990	Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York Fine Arts Gallery, Southampton College of Long Island University, Southampton, New York
	1989	Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	1988	Philemona Williamson: Recent Paintings, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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.
	2007	Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL; catalogue
	2005	Five Contemporary Voices in A New Space, curated by Bianca Dorsey of the June Kelly Gallery, Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC; brochure
	2004	A Universe of Art, organized by Corporate Art Directions, Credit Suisse First Boston, New York Unveiling the Image: Multicultural Women Artists, curated by Nancy Cohen and Denise Call, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; catalogue
	2003	Growing Up: Childhood in American and Native American Art, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
	2000	Collector’s Choice II: Contemporary Art from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, FL; catalogue
	1999	Drawing in the Present Tense, curated by George Negroponte and Roger Sheperd, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, traveling exhibition; catalogue
	1998	Postcards from Black America, curated by Rob Perrée, De Beyerd, Center for Contemporary Art in Breda, Netherlands, and the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands; catalogue Walk the Walk: Mentoring Youth in Art, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; brochure
	1997	Women In Full Effect, curated by Nanette Carter, sponsored by RUSH Philanthropic Art Foundation, New York
	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, catalogue Real: Figurative Narratives in Contemporary African-American Art, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL The Boat, Object and Metaphor, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY, and the Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Other Agendas, Kingsborough Community College Art Gallery of CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
	1994	Current Identities: Recent Paintings in the United States, 1994 Cuenca International Bienal of Painting, Ecuador, organized by Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
	1992	Present Tense, UWM Fine Arts Gallery, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
	1991	In the Looking Glass: Contemporary Narrative Painting, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
	1988	Alice And Look Who Else Through the Looking Glass, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
Public and Corporate Collections
	Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Hampton University Museum, VA Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, MA Mott-Warsh Art Collection, Flint MI AT&T, NJ Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY
Special Projects/Commissions
	2020	Nelson, Marilyn, (author), Philemona Williamson (illustrator), “Lubaya’s Quiet Roar,” Dial Books
	2016	Poetry in Motion, MTA Arts & Design, New York
	2015	Visions of Our 44th President Barak Obama, bust, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
	2006 -2007	Seasons, Faceted Glass, commissioned by the MTA-Art in Transit, Livonia Station, Brooklyn, NY
	2003-2004	Folktales From Around the World, four glass mosaic murals, 6 feet x 15 feet & 6 feet x 8 feet, commissioned by the New York State School Construction Authority and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program
	1999	Art in Embassy Program, US State Department, Madagascar
Grants and Awards
	2022	Philemona Williamson received a 2022 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts
	2015	Artists-in-Residence Program, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans
	2008	Bau Institute, two-week residency , Otranto, Italy
	1997	Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting , New York
	1993- 1994	Ludwig Vogelstein Grant, New York
	1994	MTA Arts & Design Poster Commission, Union Square Station, New York
	1991	New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
	1989- 1990	Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York
	1988	AIM, Artist in the Marketplace program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York Artists Space, Exhibition Grant, New York
	1987- 1988	National Endowment for the Arts , Fellowship in Painting , Washington, DC
	1983	The Millay Colony for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Austerlitz, NY
Lectures
	2021 fall	Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Sarah Lawrence College, New York Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Adelphi University, Long Island, NY
	2019	Talk, “Painting My Personal Journey,” Kalamazoo Art Institute, Flint, MI
	2016	Keynote Speaker, Art Educators of New Jersey, Long Branch, NJ
	2014 winter	Visiting Lecturer, Art Department, Pace University, New York
	2014 fall	Visiting Artist, Lecturer and Critique, Graduate painting class, Pratt University, New York
	2012	Talk, Philemona Williamson: New Work, Center for the Arts, Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD; catalogue
	2015 winter	Visiting Lecturer, Contemporary Art, Pace University, New York
	2014 fall	Visiting Artist, Lecturer and Critique, Graduate painting class, Pratt University, New York
	2012	“Gallery Talk,” Center for the Arts, Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD; catalogue
	2005	“Gallery Talk,” Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC
	2000	“Creating Art: Conversation with African-American Artists at The Montclair Art Museum,” Sunday, March 26
Teaching/Consulting Assignments
	2018-2020	Lesley University, MFA-New Artists, Cambridge, MA
	2017-present	Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
	2016-present	Visiting Professor, Narrative Painting, Hunter College, New York
	2015	Guest Lecturer, Contemporary Art Class, Pace University, New York
	2014	Guest Lecturer, Graduate painting Class, Pratt University, New York
	2007-2012	School of Visual Arts, Drawing and painting, New York
	2003-2016	Instructor, “Doing Art Together,” Instructor, Throughout the Metropolitan Area, New York
	1994-1996	Panelist, New York State Council on the Arts/Visual Arts Panelist
	1994	Visiting Artist, Parsons School of Design/Visiting Artist/MFA Program, New York
	1992	Juror, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts/Juror/Art Fellowships University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Visiting Artist
	1991-1992	Cooper Union/Adjunct Faculty/Freshman Foundation Painting, New York
	1991-1992	Parsons School of Design/Adjunct Faculty/Freshman Foundation Drawing, New York
	1991	Bard College/Painting Faculty/Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, NY
	1990	Flushing Council on Culture & Arts, NY/Panelist, Artist Colonies Seminar National Endowment for the Arts/Panelist/Services to the Arts/Artist Communities Panel
	1989- 1998	The Getty Center for Education in the Arts/Advisory Board
	1989-1990	Rhode Island School of Design/Adjunct Faculty/Freshman Foundation Drawing