Born 1983, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Education and Residencies
2009 MFA, Painting and Print Making, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2007 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Honors and Awards
2021 Pew Fellow, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2020 Joan Mitchell Grant Recipient, New York City
2019 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida
2018 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
2014 Artist in the Market Place, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, New York
2012 Artist in Residence. Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, Brooklyn, New York
2011 - 2009 Hearst Foundation Grant Recipient, New York City
2009 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship for Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 - 2008 MFA Student Fellowship, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2007 Morris Louis Award for Excellence in Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 -2006 Maryland Citation for Excellence in the Arts, Office of Senator Verna Jones, Baltimore, Maryland
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
2022 Didier William: Pictorial Moves of Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
2021 Dance, Without Incident, M+B, Los Angeles, California
2021 Siklon, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, California
2020 Lakou, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
2019 Didier William, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire
2018 Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 2, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City
2018 Curtains, Stages, and Shadows, Act 1, James Fuentes, New York City
2018 The Aesthetics of Matter (curated by Mickalene Thomas and Racquel Chevremont), VOLTA NY, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York City
2017 We Will Win, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, New York
2015 Camouflage, Hap Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2010 Didier William, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany
2010 Didier William, Galerie Schuster, Miami, Florida
Group Exhibitions
2023 Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago
2022 State of the Art 2020: Locate, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
2022 Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark
2022 Evade or Ensnare: Decorative Illusionism in Historic and Contemporary Painting, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022 Augurhythms, Hesse Flatow, New York City
2021 10, PM/AM, London, United Kingdom
2021 Victoria Miro x OUT Collective, Victoria Miro Online
2021 Phantom Body, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Dancing in Dark Times, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020 Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
2020 There will come soft rains, Stellar Projects, New York City
2020 Painting Is Its Own Country (curated by Dexter Wimberly), The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina
2020 Building a Better Monument (curated by Seph Rodney), Art at a Time Like This, online exhibition
2020 Theft & Found, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2020 State of Art II (curated by Lauren Haynes, Alejo Benedetti and Allison Glenn), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentoville, Arkansas
2019 Painting Is Its Own Country (curated by Dexter Wimberly), The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina
2019 The Gag (curated by Devan Shimoyama), De Buck Gallery, New York City
2019 Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
2019 The Politics of Rhetoric (curated by Ksenia Nouril), The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2019 Embody, Mandeville Gallery, Schenectady, New York
2019 As long as we are flyin' all this world ain't got no end, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
2019 They Gaze, James Fuentes, New York City
2019 Bed (curated by David Humphrey and Kate Javens), Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
2019 Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
2019 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
2019 They’re Made Out of Meat (curated by Jennifer Coates), Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, New York
2018 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida
2018 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York City
2018 ZIG ZAG ZIG, DC Moore Gallery, New York City
2018 Swarm (with Nestor Armando Gil), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2018 Strange Looks, Gildar Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2018 ISNESS (curated by Austin Thomas), Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York City
2018 Invitational exhibition of visual arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
2017 Passenger Pigeon Press Anniversary Show, La Maison D’Art, New York City
2017 Fold Ten, C.R Ettinger Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2017 Accordion Space, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts at Union College, Schenectady, New York
2017 Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
2016 Enlarged Fern (curated by Becca Lieb and David Muenzer), Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, California
2015 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (curated by Katy Grannan), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
2015 Bronx Calling, AIM Biennial (curated by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and Laura Napier), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
2014 No More Place, Aferro Gallery, Newark, New Jersey
2014 Improvised Showboat (curated by Lauren Britton and Katherine Bradford) Brooklyn, New York
2012 Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape (curated by Sangram Majumdar and Karla Wozniak), Spaceshifter Projects, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Artquake, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Momenta Art Benefit, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City
2011 Intersecting Cultures/Virtual Worlds, Underground Gallery at The Betsy Hotel, Miami, Florida
2010 I’ll Let You Be In My Dreams, If I Can Be In Yours, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York City
2010 Nice To Meet You, Sloan Fine Art, New York City
2010 Artquake, Renaissance Fine Art, New York City
2009 The Open (curated by Dodie Kazanjian), Deitch Projects, Long Island City, New York
2009 Summer Exhibition, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York City
2008 New Akademiks, Galerie Schuster, Berlin, Germany
2008 Transformers, Gateway/BlackBox Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
2008 MFA Fall Exhibition, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2008 Yale Norfolk Visiting Artist Exhibition, Norfolk, Connecticut
2005 Disegno: Contemporary Drawing Exhibition (traveling exhibition), Maryland Institute College of Art; Kansas City Art Institute; Princeton University; California College of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
2005 Summer Exhibition, Olympos, Karpathos, Greece