Alun Williams
born in 1961 in Manchester, England
lives and works in New York

At the same time as his artistic career, Alun Williams has pursued an activity as a curator.
In this role, he has initiated numerous residency and 
exhibition programmes : in Nîmes, where he was one of the founders of La Vigie in 1992, in Marseilles, where he created Triangle France in 1994, linked with the Triangle Association in New York of which he is a member of the board of directors. Since 2000, he has been the director of Parker's Box, a contemporary art gallery which he opened in the Brooklyn, gallery neighbourhood of New York City.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009   Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris

2007   *Le Moulin, Espace d’Art, La Valette du Var

2001   Gasworks International Residency Programme, Londres, Angleterre

2000   Galerie du Tableau, Marseille

1997  *Le Moulin, La Valette du Var
1997 Galerie du Tableau, West Chelsea Arts Building, New York, USA

1995   Galerie du Placard, Paris & Nîmes
1995 Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
1995 La Tour du Roy René, Marseille

1993   Galerie Raph Debarrn, Paris & Nice

1992   Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

1991   Galerie Pascal Paradis, Nice

1990   Municipal Contemporary Art Gallery, La Tête d’Obsidienne, La Seyne sur Mer

1989  *Ecole de Nîmes, Nîmes

1988   Tom Allen Centre, Stratford, Londres, Angleterre
1988 City Museum et Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Angleterre
1988 Mario Flecha Gallery, Londres, Angleterre

1984   Galerie MedaMothi, Montpellier

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)              *catalogue

2008-2009 le chemin de peinture, * Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice
(with Gérard Gasiorowski, Denis Castelas, Valérie Favre et Stéphane Pencréac’h)

2007  Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York

2006  timesharing, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris ( with Miriam Cahn, Gregory Forstner, Djordje Ozbolt)
2006 Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2003  *Oni Gallery, Boston, Mass

2002   Plus Ultra Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2001  Le Moulin, galerie municipale d’art contemporain, La Valette du Var, France

1999  Jeffrey Coploff Gallery, New York (with Jean Bellissen and Jean-Jacques Ceccarelli)

1997-8  Galerie de La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

1997   *Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1997 Artcade, Marseille, France (with Gerard Williams)

1996   *Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France

1995    Pavillon de Bercy, galerie municipale d’art contemporain, Paris (with Louis Cane, Djamel Tatah and Jean Sérou)
1995 CIAM, Université Mirail, Toulouse, France

1994 Galerie Raph Debarrn, Nice, France
1994 Galerie Modeparis, Château de Servières, Marseille, France

1993-94  *« Kultur on Tour » exposition itinérante, France et Allemagne

1992   *Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France;
1992 Galerie Pascal Paradis, Nice, France
1992 Cercle Münster, Luxembourg
1992 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris

1991  Vermont Studio Center Gallery, Johnson, Vermont

1989  Galerie Athanor, Marseille, France
1989 *Peterborough City Museum, Peterborough, England

1988  *City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
1988 Galerie Carreton, Nîmes, France

1987  Goldsmiths’ Gallery, London, England
1987 Mario Flecha Gallery, London, England

1986  OYB Gallery, London, England

1985 Interim Art, London, England (with Robert Ellis and Eric Bainbridge)

1982  Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales

1979  Undercroft Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England

AFFILIATIONS

Fondateur & Président, Triangle France, Marseille
Fondateur & Vice-Président, La Vigie, Nîmes
Fondateur & Directeur, Parker’s Box, New York, USA
Board de Direction, Triangle Arts Association, New York, USA

BIBLOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

2007  Artpress, Nº 340, décembre, expositions: Alun Williams, pp 90-91, Eric Mangion
2007 Journal Sous Officiel, Nº 033, été, Alun Williams, Aux Étoiles Disparues, pp 26-27, Xavier Girard
2007 Trace, journal-catalogue de l’exposition: Alun Williams, Aux Étoiles Disparues, Espace d’Art, Le Moulin, La Valette du Var, 32 pages, textes de: Isabelle Bourgeois, Eric Mangion, Bernard Massini, Yves Reynier          

2006    Artpress, Nº 326, septembre, l’événement, pp 20-21, Richard Leydier
2006 Art in America, janvier, Art World, p 150
2006 Paris-art.com, mars, expos-critiques, Timesharing, galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Stephanie Katz

2004  Coming Up, Octobre, Alun Williams, Inventeur de Structures, pp 92-95, Nadja Groux
2004 72 Projets, FRAC PACA, Marseille, France

2003  The Partenian Effect, Oni Gallery, Boston, catalogue, Christophe Perez
2003 Flash Art, Amanda Church

2002  Brooklyn Rail, automne, Valerie Livingston

2001  Brooklyn Rail, hiver, Rachel Gordon,

2000  Catalogue du Fonds Communal de la Ville de Marseille

1997   Catalogue Alun Williams, La Petite Histoire, La Valette du Var F. Bazzoli, I. Bourgeois, B. Plasse, J. Swartz, 40 pages
1997 Partisan Review, Boston, mai, At the Galleries, Karen Wilkin
1997 La Marseillaise, Williams & Williams, Angelique Schaller

1996   Il Giocatore, Marseille
1996 Catalogue de la Fondation d’Entreprise Provence-Côte d’Azur Collection

1995   Taktik, No 319, Yves Gerbal

1993  Sub Rosa, Vol. 3, No. 3, Forgetting the Museum- Absent Faces, Dominic Hardy
1993 Catalogue, Kultur on Tour
1993 Art Presence, No. 7, p31
1993 Catalogue, Le Cailar, ’93

1992  Document, Alun Williams, Isabelle Viallat, textes de: Dominic Hardy, Christian Skimao
1992 Artension, No. 32, pp 1 & 68, Pierre Souchard
1992 Catalogue, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

1990  Arthèmes, été, Alun Williams, Marie-Laure Lions

1989  Catalogue, Alun Williams, Ecole de Nîmes, Nîmes, texte de Armet Miralles
1989 Kanal, No. 42, Christian Skimao
1989 Mars, No. 24 pp 24-25, Alun Williams, Interview de Armet Miralles
1989 Document, Pacesetters IX, Four Painters, texte de Ameta Wadsley

1988  Time Out, No. 924, Sarah Kent
1988 City Limits, No. 343, Mark Currah
1988 Artscribe International, No. 72, Figura : Rhetoric in Contemporary British Painting,
1988 Stuart Morgan & Michael Philipson
1988 Document, Alun Williams, Artist in Residence, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum & Art Gallery, textes de Maureen O. Paley et Alun Williams
1988 Catalogue, Object et Image, Aspects of British Art in the Eighties, Stoke-on-Trent City
1988 Museum & Art Gallery, texte de Ian Vines
1988 Video, Alun Williams, Jean-Pascal Vial & l’Ecole de Nîmes

1987  City Limits, No. 320, Mark Currah

1986  Artline, Vol. 3, No. 4, p33. Arthur Berman

1985  Time Out, No. 792, Sarah Kent
1985 Arts Review, octobre

1984  Mars, No.2 pp. 45-48 : Alun Williams, The Waiting
1984 Flash Art, hiver, p.64, Ben Vautier

GRANTS

2004 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
2002  AFAA, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
2001  AFAA, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
1996  DRAC Basse Normandie
1992  AFAA, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
1992 Canada Council
1991  Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
1991 Ateliers de Laguépie- DRAC Tarn et Garonne
1988  British Council
1985  Greater London Arts Council
1985 Blackheath School of Art Discretionary Scholarship
1983  Welsh Arts Council