RESUME
MIKE WILLIAMS (b.1963)
EDUCATION
BFA studio degree, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1990
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Watershed, Parker Gallery, St. Simons Island, GA
2016 Mike Williams-Vistas Real and Imagined, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter,SC
2015 Portal, Cole-Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 Emblematic, The Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC
2012 Periphery, he Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC
2010, 2008, 2007 New Work, the Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC
2006 In the Round, Goodall Gallery, Columbia College, Columbia, SC
2006, 2004 New Work, the Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC
2002, Conception, an outdoors sculpture exhibition, USC-Upstate,
Spartanburg,SC (until 2004)
2002 Translation, Francis Marion University, Florence, SC
2001 Translation; Interpretations of Pritchard’s Island, University of South
Carolina - Beaufort, Beaufort, SC
1998 The Swamp, a Contemplative Space, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
1997 Recollection, University of South Carolina Beaufort Performing Arts
Center, Beaufort, SC
1996 Mike Williams: New Paintings, Seabury Hall Gallery, Seabury-Western
Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Summer Salon I, Circa Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016-2017 ART: A Collection of Collections, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
2013 Art for Art’s Sake, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 ArtFields: An Epic Southern ArtFest, Lake City, SC
2012 Twelfth Annual Winter Exhibition: Chesley, Williams, Wimberly & Yaghjian,
Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC
2012 Abstract Art in South Carolina: 1949-2012, South Carolina State
Museum, Columbia, SC
2010 The Augusta-Columbia Connection, the Old Academy of Richland County,
Augusta, GA
2010 The Carolina Connection: Sigmund Abeles, Joseph Cave & Mike Williams,
the Cheryl Newby Gallery, Pawley’s Island, SC
2009 - 2011 U.S. Art in Embassies Program, Bucharest, Romania
2009 State Art Collection Contemporary Conversations: Part 1, 701 Center for
Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC
2007 Abstract in Nature - Laura Spong, Paul Reed, Katie Walker and
Mike Williams, an if ART Gallery Exhibition at Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC
2007 Kleinformat / Small Format: The Columbia-Kaiserslautern Exchange,
if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2006 South Carolina Birds: A Fine Art Exhibition, City Gallery at Waterfront Park,
Charleston, SC, and Pickens County Museum of Art and History, Pickens, SC
2004 South Carolina Birds: A Fine Art Exhibition, the Sumter County Gallery of
Art, Sumter, SC, and the Burroughs-Chapin Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
2005 Up From the Mud, Aaron Baldwin and Mike Williams, an if ART Gallery
Exhibition at Gallery 80808, Columbia, SC
2002 With / Without Distance, Volksbank Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern,
Germany (14 day Residency followed by Exhibition)
2001 Return to Sender, The Postcard Group, Lake County Museum, Chicago,
Illinois
2000 Return to Sender, The Postcard Group, South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, SC
1997 Terrain, Mural Project, Carillon Building Lobby, Charlotte, NC
1995 What’s for Dinner, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
PUBLIC / CORPORATE COMMISSIONS
2003 Funnel, 20.5 feet tall sculpture, stainless steel, Midlands Technical
College, Columbia, SC
2001 Evolving Over Time, welded steel sculpture, 14’ H x 13’ L, Sumter, SC,
commissioned by the Sumter County Cultural Commission
2001 Space & Time, mural project with students, Fulmer Middle School, West
Columbia, SC
1997 Instrument, painted, welded steel, 8’ H x 5’ L, Governor’s Hill, Columbia,
SC, commissioned by the Cultural Council for Richland & Lexington
Counties and given to the Columbia Housing Authority
1996 Rotation, Relief from Rotation, and Illusion in Perspective, steel sculpture
and mixed media works, respectively 7’ H x 5’ diameter, 34” L x 24” H x
4” D, and 6’ square, commissioned by Richland Memorial Hospital
Foundation for RMH Children’s Emergency Lobby, Columbia, SC
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The South Carolina State Art Collection
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
City of Columbia, SC
City of Sumter, SC
The South Carolina State Museum
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
University of South Carolina Sumter, Sumter, SC
Municipal Association of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Spring Island Trust, Spring Island, SC
Center for Carolina Living, Columbia, SC
Palmetto Health Richland Hospital, Columbia, SC
Midlands Technical College, Carolina Research Park, Columbia, SC
PUBLICATIONS
Phillip Garrett. Inside Acrylics. North Light Books. 2013
E.Ashley Rooney with Paula Allen. 100 Southern Artists. Schiffer Publishing. 2012
Daniel Wallace, “Fish Out of Water,” Garden and Gun Magazine, March-April 2008, pp. 80-87.
Madden, Ed. Signals. Poems. (front cover art) Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press. 2008
Roefs, Wim. Up From the Mud - Aaron Baldwin and Mike Williams. Columbia, SC: if ART, International Fine Art Services. 2005