Thursday, February 12, 2026 @ 4:45-6:30pm
Sandy Williams IV
Hybrid Event (Harris Theater and Zoom)
Sandy Williams IV is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and professor. Their work studies the vernacular of time as it exists across social landscapes and as various units of measurement. Williams’s public artworks layer context against disenfranchised memories and often include emancipatory, live, shared experiences.
Williams’s work conjures communal catharsis and operates like an archive.
Williams is the recipient of the 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and the New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship. They have presented solo exhibitions at Palo Gallery (New York), 1708 Gallery (Richmond), the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Ontario), Roanoke College (Salem, VA), Telematic Arts (San Francisco), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond), and Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville). Their work has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Hyperallergic, and the BBC. Collaborations include Creative Time, CulturalDC, and the Weeksville Heritage Center. Selected group exhibitions and performances include presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Virginia Beach, the Arlington Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harnett Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art at VCU, The Shed (New York), Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), Grounds For Sculpture, Martos Gallery (New York), M+B Gallery (Los Angeles), de boer Gallery (Los Angeles), Springsteen (Baltimore), and NADA House (New York). Williams has been an artist in residence at McDowell (New Hampshire), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida), SOMA (Mexico City), ACRE (Chicago), and the University of Cumbria (UK).
This event will be held at the Harris Theater on the GMU Fairfax campus and online via Zoom. RSVP is required to receive the Zoom link via email the day-of!