Sam Williams

[email protected]
@s_a_m_w

Vault 8
Somerset House Studios
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

Sam Williams is an artist with a multi-disciplinary practice, working with moving image, choreography, text and collage.

Featured Work

Education

2014–16
  • MA, Sculpture and Moving Image, Royal College of Art (distinction)

Solo presentations

2023
  • Deep in The Eye and The Belly (Part One), San Mei Gallery, London
2022
  • Salvage Rhythms, Arnolfini, Bristol
  • Stay, Studio Voltaire, London (with Oluwaseun Olayiwola)
2021
  • And In The Soil, There Be Mirrors, South Kiosk, London (with Hollie Miller)
2020
  • Salvage Rhythms, She Will Art Space, Norway
2019
  • the actual structure is the material, Siobhan Davies Dance, London

Selected shows, performances and screenings

2023
  • INSIDE, Two Temple Place, London
2022
  • WELTER, Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London
  • Wormshine, Troubling Time, SLICE, Berlin
  • See What I See, May Fair Art Weekend, London
  • Infection, Good Press, Glasgow
2021
  • ISLAND, Videograms Vilnius, Lithuania
  • See What I See, Darmstädter Sezession, Germany
  • See What I See, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
  • ISLAND, Somerset House Studios, London/online
2020
  • Biting and Chewing, The Room Projects, Paris/online
  • AGM, Somerset House Studios, London/online
  • Chapter One, Sankt Studio, Berlin
  • See What I See, Swedenborg Film Festival, London
  • SPERRA: an apartment exhibition, Blaker, Norway
  • Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London
  • I Should Be Doing Something Else Right Now, Somerset House Gallery 31, London
  • Recovery, Irruptive Chora, Chalton Gallery, London
2019
  • Salvage Rhythms, Somerset House AGM, Somerset House Studios, London
  • Ian White: Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object, Kino Arsenal, Berlin
2018
  • Sharing–Holding, PRAKSIS, Oslo
  • Queer Art(ists) Now, Rose Limpan Building, London
  • Looks Like God Left The Phone Off The Hook, Hackney Showrooms, London
  • Utopian Visions Art Fair, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • La Guarida Fiesta, MilesKM, London
  • Eyecatcher III, Big Screen, Focal Point Gallery, Essex
  • A Million Love Songs, Korai Project Space, Cyprus
2017
  • On The Habit of Being Oneself, Sadler's Wells, London
  • Failed States, Deptford X, London
  • Synthetic Ecology II Midnight Notes, ONCA, Brighton
  • Cemetery Dialogue, Fragment Gallery, Moscow
  • Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, York
  • Synthetic Ecology, ONCA, Brighton
  • ‘there was an idea of equality’, Baltic39, Newcastle
  • Cairo Video Festival, Cairo, Egypt
  • The 14th Cinema, London
2016
  • OPEN16 Moving Image, Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton
  • Points of Departure, Tilbury Cruise Terminal, Essex
  • Slow Curtain, Late at Tate Britain, London (w/ Theo Adams Company)
  • Members’ Show, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
  • RCA SHOW 2016, Royal College of Art, London
  • Paper.Publication.Performance, Lychee One, London
  • Notes.app, RCA Dyson Gallery, London
  • RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
  • Borrowed Time, Jerwood Space, London
  • Panorama#1, Genesis Cinema, London
  • Jungle, Royal College of Art, London
2015
  • Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (w/ Rosemary Butcher)
  • Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (w/ Rosemary Butcher)
  • Members’ Exhibition, Temporary Arts Project, Southend
  • Three Rings (Queer Archive), Waldorf Hotel, London
  • MONO, Courtyard Theatre, London
  • Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London
  • RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2014
  • Sound It Out, V&A Museum, London (w/ Emptyset)
  • SkinCells, Rose Lipman Building, London
2013
  • Performing Architecture, Tate Britain, London (w/ Emptyset)
  • Zwei Tage Strom, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2012
  • The Place, London (w/ Rosemary Butcher)
  • Visionary Kingdom, Arnolfini, Bristol (w/ Emptyset)
2011
  • COMMA40, Bloomberg Space, London (w/ Rosemary Butcher)

Awards and Residencies

2022
  • Two Temple Place/ThorpStavri, London
  • Rupert Residency, Vilnius, Lithuania
2021
  • Axisweb Digital Residency
  • Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, Scotland
  • Darmstädter Sezession Prize for Young Artists
  • Somerset House/King's College London Research Grant
  • Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant
2020
  • Wysing Arts Centre Syllabus VI
2019
  • Somerset House Studios resident artist
  • Arts Council England Project Grant
  • London Creative Network Development Program
  • Elephant Trust Grant
2018
  • Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant
  • PRAKSIS, Oslo (residency)
  • ArtHouse Jersey (residency)
  • JOYA Arte + Ecología (residency)
  • Artist Network Professional Development Bursary
2017
  • Stuart Croft Foundation Award
  • Synthetic Ecology II Midnight Notes, ONCA, Brighton (residency)
  • Figure Four, Baltic39, Newcastle, UK (residency)
2016
  • Relax Digital Commission
2015
  • Cité Internationale des Art, Paris (residency)

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