Antoine Williams
There Will Be No Miracles Here, 2021
Mixed media
15 x 11 inches

Antoine Williams' interdisciplinary practice is an investigation of power and perception through the lens of critical race theory. Heavily influenced by science fiction, and his rural, working-class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina, Antoine has created his own mythology about the complexities of contemporary Black life. An artist-educator, Antoine received his BFA from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and his MFA from UNC Chapel Hill. He helped start the God City Art Collective in Charlotte, where he participated in a number of socially engaged, community-based art projects. He is a member of the North Carolina Black Artists for Liberation (NCBAFL). A group dedicated to making art institutions in North Carolina more equitable spaces for BIPOC communities. In 2020, Antoine partnered with a number of museums to fundraise for Black Lives Matter and organizations protesting the criminal justice system. He also worked with the Biden/Harris campaign creating public art to spur Black voter turnout to counter voter suppression. He has exhibited in a number of places, including at the Mint Museum of Art, Michigan State University, Columbia Museum of Art, Smack Mellon Brooklyn, 21c Museum, Elsewhere Museum, The McColl Center of Art and Innovation, the California Museum of Photography as well as many other venues. He has taken part in a virtual residency at The Center For Afrofuturist Studies, in 2022 he is slated to attend the Joan Mitchel Residency in New Orleans and is in the 2021 Drawing Center viewing program, He is also a recipient of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Award for Painters and Sculptors and the 2018 Harpo Foundation Grant Award. His work is in the collection of the Mint Museum and the North Carolina Museum of Art. He's given talks at Auburn University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Williams is an associate professor of art at Guilford College.

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