EMMETT WILLIAMS
Biography
| 1925 | born in Greenville, South Carolina |
| Performer and Activist in the | |
| international Fluxus group since its | |
| beginning in Wiesbaden 1962 | |
| 1966-1970 | Editor-in-chief, The Something Else |
| Press, New York | |
| 1977-1980 | Visiting lecturer at the Carpenter |
| Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard | |
| University | |
| 1977 | Grant for concept-art from National |
| Endowment for the Arts, Washington | |
| 1980 | Guest Artist, of the Berliner |
| Künstlerprogramm by the DAAD, Berlin | |
| 1988 | Artist-in-Residence at the Machida-shi |
| Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo | |
| 1990/1992 | Artist-in-Residence, Malindi Artists |
| Proof, Malindi, Kenia | |
| since 1990 | President of the International Artists |
| Museum in Lodz, Poland | |
| 1996 | Hannah-Höch-Award, Berlin |
| Honorary doctor of Fine Arts, Nova | |
| Scotia College of Art and Design, | |
| Halifax, Canada | |
| Co-Curator, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden | |
| 2002 – 40 Jahre Fluxus und die Folgen | |
| Honorary doctor of Fine Arts, Poznan, | |
| Akademie der Künste, Poland | |
| Artist-in-Residence: Radobolja 2006, | |
| Slezak Villa in Ilici (Mostar) Herzogowina | |
| Died 2007 in Berlin | |
Solo exhibitions (Selection)
| 2007 | Fluzeugbilder, BSM excursion art+life-shop, |
| Potsdam | |
| 2006 | Lichtskulpturen, Emerson Gallery Berlin |
| 2002 | Story Lines, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | Poezia konkretna, Galeria AT, Poznan |
| 2000 | Märchenstundengebilde, Haus am |
| Lützowplatz, Berlin | |
| 1999 | POPOPOESIE, Galerie und Edition Barbara |
| Wien, Berlin | |
| 1997 | Fresh Impressionism, Emily Harvey Gallery, |
| New York | |
| 1994 | Fluxus Portraits and New Works, Galerie |
| Fine Art Rafael Vostell, Berlin | |
| New Paintings, Galerie beim Steinernen Kreuz, | |
| Bremen | |
| 1993 | Portraits, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, |
| Ohio | |
| 1991 | Twenty-one Proposals for the Stained-Glass |
| Windows of the Fluxus Cathedral, Galerie | |
| Zielke, Berlin | |
| 1990 | Emmett Williams à Québec, Le Lieu: Centre |
| en art actuel, Québec | |
| 1989 | Jigazo, Fukui-Sinbun Gallery, Fukui (Japan) |
| Multiples, Centre de Gravure Contemporaine, | |
| Genève | |
| 1987 | New Works, Machida-shi Museum of Graphic |
| Arts, Tokyo | |
| 1986 | Poems on Canvas, Galeria Riviera Remont, |
| Warsaw | |
| Tête-à-tête, Galerie Marlene Frei, Zurich | |
| 1984 | Metamorphoses, Galeria Riviera Remont |
| Warsaw | |
| 1983 | Books, Posters & Relics, Centre Georges |
| Pompidou, Paris | |
| 1982 | Schemes & Variations, Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
| 1981 | Impressions of Japan, Fukui, Japan |
| 1980 | Generations and Continuities, Carpenter |
| Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University |
Group exhibitions (Selection)
| 2006 | Oktober Salon, Belgrad, Serbia |
| 2002 | The Fluxus Connection, Museo d’Arte |
| Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genua | |
| Fluxus und Freunde, Neues Museum | |
| Weserburg, Bremen | |
| 2001 | Markers Banner Event, Biennale di Venezia, |
| Venice | |
| 1999 | Das XX. Jahrhundert, Städtische Museen, |
| Berlin | |
| 1998 | Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary |
| Art, Los Angeles | |
| 1997 | Another Language, Haifa Museum, Haifa |
| Livres d’artistes: L’invention d’un genre | |
| 1960-1980, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris | |
| 1996 | Retrospektive in der Berlinischen Galerie, |
| Berlin | |
| Fluxus, Haus des Künstlers, Moskow | |
| 1995 | L’Ultima Avantgardia, Ex Convento di San |
| Comenico, Spoleto | |
| 1994 | Fluxusbritannica, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1993 | In the Spirit of Fluxus, Walker Art Center, |
| Minneapolis | |
| 1992 | Malindi Concrete Poems and patchworks, |
| Malindi Art Gallery, Malindi, Kenya | |
| 1991 | The Pop Art Show, Royal Academy of Arts, |
| London | |
| 1990 | 8th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australien |
| Ubi Fluxus ibi, Biennale di Venezia, | |
| Venice | |
| 1987 | Berlin Art, Museum of Modern Art, |
| New York |