SANDY WILLIAMS IV

“I am interested in visualizing change and building monuments able to keep a living record of activity.”

I am an artist and filmmaker working in sculpture, cinema, performance, painting, photography, text, and the public, currently based in NYC and Richmond, VA. I graduated from the University of Virginia with my BFA, and from VCUarts with an MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media. My work is about the persistence of memory, the body, and resistance. Through my practice I perform acts of persistence, as a dynamic engagement with the historical, in pursuit of the threads that connect our diasporic origin stories to both our official record and the currency crises. This work gives agency to me and to the audience, to actively participate in the creation of future mythologies, and to work towards the emancipation of our public spaces. I am interested in the way time can be passed down, transformed, and gathered inside of us, as well as in the things around us, through a propensity towards permanence also called history.