Williamson Brasfield (b.1983, Palo Alto, CA; lives and works in New York) works with painting, installation, photography, and sound to reevaluate relationships between technologies of perception and notions of time, recuperation, and safety. His research-based practice draws upon references spanning histories of science, philosophy, music, and art, to consider the roles that perceptual experience plays in regulating bodies and environments. He received an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art.
Education
2013 MFA in Painting & Printmaking, Yale University
2007 BFA in Art, Penn State University
Selected Exhibitions
2022 1969 Gallery, Williamson Brasfield + Ricardo Partida, New York, NY
Yeh! Gallery, P.A.D. Retrospective, St. John’s University, New York, NY
2021 P.A.D. x NADA House, Governor’s Island, NY
2019 Beverly’s, Ride A Cow To Find A Horse, New York, NY
2018 Bomb Bop Up Presents, 60hz: Songs of Common Current, New York, NY
P.A.D. Forward Thinking, New York, NY
Malagana Macula, Una Manta De Sudor, Managua, Nicaragua
2017 Young at Art Museum, Summer of Love, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2016 BAVNIC X: 10th Biennial of Visual Arts, Managua, Nicaragua
Space Heater, Opening, New York, NY
Bombpopup! New York, NY
2015 Harbor, Jugo Del Cuerpo: Baby, Will You Please Turn On My Kitchen? New York, NY
Beverly's, Williamson Brasfield & Elizabeth Ferry New York, NY
2014 BAVNIC IX: 9th Biennial of Visual Arts, Managua, Nicaragua
El Panal, Jugo Del Cuerpo, Managua, Nicaragua
2013 Present Company Gallery, Antithesis,, New York, NY
Yale University, Painting & Printmaking MFA Thesis Exhibition, New Haven, CT
Selected Performances
2024 Essex Flowers, Flower Festival 2024, If Vibration is Harmony
2023 Think!Chinatown, Alison Kuo: We’ll Meet Again: Bell Ceremony
2019 Domestic Performance Agency, Subsonic Room, New York, NY
Grace Exhibition Space, Standing Arrangements, New York, NY.
Abrons Art Center, The New Joys of Gellies (w/ Alison Kuo), New York, NY.
2017 The Overlook Place, Blanket Statements, Chicago, IL
Timeshare, Fun House, Bone Bath (w/ Alison Kuo) New York, NY.
Residencies
2017 Arteles, Silence/Awareness/Existence, Haukijarvi Finland
Teaching
2024 SVA MFA Fine Arts, guest
2018 CUNY, College of Staten Island, teacher
Selected Publications and Press
2021: Centro América en Acción: Una aproximación al performance centroamericano y algunos de sus protagonistas, by Pancho Lopez, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, Costa Rica
2019 Bomb Magazine, Issue 147, Spring,
Precog, Volume 5, Bubble Orchestra
2018 La Prensa, Artistas de Nueva York y sus obras en diálogos que retan al mundo actual, Managua, Nicaragua
2016 Contemporary Art Daily: X Bienal de Nicaragua
Radar Poetry: Issue 10
Radar Poetry: Issue 9
2015 Radar Poetry: Issue 8
2014 The Brooklyn Rail, Mel Kendrick: Marker
El Nuevo Diario, A Disfrutar del Arte!