1972, 1975-1976
B.F.A, California Institute of the Arts
1973
Cooper Union
Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, November 10 – December 22, 2011
2010
"Al-Qaeda is the CIA," 303 Gallery, New York, September 18 – October 23, 2010
2008
"Project for the New American Century," David Zwirner Gallery, New York, September 11-October 25, 2008
2006
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2005
303 Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2003
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Carpenter Center, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2002
Secession, Vienna, Austria, and IVAM, Valencia, Spain (in 2003)
Galerie Hauser, Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
303 Gallery, New York
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida
2001
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Bernier/Eliades, Athens
2000
303 Gallery, New York
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1998
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Galerie und Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
Sadie Coles, London, U.K.
1997
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
1996
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Modulo Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
1995
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
1994
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Modulo, Lisboa, Portugal
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
1993
Vera Vitagioia, Naples, Italy
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1992
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO
1991
Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions:
2012
"The Displaced Person," Invisible Exports, New York, NY, January 6-February 12, 2012
2011
"Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, February 17 – May 20, 2012
2010
"Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in Four Acts: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection," Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, June 10, 2010 – May 22, 2011
2009
"Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969 – 2009," Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands, May 30 – August 23, 2009
2008
"The Gallery," David Zwirner Gallery, New York, July 3 – August 8
2007
"Jubilee Exhibition," House Eva Presenhuber VNA, Engiandina Bassa,
Switzerland, October 18, 2007 – March 31, 2008
"The Third Mind," Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, September 27, 2007 – January 3, 2008
"Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, March 4 – June 11, 2007
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
2006
"Lara Schnitger, Lily van der Stokker, Sue Williams," Modern Art, London, January 13 – February 12, 2006
2005
"Kiss Kiss," c/o, Berlin, Germany, November 24, 2005 – January 28, 2006
"Artists' Books revisited," Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 1 – November 26, 2005; travels to Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY, December 10, 2005 – January 4, 2006
"Interstate," curated by Adam McEwan, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, September 8 – October 1, 2005
"Extreme Abstraction," curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, July 15 – October 2, 2005; cat.
2004
"North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now," The Parrish Art Museum,
Southhampton, NY, Part 1: May 23 – July 18, 2004 & Part 2: July 25 –
September 12, 2004, cat.
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2003
"Social Strategies: Redefining Social Reealism," University Art Museum,
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, March 18 – May 11; University Galleries,
Normal, IL, September 9-Ocotber 19, 2003; Richard Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA., catalogue
"Size Matters," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, July 29- August 30, 2003
2002
"Contemporary Art Project", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"art in the 'toon age", Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI
2001
"Brooklyn!", Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
"Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, U.K.
"Collaboration With Parkett: 1984 to NOW", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Pop & Post-Pop [On Paper]", Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Locating Drawing", Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000
"Open Ends", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Drawings 2000", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
"There Is Something You Should Know:EVN Sammlung", Ostereichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Palais De Beaux-Art de Bruxelles, curated by Thierry de Dove, Brussels, Begium
1999
"The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Negotiating Small Truths", The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
1998
Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
"Skulptur Figur Weiblich", Landesgalerie Oberosterreich, Linz, Austria
"Painting: Now and Forever," Part I, Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
"Pop Surrealism", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"Connections, Contradictions", Emory University
1997
"1997 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
"Multiple Identity: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art", Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
"Birth of the Cool", curated by Bice Curiger, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, and Kunsthaus Zurich,Switzerland
"Painting Project", Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
1996
"Ideal Standard Life", Spiral Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
"The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art", Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany
1995
"1995 Biennal Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
25 Americans: Painting in the 90's", curated by Dean Sobel, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Imperfect", Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
"Oltre La Normalita Concentrica", curated by Gianni Romano, Comunune di Padova, Padova, Italy
"feminimasculin, le sexe de l'art", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,France
1994
"Miriam Cahn, Marlene Dumas, Kiki Smith, Sue Williams", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
"Coicido y Crucido", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993
"Sue Williams, Lorna Simpson, Tony Oursler, John Currin, Kathe Burkhart", Galleria Galliani, Genova, Italy
"Sue Williams/Wendy Jacobs", Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
"1993 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Regarding Masculinity", Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA1993
"Bad Girls", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England and Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1992
"The Art of Language", Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"The Subject of Rape", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Aperto", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"Die Arena Des Privaten", Kunstverein Munchen, Munchen, Germany
"Privacy", curated by Gianni Romano, Documentario, Milano, Italy
"Speilholle", curated by Kasper Konig and Robert Fleck, Akadamie der Kunste und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, Germany
"Getting to kNOw you", Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
"Drawings", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Fear of Painting", curated by Dan Cameron, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY
"Darkness Visible", The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"How It Is", curated by Jonathan Seliger, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"Dysfunction in the Family Album", curated by David Humphrey, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1991
"Ashley King, Lauren Szold, Sue Williams", 303 Gallery, New York, NY "Drawings", Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
"New Generations: New York", curated by Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
"Presenting Rearwards", curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990
"Karen Kilimnik, Gavin Brown, Sue Williams", 303 Gallery, New York,NY
"Brut 90", White Columns, New York, NY
1989
"Hard Life", White Columns, New York, NY
1988
Gallery Artists, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY
1987
"Lust", M-13 Gallery, New York, NY
"The Double Bind", Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY, in collaboration with "Art Against AIDS" (catalogue)
1985
"Sex Show", Cable Gallery, New York, NY
1984
"Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
Group Show, Hudson Center, New York, NY
1983
"Sue Williams, Vincent Gallo", curated by Edit Deak, Patrick Fox Gallery, New York, NY
1980
"Americans", Grand Palais, Paris, France
"Interiors", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Performance:
1986
"Damaged Goods", The New Museum, New York, NY, "Docent Tour", with Andrea Fraser