Tom Williams
Instructor, Art History
Watkins College of Art
Ph.D. State University of New York (Stony Brook), M.A. State University of New York (Stony Brook), B.A. University of West Florida
Location: Leu Center for the Visual Arts 114
thomas.williams@belmont.eduBiography
Tom Williams has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, New York University, and Vanderbilt University and is also a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. His writings have appeared in Art in America, Grey Room, and other publications. Williams has also co-facilitated an art workshop in Unit 2 (the Death Row unit) of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, and he has co-curated (with Robin Paris) a number of exhibitions of prisoners’ art, including Life After Death and Elsewhere at Apexart in New York City. He is also working on a book about art and mass incarceration and co-editing a book about the politics of mimicry in contemporary art.