(b. 1983) Lives and works between Marseille and London
My practice incorporates a range of mediums including moving image, ceramics, drawing and performance and is often collaborative in its process and outcome. These elements are combined to create immersive objects and environments, which conjure a playful and corrosive interchange between notions of the erotic, craft, magic, gender, hedonism and excess. Through the cross contamination of these influences, I wish to provoke conversations around the pressures of power, the politics of sex and the economics of production. My work explores the shifting use values of objects and rituals through history and within contemporary society. Food also plays a prevalent role within my practice, as a tool for exchange, disgust and sensuality.
Contact
Currently represented
by Ciaccia Levi Gallery
(formerly Antoine Levi, Paris)
For any loan or exhibition
requests please contact
info@ciaccialevi.com
Or to contact me directly
zpc.williams@gmail.com
Follow on Instagram
@zoe_pcwilliams
CV
Education
2010-12 MFA Masters of Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2003- 06 BA Hons Art and Visual Culture, UWE Bristol School of Arts Media and Design, Bristol
2002-03 Foundation Diploma in Art Media and Design, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Bournemouth
Residencies & Awards
2023
Fraeme Projects, production residency, Marseille, France
2022
FLUXUS Magnetic Residency, Villa Arson, Nice, France, November 2022- February, 2023
Laboratorio Piramide ceramics residency, Rome, Italy, September-November
Studio Ernan ceramics production residency, Albisola, Italy, April-June
2021
Foundation Thalie, visual arts & creative writing residency, December
Anchor Studio Residency, Newlyn Cornwall, April-June
2020
Triangle- Gasworks and British Council, Crafting Futures residency Nepal
2015
Troy Town Art Pottery Residency, London, November 2015
Standpoint Futures Residency, London, February- March 2015
2012
Extract II Young International Art Prize, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen
2009-2010
The Rootstein Hopkins Artist Award, Spike Island, Bristol
2006-2007
UWE Junior fellowship, Spike Island, Bristol
Solo Exhibitions/projects
2023
Paris Internationale, Solo presentation, Ciaccia Levi Gallery, (Forthcoming October 2023)
Fondant, Panorama, Cur. Vincent Honoré, Fraeme Projects, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, (Current)
Liquid Currency Bars,Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany, 2022-24
2022
'With what eyes' Solo with Carol Rama, for Milan drawing Week, Ciaccia Levi, Milan, Italy
Capital Vice, ABC-Arte, Genoa, Italy
2021
Tendresse, Tendril, Solo exhibition, Ciaccia Levi Gallery, Paris, until 29 January 2022
2019
Sunday Fantasy, solo exhibition, Mimosa House, London
Ruffles, performative soirée, Riva Tunnel, Art Monte-Carlo
2018
Art-O-Rama, with Galerie Antoine Levi, Marseille, August 31st – September 2nd, 2018
The Unruly Glove, the Green Bum and the Sickly Trickle, Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris
2017
Morsa, Studio Amaro, Naples
Ceremony of the Void, solo performance commission, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Snail Tracks, Opening Times, online artwork commission
2015
Pel, Solo exhibition, Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris
2014
Movements in Love, Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris
You Consume Me, solo, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen
2013
Soft Paste, The Studio warehouse Gallery, Glasgow
2010
A Skvader, OUTPOST and The Contemporary Arts Society, Norwich Castle, Norwich
The Flight of O, Spike Island, Bristol
2009
The Sickly Trickle, Trove Projects, Birmingham
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
2023
Keramikos, CAR DRDE Gallery, cur. by Andrea Busto, Bologna, Italy, (Current)
The Butterfly Affect, Fondazione Sandretto, Turin, Italy, (Current)
Le Grand SHOW, Glassbox, Paris
In the Pink, Parlour, London
EX VOTO, organised by Sarah Hartnett & Lucy Stein, PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
Decentering in Ceramics, Richard Saltoun, Rome
2022
Artissima 2022 with Ciaccia Levi, Turin
THE HORROR SHOW! Somerset House, London
La Fugitive, cur. by Ana Mendoza Aldana & Claire Le Restif, LE CRÉDAC, France
Wet Resistance, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, Germany
PALAI, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Lecce, with Ciaccia Levi
Whats Your Poison?, Almanac Projects, Turin
La Forme de l'Eau, rue Froissart, Paris
An Ode to Orlando, Pi Artworks, curated by Marcelle Joseph, London
Body en Trall, Rugby Museum and Art Gallery with GIRLPOWER and Marcelle Joseph Collections
2021
Psychic Anemone, Cob Gallery, London
The Fountain Show, Sundy Gallery, London
CHAPTER 4OUR Abundance, group exhibition cur. Simon(e) van Saarloos, Het HEM, Netherlands
Dreams Made Flesh, group exhibition, Galeria Catinca Tabacaru, Bucharest
Modern Conversations, Tate St Ives, collection rehang, March 2021-March 2023
CERAMICS: The Central Core ‘PART 1’ online, online art Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
MAATO, Gallery Mcube, Nepal
2020
Paris International 2020, Ciaccia Levi, Paris
Clay scheme Talisman Project, Pool School Gallery, Cornwall
DEMO, Deptford Moving image festival, Online
2019
Cater to you, group show, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin
Futures of Love, group show, Magasins Généraux, Pantin
Something soft, group show, Kunstraum, London
The Armory Show, with Galerie Antoine Levi, New York
Cookbook 19, group show, La Panacée, Montpellier
Playful Aggressions, group show, Greengrassi, London
2018
Salon, at Art Berlin 2018, cur. by Tenzing Barshee, Berlin
Sometimes, however, I am called to action by the siren song of that narrative faction, group show, f-u-r-i-o-s-a, Marseille
Mademoiselle, group show, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie, Sète, France
Friends and Neighbours Project, Kunstraum, London
6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
If you Can’t stand the Heat, group exhibition, Roaming Projects, London
Breaking Shells, group exhibition, The Koppel Project, London
2017
NADA Miami Beach, Booth with Antoine Levi
One night bar project for Raven Row Private Gallery event, London
(X) A Fantasy, group exhibition and performance commission, DRAF, London
Performing Objects – weekend event and symposium, Kunstraum, London
2016
Sex Living – New Noveta residency fundraiser, one night event, London
Centers of Indetermination, Group Show, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen (current)
Skins, Group Show, Ellis King, Dublin
Tender Touches, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Paris Internationale 2016,Booth with Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris
Chateaux Double Wide Pop up bar, for solo exhibition by Urara Tsuchiya, Union Pacific, London
AFA 2, cur. by 63rd-77th Steps, hosted by Art-O-Rama, Marseille
ART-O-RAMA, Marseille International Fair of Contemporary Art, Booth with Galerie Antoine Levi, Marseille
H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D, cur. by João Laia, MMOMA, part of 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Artists, Moscow
Chateaux Double Wide, Glasgow International 2016, collaborative project with Urara Tsuchiya and others, Glasgow
Dream Hong Kong, online fair with Galerie Antoine Levi
ESPERANTO, group exhibition curated by Cura, Rowing Projects, London
Thirty Shades of White, Group show, Praz Delavallade Gallery, Paris
ARCO, Madrid with Galerie Antoine Levi, Madrid
2015
Watch yourself, cur. by David Dale Gallery in association with Video Art Network Lagos and UK:NG Festival, Rele, Lagos
KALEIDOSCOPE Magazine video club #COCKSANDCUNTS cur. by Francesca Gavin for the Fall issue 2015
Valse Opale, one night group performative event curated by Vincent Honoré for Paris Internationale, Paris
Impossible Love, group show curated by Vincent Honoré, Projektraum, Vienna
Eternal Bronzer, collaborative event project as part of Art Licks Weekend, Penarth Centre, London
The Chic and The Borderline, One night event in collaboration with DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation) as part of Art international Istanbul
Outrage, group show, cur. Joel Riff, Cite des arts, Paris
SHOW ROOM, group show curated by Its Our Playground, Glassbox Art Space, Paris
Studies in Velvet, house show/event with with Urara Tsuchiya and others, Glasgow
Spring/Summer 2015, group show with Maripol and Clare StephensonDCA, Dundee
2014
Artissima, International Fair of Contemporary Art, with Galerie Antoine Levi, Turin
COCKTAIL III, Collaborative project with Lucie Akerman, KARST, Plymouth
Mood is Made / Temperature Is Taken, group show curated by Quinn Latimer, The Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
2013
Golden Sunrise – group online project screened at Peckham Moving Image Festival
Diamond Dust – A shifting grammar of originality, CIRCA Projects, Edinburgh, screening
COCKTAIL, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, one night event & collaborative project with Lucie Akerman, cur. by Candice Jacobs
OD, The Attic, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham, Screening
1913, Tramway, Glasgow, screening
2012
EXTRACT II,Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen
Easy Living, group Show curated by Jocelyn Villemont & Camille Le Houezec with Less is More Projects, Paris
Don’t Leave Me This Way, The MFA International Show, The Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The MFA Degree show, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
P.D.A, Curtain Showroom, The Telfer Gallery, Glasgow
2011
Castles of Illusion, Intermedia Gallery, The CCA, Glasgow
COCKTAIL, The Motorcycle Showrooms, Bristol
The launch of O, one night event, OUTPOST and The Contemporary Arts Society, Norwich Castle, Norwich
Bibliography:
2023 Capital Vice, monograph of solo exhibition at ABC-Arte, Genoa
2022 Artforum, magazine review of solo exhibition Tendresse, Tendril, April 2022
2021 Figure Figure, magazine feature with Marco Galvan, April 2021
2019 Flash Art feature: Feasts of excess: Zoe Williams by Caroline Elbaor, August 2019
Guardian review of Solo exhibition 'Sunday Fantasy', Spanking, leather and grappling: the artist unleashing women's secret desires', Hettie Judah, 7 June 2019
2018 'Carol Rama’s Psychosexual Melodramas’, Frieze Masters magazine, Issue 7, 'Artists Artists' text written by Zoe Williams.
2016 CURA. NO.21, Front Cover & Essay by Florencia Chernajovsky ‘Bodily Landscapes’
Artforum, March 2016, Review of ‘Pel’, at Antoine Levi by Phil Taylor
2014 You Consume Me, solo exhibition catalogue, Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen
2010 The Flight of O, Limited edition monograph produced for solo exhibition at Spike Island, Bristol