Kandis Williams

Site: El Leñador

Kandis Williams presents a newly commissioned performance of her ongoing ​Eurydice​ project at El Leñador. The performance takes the antique myth of Eurydice as a starting point to anchor the artist’s personal investigation into how Western visual imagination has shaped the construction of Blackness and American culture.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kandis Williams (b. 1985, Baltimore, MD) received her B.F.A. in 2008 from the Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; 219 Madison, Brooklyn; SADE, Los Angeles; Works on Paper, Vienna; and St. Charles Projects, Baltimore; as well as a performance and workshop at Human Resources, Los Angeles. She was recently included in “A Woman’s Work,” a PopRally event at MoMA organized by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. Her work has also been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Underground Museum, Los Angeles; Neu West and 68 Projects, Berlin; and The Breeder, Athens, among other spaces. Williams has an active curatorial and writing practice, and runs Cassandra Press with artist Taylor Doran. Williams lives between Los Angeles and Berlin.