EDUCATION
1998 Master of Fine Arts, Video
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
1996 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
1994 Associate in Fine Arts
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, St. Louis, MO
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship ($20,000) St. Louis, MO, 2018
Slush Fund Micro Grant, Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO, 2015
Creative Stimulus Award ($1,500), Critical Mass for the Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO, 2015
Regional Arts Commission Cultural Resource Center Panels at Entry Door Proposal Finalist ($600), St. Louis, MO, 2014
Artist Support Grant ($1,200, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO, 2013
The Kresge Foundation Arts in St. Louis Grant ($12,000), St. Louis, MO 2010
Regional Arts Commission Grant ($2,000), St. Louis, MO 2010
Community Arts Training Institute (CAT) Fellowship, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO, 2009-2010
Technology Enhances Learning TEL Grant ($300), St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, 1999
SAIC Graduate Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996 to 1997
SAIC Undergraduate Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994 to 1996
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2020
Inheritance, Applebee Gallery at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL (collaboration with Jamie Kreher)
2021
Minimal, Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO (solo show)
2020
Inheritance, Applebee Gallery at MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL (collaboration with Jamie Kreher)
2019
Into the Third Dimension, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, MO
It’s Getting Dark and I’m Failing, Greg Hardwick Gallery at Columbia College, Columbia, MO (solo show)
2017
Satellite Art Show for Art Week Miami, Miami Florida, Duet Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1979: Disco Demotion Night, Cottonwood Club Art Center, Bozeman, MT (up coming)
2016
Transversal Project: Year Zero, St. Louis, MO
Art@Murmuration Murmuration Festival Cortex, St. Louis, MO
Critical Mass Exhibition Fractured Tranquility, COCA St. Louis, MO
Exposure: Ten Years, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, St, Louis, MO
2015
Exhibition 3 G-CAD Jack n Jenny, Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City IL
Exposure 18: Nervous Laughter, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Something Happened, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2014
The Point of ‘Différence’ : Marta Pierbon (Brescia, Italy) & Brett Williams (St. Louis), Curated by Rebecca Harris (London) Duet, Grand Center, St. Louis, MO
As Unstable As – A Survey of Contemporary Electronic and Performance Art in St. Louis, Kranzberg Art Center, St. Louis, MO
Memory, Objects and Place, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
PXSTL: Lots, Reflections with Paul, Collaboration with Paul Art Space, Pulitzer Arts, St. Louis, MO
2013
Feedback 2, Expo Chicago, Special Project for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
Audible Interruptions: Slow Nature Memory, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
Spiderbug Screening, Mr. Manners and His Lovelies, Chicago, IL
Memory Old and New, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo show)
Mr. Manners and His Lovelies, A Transients/Spiderbug collaboration, St. Louis, MO
2012
Where You Going, Where You Been, Yellow Bear Projects, St. Louis, MO
FLATware, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago, IL
Slow Memory Overrun, Saint Louis Community College Forrest Park (solo show)
2011
FeedBack, The Luminary Center for the Arts, St. Louis, MO.
Take 4, PSTL Gallery, St. Louis, M
Blurs, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2010
Recession Rejuvenations, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Concrete Comedy, Open Lot Nashville, Nashville, TN
FLAT 5, Floor Length and Tux, Chicago, IL
2009
Overview_09, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Flunking Calculus, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
For Better or Worse, Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
Brett Williams: Things You Will See, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008
Liv Ullman, Anaerobic Digestion, Post-Psychiatry, Open Lot, St. Louis, MO
Three Hundred Six, Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
Brett Williams: Bag in Tree, Maps Contemporary Art Space, Belleville, IL (solo show)
Brett Williams: A Small Dark Place, PSTL Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo show)
Take Out, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Pedestrian Project: Future Hole, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO (solo show)
2007
Go South for Animal Index Invitational Exhibition, Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Maplewood, MO
Slinger, Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, MO
SCC Multimedia Invitational, St. Charles Community College Art Gallery, St. Charles, MO
Brett Williams, Ameristar Gallery, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO (solo show)
2006
American Democracy Project: Raise Your Voice, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO (DVD catalogue)
Selections from the Contemporary's Flat Files, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Temporary Autonomous Zones, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Lewis Center Project Space, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2005
Erga Topika II, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Thomas Jefferson School, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
2004
Indivisible Cities: Project Backjumps, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Kunstraum Kruezberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany and Toy Shop Collective, Brooklyn, NY
BRETT commercials, Etherart.net online exhibit
Mind Games: Exposure 7, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
48 Hour Film Project, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Winifred Moore Auditorium, Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Local Filmmakers, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Frederick's Music Lounge, St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Tivoli Theater, St. Louis, MO
Art Outside, Nosey Parker collaborative project, Schlafly Bottle Works, St. Louis MO
Books Against Borders, Nosey Parker collaborative project, St. Louis Independent Book Fair Film Festival, St. Louis, MO
2000
8 Artists, The North Gallery, Ferguson, MO
Going Postal: A Mail Art Exhibition, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Faculty Show, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1998
MFA Thesis Screening, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Film Center, Chicago, IL
In the Loop, film and video screening, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Hide Out Artist League (H.A.L.), video screening, The Hide Out, Chicago, IL
1997
Hybrid Show, Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) '97, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Bandits/Mages: Fifth International Forum of Audiovisual Art and Multimedia, Bourges, France
Latino American Students Organization Film and Video Screening, Harold Washington Public Library, Chicago, IL
1996
BFA Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Cheap Art Show, Betty Rhymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCES
2016
Bruxism 20, live electronic sound performance, Schlafly Tap Room, St. Louis, MO,
2013
Slow Nature Memory Variation, live sound performance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO
2006
Shaman, solo performance, Project One, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Socratic Western, Nosey Parker collaborative performance, Project One, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2005
Shaman, solo performance for TAZ, Erga Topika II, Thomas Jefferson School, St. Louis, MO
1998
Shaman, solo performance for Summer Solstice Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL
Sound for Amplified Voice, solo performance for Day of Beauty and Ritual: A Benefit for the Randolph Street Gallery Hosted by the Radical Fairies, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Cosmic Petting Zoo, group performance for Halloween Needs Saints but Witches are Better: A Benefit for the Randolph Street Gallery Hosted by the Radical Fairies, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Date Rape, group performance, Poop Studio, Chicago, IL
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Co-founder and producer of Critical Mass for the Arts’ 5 Questions podcast 2017 to present
Laumeier Art Fair Judge, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, 2017
Joined Critical Mass for the Art St. Louis Board, 2016
Juror, Creative Stimulus Award, Critical Mass for the Arts St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2016
Artist Advisory Board Member, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO, 2005 to 2007
Panelist, Temporary Autonomous Zones (T.A.Z.), panel discussion, Thomas Jefferson School, St. Louis, MO, 2006
Co-Juror, Computer Art 99, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley Art Gallery, 1999
Preliminary juror and member of student programming board, In The Loop film and video screening, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 1998
Undergraduate interdisciplinary critique panelist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Spring and Fall 1997
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Artifact, long term loan Jesek Sculpture Park, Ferguson, MO
Commissioned sculpture for Art@Murmuration Festival
Artifact, Private Collection of Buzz Spector , St. Louis, MO
Dick Pic, Swipe Left, Granite City Art and Design District G-CAD (commissioned sculpture) Feedback 2, Expo Chicago, Special Project for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (commission)
Slow Nature Memory, Audible Interruptions, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO (commission)
University of Illinois at Chicago National Research and Training Center on Psychiatric Disability
St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES AND RESIDENCIES
All The Art Arts Quarterly, Connect the Dots Artist Talk, St. Louis, MO, 2016
University of Missouri St, Louis, The UM-St. Louis Center for the Humanities, Consonance and Dissonance: A Gallery 210 Artist’s Talk, St. Louis, MO, 2015
University of Missouri St, Louis, Exposure 18: “Nervous Laughter Artist’s Panel Discussion, St. Louis, MO, 2015
University of Missouri St, Louis, Artist talk, St. Louis, MO, 2014
St. Louis Science Center, Bright Ideas Expo, Artist talk, St. Louis, MO, 2014
Paul Art Space, Residency, St. Louis, MO, 2013
Bruno David Gallery, Memory Old And New gallery talk, St. Louis, MO, 2013
The Luminary Center for the Arts, The process and practice of installation, St. Louis, MO, 2011
Washington University, Nosey Parker collaborative, St. Louis, MO, 2006
University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO, 2002
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Keri Robertson, “Exposure 18: Nervous Laughter, Gallery 210” All The Art, The Visual Art Quarterly of St. Louis, Winter 2015 Issue.
Rebecca Harris, The Point of ‘Différance’ : or Processes of Making (subtitle), Thinking, Exhibition Essay, 2014
Sarah Hermes Griesbach, “Review: The Good Ship CAM Celebrates 10 years of Art Exploration,” St. Louis Beacon on-line publication, September 16, 2013
Andrew Wyatt, “Brett Williams: Memory Old and New at Bruno David,” Temporary Art Review, May 21, 2013
Ivy Cooper, “Exhibition Reviews: St. Louis, Brett Williams, Luminary Center for the Arts” Art in America, International Review, March 2012
Julia Korol, “FLAT 5 at Floor Length and Tux: Photo Gallery,” Time Out Chicago, The TOC Blog, February 21, 2010
Ivy Cooper, “Review: ‘70s Vibe at Hoffman LaChance,” St. Louis Beacon on-line publication, September 15, 2008
Malcolm Gay, "Brett Williams: A Small Dark Place," Riverfront Times, July 2, 2008
Juan William Chavez, “Pedestrian Project,” Bootprint, Volume 2 Issue 1, June, 2008
Malcolm Gay, "Screen Testes: Before There Was Youtube There was Brett Williams," Riverfront Times, June 19, 2008
"Patrol Log," Art-Patrol.com, June 6, 2008
Malcolm Gay, “On the Wall: Pedestrian Project,” Riverfront Times, January 17, 2008
Holly Gitlin, "Artists Open Their Doors For City-Wide Open Studios," Sauce Magazine, July, 2006
Ebony Hairston, "Doors Wide Open," West End Word, July, 2006
Ivy Cooper, “Erga Topika II,” exhibition catalogue, Thomas Jefferson School, 2005
Bobby Kirk, "Now Playing- Fourth Annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase Wrap-up," Playback Magazine, September, 2004
Ivy Cooper, "Ivy Cooper Encapsulates The Art Scene," Riverfront Times, Aug. 11 - Sept. 8, 2004
Ivy Cooper, "Art: Current Shows," Riverfront Times, July, 2004
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA COVERAGE
5 Questions Podcast Episode 2, Critical Mass for the Arts monthly podcast, 2017
Exposure 18: Nervous Laughter, exhibition catalogue, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, 2015
Interview for Exposure 18: Nervous Laughter on Cityscape, St. Louis Public Radio, August 28, 2015
STL Art-Game Changers: Brett Williams’ Sound Ideas, Interviewed by Nancy Fowler for St. Louis Public Radio, June 20, 2014
The Puff Updater Arts News Paper inaugural Issue, 2014 (upcoming)
Pie Crust Magazine "Mincemeat," the bestiary issue number 6, 2014
Photofloodstl.com, Photo Flood 10: Lafayette Square, May 28, 2012
Photofloodstl.com, Photo Flood 1: Downtown, August 2, 2012
FLAT 5 at Floor Length and Tux: Photo Gallery, Time Out Chicago, The TOC Blog, February 21, 2010
Pedestrian Project, Bootprint, Volume 2 Issue 1, June, 2008
Erga Topika II, exhibition catalogue, Thomas Jefferson School, 2005
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011 to 2018 Adjunct Instructor, St. Louis Community College, Forest Park and Meramec campuses
Classes taught: Video art I, II, Adobe After Effects, Drawing I, II, III and Advanced problems in drawing
2010 to 2011 Teaching Artist, After School Arts Program at Riverview Gardens High School
2010 Teaching Artist, Diversity Awareness Partnership Summer Program
2004 to 2006 Media Intern Supervisor, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO
1999 to 2000 Adjunct Instructor, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley
Classes taught: Video Art I, Video Art II, and Advanced Problems in Video Art, Computer Art Studio and Digital Imaging, Art Appreciation