Moses Williams

Biography

"My art practice explores the inseparable nature of cognitive and material experience as it is lived both in and through the body. Working in sculpture, installation, performance, video, and sound, I investigate themes of ritual, empathy, sensuality, suffering, the abject, and the sacred. My practice is an attempt to encourage intimate engagement, a phenomenological examination of the relationship between bodies, materials, objects, and things.

I’m suggesting a more empathetic relationship with all things, seeing the more than human world as essential."

Moses lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a professor of sculpture and intermedia at the University of Utah and adjunct faculty in the MFA program at Watkins College of Art, Belmont University. Moses received a BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, TN, and an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

He has exhibited and performed throughout the United States and Europe, including Apexart – New York, SeelenArt Galerie, Munich, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Das KloHäuschen Art Center, Der Kulturanker Magdeburg, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Zeihersmith Pop-up Gallery, and David B Smith Gallery. Moses has collaborated with The Nashville Ballet and Alias Chamber Ensemble, and with the residents of Unit 2 (the Death Row unit) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, TN on a project with multiple exhibitions spanning several years.