— Artist CV
CARO WILLIAMS MRSS Royal Society of Sculptors Contemporary Artist | b. Hong Kong | Lives and works in London
Email: caro@carowilliams.com
Website: http://www.carowilliams.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carowilliamsartist/
ART QUALIFICATIONS
2008 MA Sculpture with Distinction, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
2005 BVA Sculpture, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
1996 Fine Art Foundation, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
AWARDS & FUNDING
2023 Finalist Aesthetica Art Prize
2021 Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter – Museum at Large Public Art Commission, Funded by Arts Council National Lottery
2018 Funding and Support received from New Zealand Embassy, London
2017 Funding and Support received from Manurewa Local Board, Auckland Council
2016 Funding and Support received from Creative New Zealand – WW100 Co-commissioning Fund
2015 Finalist (2nd place in category), Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize
2015 Awarded the Distinguished Artist Award, ArtAscent, Art & Literature Journal, June 2015
2014 Finalist, 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards, New Zealand
2013 Awarded the Gen-i Selector’s Award, Headland Sculpture Biannually Selectors Award, New Zealand
2008 Awarded the Wallace Arts Trust Award for Most Promising Visual Arts Postgraduate
2007 Awarded a Postgraduate Research Scholarship (Visual Arts), AUT University
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Aesthetica Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York
2023 On the Edge, Royal Society of Sculptors London Group Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London
2022 Terra Exhibition, Espacio Gallery, London
2022 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells
2022 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, Cromwell Place, London
2022 Royal Scottish Academy 196th Annual Exhibition online, Edinburgh
2021 Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery – Museum at Large Public Art Commission, Rougemont Gardens, Exeter
2021 Unboxing – A Travelling exhibition, Arts Territory Exchange, Moving across continents via a network of curators, artists, and archivists – Current
2021 Big Small Summer Exhibition, Small House Gallery, London
2021 A Stitch in Time, Arts Territory Exchange, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
2020 Summer Exhibition, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
2020 Sound Library, Arts Territory Exchange and Muck (Must Use Critical Knowledge)
2020 Automated, Fringe Arts Bath, Virtual edition
2020 In the Silent Air selected for inclusion in Fabrizio Paterlini – Piano Microstories – The Eighth Note Publication
2019 4th Today’s Documents: A Stitch in Time, Arts Territory Exchange, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2019 Soundscape – Iceland selected as New Art Highlight by Axisweb
2019 Put this in Your Window and Think of Me – Arts Territory Exchange, Dept of Land Economy Cambridge University and Cambridge Artworks Gallery
2019 The Blue Hour selected as New Art Highlight by Axisweb
2019 Contemporary Art + Ritual, (co-curator + exhibiting artist), Crypt Gallery, London
2018 Cicatrix Imprime, Atelier Circulaire Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2018 Cicatrix, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
2018 Call and Response, Trowbridge Arts, Trowbridge, UK
2018 Shifting Ground off-site, London, as a solo component of Shifting Ground, Silo 6, Auckland, NZ
2018 Peace Drawings in Neon selected in Five2Watch: NEON by Axisweb
2017 Call and Response (Solo exhibition), Nathan Homestead, Auckland, NZ
2017 Drawing from Voice Installation selected for ‘Text’ Category of the Week, Axisweb
2017 White Night Auckland, Auckland Arts Festival, NZ
2017 Call and Response, Study in Brass, selected for ‘Metalwork’ Category of the Week, Axisweb
2017 Call and Response, The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant, UK
2016 DUST Collective, LOOK@K’ROAD, Auckland Artweek, Auckland
2016 Kiwi Consciousness, Imago Mundi, Trieste, Italy
2016 Call and Response, Salisbury International Arts Festival, Salisbury, UK
2015 Finalist Exhibition, Celeste 7th International Contemporary Art Prize, ex-BAZZI, Milan, Italy
2015 ArtAscent, Art & Literature Journal Feature
2015 Wallace Art Awards Travelling Exhibition, Wellington & Wallace Gallery, Pataka Art + Museum
Full list of exhibitions click here
PROJECTS
2019 Contemporary Art + Ritual, Crypt Gallery, London
Co-curator and exhibiting artist – https://artandritual.wixsite.com/mysite
2016-2018 Cicatrix International Cultural Exchange, an international artists collaborative project:
http://cicatrixuk.wixsite.com/cicatrix
RESIDENCIES
2018 Cicatrix Imprime, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Canada
2016 Cicatrix Residency, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, UK
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2014 Exploring the relationship between language, sound and form, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
2013 Research in and through practice, AUT University, Auckland
2007 The Dynamic Implications of Stasis, AUT University, Auckland
THESIS
Williams, C. (2007) Masters Thesis: Drawing from Voice: An Exploration of Sound in Search of Representational Codes of the unseen. AUT University Scholarly Commons
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
The Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Luciano Benetton World Art Collection, Italy
Private collections
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Royal Society of Sculptors: MRSS
SOCIAL LINKS
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carowilliamsartist/
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/carowilliams
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/caro-williams-artist