CV - Fletcher Williams III (2026)
Education
The Cooper Union: For The Advancement of Science & Art, New York, NY | BFA, 2010
Solo Exhibitions
American Liturgy — Historic Navy Yard, North Charleston, SC, 2025
When It Rains It Shines — International African American Museum, 2023
Promise Land — Historic Charleston Foundation Aiken-Rhett House, Charleston, SC, 2020
Traces — 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC, 2018
City Block — Reynolds Avenue Historic Fire Station, North Charleston, SC, 2017
Beyond The Rainbow — Cannon Street Arts Center, Charleston, SC, 2016
Souvenir — Spring Street Alternative Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2015
Coruscus: Intro to the Embellishments — Rivington Design House, New York, NY, 2011
Scripture & Gold — Coming Street Alternative Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2011
Group Exhibitions
South Arts — Grantee Traveling Exhibition, 2021-2022
Hodges Taylor Gallery — Still Contemporary, 2020
Mint Museum Uptown — Coined in the South, 2020
TRAX Visual Art Center / Jones-Carter Gallery — Nature Nurture, 2019
City Gallery — Posing Possibilities, 2017
Gateway Project Spaces — With Liberty and (In)justice for All?, 2016
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts — OFF WHITE, 2016
Mann-Simons Site — Route to Resettlement, 2016
McKissick Museum — Southern Rhythms, 2015
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego — Exhibition, 2015
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute — H(A)UNTED, 2012
440 Gallery — Small Works, 2012
The Cooper Union — Powers That Be, 2010
Public Collections
International Slavery Museum, 2025
International African American Museum, 2023
South Carolina Aeronautical Training Center, 2021
701 Center for Contemporary Art — Mill District Public Art Trail, 2021
Gibbes Museum of Art, 2020
Davidson College, 2020
Residency
Gibbes Museum of Art — Visiting Artist Residency, Charleston, SC, 2019
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
South Arts — Southern Prize State Fellow, 2021
Griffith-Reyburn Foundation — Artist of the Lowcountry Grant, 2018
The Dean Collection — 20 St(art)-Ups Grant, 2018
Art Matters Foundation — Grant Recipient, 2015
Special Projects
International African American Museum — Public Art Installation (Permanent), 2023
Spoleto Festival USA — Dock Street Theatre Chamber Music Backdrop for Bank of America Series, 2022
Thresh & Hold — Book Cover Artwork for Marlanda Dekine Debut Poetry Collection, 2021
701 Center for Contemporary Art — Mill District Public Art Trail, Permanent Public Art Installation, 2021
The Underground Railroad — Artwork Installation & Set Decoration, Savannah, GA, 2019
Public Art Installation — Multi-site NOTICE Sign Revision, Charleston, SC, 2018
Reviews & Interviews
Charleston Library Society — “Fletcher Williams III Talks Art as Storytelling with Jessica Mischner,” 2023
Effin B Radio — “Episode 264: When It Rains, It Shines with Fletcher Williams III,” 2023
Burnaway — “In the Studio with Fletcher Williams III” by JD Ellison, 2022
Veranda — “Joy Moyler Sits Down with Fletcher Williams III to Discuss the Importance of Socially Engaged Art,” 2020
The Post and Courier — “Charleston Soul-Searchers: Now Is the Time to Listen to Your Artists,” 2020
The Post and Courier — “Review: For Artist Fletcher Williams III, a White Picket Fence Is a National Divide,” 2020
Charleston City Paper — “Fletcher Williams Has an Idea to Give Palmetto Rose Artisans the Recognition They Deserve,” 2019
Charleston City Paper — “Fletcher Williams III, Coastal Community Foundation’s Artist of the Year Debuts ‘Homestead’,” 2019
The Chronicle — “Fletcher Williams Completes Latest Sculpture,” 2018
Tableaux — “Charleston: An Insider’s Guide,” 2018
The Wall Street Journal — “America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track: Beyond New York and London,” 2018
Charleston City Paper — “Vice’s Amuse Highlights 10 S.C. Artists to Watch Including Three from Charleston,” 2017
Art Mag — “10 Artists Shaping the Arts in Charleston,” p.13, 2017
BOMB Magazine — “A Tale of Two Charlestons,” Exhibition Review, 2017
VICE — “AMUSE: 10 South Carolina Artists You Need to Know,” 2017
North Charleston Magazine — “North Charleston Arts Fest Features Hometown Artist Fletcher Williams III,” 2017
Charleston City Paper — “Fletcher Williams III’s City Block Delves Deeper Into His Own Life,” 2017
The Post and Courier — “North Charleston Arts Fest Concentrates Bounty Into Five Full Days,” 2017
The New York Times — “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” 2016
Charleston Magazine — “Weaving Past & Present,” 2016
Charleston City Paper — “Is Charleston Listening?”, 2015
CBC Radio — “Episode Three: The Riches of Teeth,” 2015
The Post and Courier — “Crime, Culture, Race, and History,” 2015
HYCIDE Magazine — “Review of New Works Examining Hip-Hop Culture,” 2013
Art Voices Magazine — H(A)UNTED, 2012
Bibliography
Jerry Siegel, At This Moment: Portraits of South Carolina Artists, 2025
Fletcher Williams III, Westward, in Thresh & Hold by Marlanda Dekine, Hub City Press, Front Cover, 2022
Urban Electric. June 2021 Catalog. The Current, Vol. 3, “Portrait of an Artist as a Man,” pp. 202–215, 2021
Fletcher Williams III, Homestead, 2016. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Predatory Inclusion,” N+1, No. 35 Savior Complex, p. 92, 2019
Rowell, Charles Henry. “An Interview with Fletcher Williams III.” Callaloo Journal, Vol. 39.4, pp. 788–796, 2016
Fletcher Williams III. Essay and Artworks. The Liberator Magazine, Issue 26, pp. 70–74, 2012
Community Engagement & Partnerships
Fundraising & Artwork Donations
Artwork Donation — The Branch Museum of Design, Mad Hatter Annual Fundraiser, 2026
Artwork Donation — Artist for Emanuel Fundraiser, Charleston, SC, 2015
Artwork Donation — Back Stage Pass: Trident Technical College Arts Division Fundraiser, 2015
Artwork Donation — Preservation Society of Charleston Honoring Grandsons of Philip Simmons, 2015
Outreach & Advocacy
Student Mural at Sanders Clyde Elementary, 2017
Guest Presenter — Wando High School Visual Art Department, 2016
Guest Reader — Cynthia Graham Hurd Memorial Freedom School Summer Program, 2016
Student Art Exhibition Guest Juror — Wando High School, 2016
Black History Month Series Guest Speaker — St. John’s High School, 2016
James Simmons Elementary Career Day Visual Arts Advocate, 2015
Career Day Visual Arts Advocate — Memminger Elementary, 2015
Visual Arts Advocate — Stono Park Elementary, 2015
Guest Judge — Charleston Trident Urban League Fair Housing Poster Contest, 2015
Public Art & Cultural Partnerships
South Carolina Ports Authority — Public Art for SCPA Corporate Headquarters, 2019
Cannon Street Art Center — Palmetto Rose Medallion Light Fixture, 2019
Lowcountry Local First — Public Art for #LoveALocal, 2017
MOJA Arts Festival, 2016
Colour of Music Festival, 2015