CV - Fletcher Williams III (2026)

The Cooper Union: For The Advancement of Science & Art, New York, NY | BFA, 2010

250 Years from Mr. Freedman — Navy Yard Charleston, North Charleston, SC, 2026
American Liturgy — Navy Yard Charleston, North Charleston, SC, 2025
When It Rains It Shines — International African American Museum, Charleston, SC, 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

South Arts 2021 Southern Prize & State Fellows Exhibition — Traveling exhibition: Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA; 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Columbia, SC; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; City Gallery, Charleston, SC; UCF Art Gallery, Orlando, FL, 2021–2022
Coined in the South — Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC, 2020
With Liberty and (In)justice for All? — Gateway Project Spaces, Newark, NJ, 2016
OFF WHITE — Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
Route to (re)settlement — Mann-Simons Site, Columbia, SC, 2016
Art from the Collection of Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman — SDSU Downtown Gallery / San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art, San Diego, CA, 2015
Southern Rhythms — McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC, 2015
H(A)UNTED — Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY, 2012
Coruscus: Intro to the Embellishments — Rivington Design House, New York, NY, 2011

Current — Permanent public art installation, International African American Museum, Charleston, SC, 2023
Dusk — Chamber music backdrop, Spoleto Festival USA, Bank of America Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, SC, 2022
Refraction — Permanent public art commission, South Carolina Aeronautical Training Center, North Charleston, SC, 2021
Cathedral — Permanent public art commission,701 Center for Contemporary Art — Mill District Public Art Trail, Columbia, SC, 2021
The Underground Railroad — Artwork installation and set decoration, Savannah, GA, 2019
NOTICE — Multi-site public art installation, Charleston, SC, 2018

My Modern Met — “Artist Transforms Rusted Tin Roof Salvaged From Charleston Fire Into American Iconography,” by Sage Helene, 2026
Charleston Library Society — “Fletcher Williams III Talks Art as Storytelling with Jessica Mischner,” 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 — “Review: For Artist Fletcher Williams III, a White Picket Fence Is a National Divide,” 2020
The Wall Street Journal — “America’s Art Scenes Off the Beaten Track: Beyond New York and London,” 2018
BOMB Magazine — “A Tale of Two Charlestons,” exhibition review, 2017
VICE — “AMUSE: 10 South Carolina Artists You Need to Know,” 2017
The New York Times — “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week,” 2016
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

Jerry Siegel, At This Moment: Portraits of South Carolina Artists, 2025.
Fletcher Williams III, Westward, in Marlanda Dekine, Thresh & Hold, Hub City Press, front cover, 2022.
Fletcher Williams III, Homestead, 2016, reproduced in Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Predatory Inclusion,” n+1, No. 35, Savior Complex, p. 92, 2019.
Charles Henry Rowell, “An Interview with Fletcher Williams III,” Callaloo, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 788–796, 2016.
Fletcher Williams III, essay and artworks, The Liberator Magazine, Issue 26, pp. 70–74, 2012.