Photo: Mengwen Cao.
Born 1983, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Didier William earned his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University, School of Art. He was an artist in residence at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Brooklyn, NY and has taught at several institutions including Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, UPenn and SUNY Purchase. He is currently Assistant Professor of Expanded Print at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His work has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of Art, The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, The Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco among others. Didier William is the recipient of the 2018 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.