WILLIAMS, D'Angelo Lovell

About the US photographer, D’Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS (b. 1992, in Jackson, Mississippi)

D’Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS earned a BFA in photography from Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee in 2015 and in 2018 a MFA in art photography from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
In their work they how a space of exploration for Black and queer bodies, whose narrative has too often been obscured by white storytelling. The book 'Contact High' explores queer Black communities that they feels a part of. D’Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS appears in the majority of the photographs with a cast of supporting characters. According to Ravi Ghosh writing for i-D, 'a few distinct features stand out: the variety of full-body poses, the connection to the land and vegetation, the air of self-destruction. Their unbroken stare into the camera becomes this set's defining quality.' Marigold Warner writes in the British Journal of Photography that 'the images are layered with meanings relating to queerness, Blackness, gender, history and Williams' own experiences. [. . .] These dichotomies exist throughout their images: sex and violence; power and subservience; control and chaos; ecstasy and pain', of which D'Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS says 'A lot of our narratives haven't been our own as Black queer people, and that's what I wanted to get at.' D’Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS now live in Brooklyn, NY.

Photo books by and with works by D’Angelo Lovell WILLIAMS

  • 'D’Angelo Lovell Williams Zine' (2018)
    'Only in America' (2018)
    'Young Gifted And Black: A New Generation of Artists' (2020, together with LaToya Ruby FRAZIER, Deana LAWSON, Stacy Lynn WADDELL a.o.)
    'Contact High' (2022)

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WILLIAMS, D'Angelo Lovell - Contact High
WILLIAMS, D'Angelo Lovell - Contact High
The photographs by D'Angelo WILLIAMS in his volume 'Contact High' visualize the black body in theatrical, dance, and occasionally everyday scenes. The intimate images focus on notions of kinship and spirituality interwoven with quiet political gestures.
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Solo Exhibitions
  • 2014: 'Structural Dishonesty', Cooper Walker Place, Memphis
    2015: 'Beauty Kings', SALTQuarters Gallery, Syracuse, NY
    2016: Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse
    2017: 'D’Angelo Williams', Higher Pictures, New York
    2018: 'Only In America', Higher Pictures, New York,
    2019: 'Extensions', Higher Pictures, New York
    2020: 'Papa Don’t Preach' & 'Higher Pictures', Janice Guy Space, New York
Group Exhibitions (a selection)
  • 2012: 'Brinkley Plaza Student Exhibition', Brinkley Plaza, Memphis, TN
    2013: 'Juried Exhibition', 1700 Gallery, Memphis
    2014: 'Color Space: Contemporary Photography', Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR; 'Contemporary Youth', Dossier Outpost, Human NYC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 'The Ones We Love', Atelier de KoekKoek, Vienna & at Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, IA; 'Juried Exhibition', Gallery Fifty-Six, Memphis
    2015: 'Ver de Livre', GLITCH, Memphis; 'Sunset Club: Senior Photography Thesis Exhibition', Crosstown Arts, Memphis; 'Exhibition Momentum', Juried Group Exhibition, Memphis; 'On Beauty', The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO; 'The Ones We Love', Camden Image Gallery, London
    2016: 'Our Own Table', Random Access Gallery, Syracuse; 'Queering Space', Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; 'What Keeps You Up At Night?', SPE Multi-Cultural Caucus Exhibition, The Arts at CIIS
    California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco; 'The Bright Invisible', Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; '[/dis /]', Random Access, Syracuse
    2017: 'Gendered', The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; 'Tools and Symbols', Fort Houston Gallery, Nashville, TN; 'Newspaper Magazine', Atlanta Edition, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
    2019: 'Permutations', Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD; 'Young Gifted And Black', OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY; 'Subject (Unequal To) Object', 2019 En Foco Fellows, Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY; 'Embodied', FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; 'Colour Somewhere', Hutcheson Gallery, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
    2020: 'Public Art Fund Exhibition', The 5 Boroughs
    Ever-Present Presence, ACRE Residency Exhibition; 'Young Gifted And Black', Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx
    2021: 'Black American Portraits', LACMA, Los Angeles; 'Young Gifted And Black', Gallery 400, Chicago, IL; 'On The Road: Chocolate Cities', TONE Memphis; 'Downtown 2021', La MaMa Galleria, New York
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