Tom Williams
![Tom Williams](_images/tom-williams.jpg)
Instructor, Art History
Watkins College of Art
Ph.D. State University of New York (Stony Brook), M.A. State University of New York (Stony Brook), B.A. University of West Florida
Location: Leu Center for the Visual Arts 114
thomas.williams@belmont.eduBiography
Tom Williams has taught at the School of Visual Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, New York University, and Vanderbilt University and is also a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. His writings have appeared in Art in America, Grey Room, and other publications. Williams has also co-facilitated an art workshop in Unit 2 (the Death Row unit) of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, and he has co-curated (with Robin Paris) a number of exhibitions of prisoners’ art, including Life After Death and Elsewhere at Apexart in New York City. He is also working on a book about art and mass incarceration and co-editing a book about the politics of mimicry in contemporary art.