Didier William

Overview
Didier William (b. 1983) lives and works in Philadelphia. Within his practice, William has developed a distinct and ever-morphing visual language through bold pattern making  and use of vivid color. William’s recent work largely draws on his memories of growing up in Miami after immigrating from Port-au-Prince, Haiti as a young boy. Pulling from Haitian history, language, mythology, and his personal experiences, he explores the legacies of colonialism, resistance, and the struggle for agency and identity. His work examines the relationship between formalism – his compositions combine both painting and printmaking techniques and push the limits of figuration and abstraction – and the narrative capacities of painting. William’s representation of bodies, natural and fabricated forms, and their shadows are at once resilient, sensual, and profound. Through these representations, he demonstrates a desire to uproot the constructs of the everyday and imagine a different future.
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