Robin F. Williams. Language Model, 2026. Oil on canvas, 60 x 54 inches (152.4 x 137.2 cm). Courtesy of Robin F. Williams and P·P·O·W, New York. © Robin F. Williams. Photography by Ian Edquist
Spotlight: Robin F. Williams
MARCH 18-APRIL 25, 2026
The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Robin F. Williams’s Language Model, 2026. A text by fiction writer Ottessa Moshfegh accompanies the presentation.
About:
Robin F. Williams (b. 1984, Columbus, OH) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Williams earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Shift, Pace Prints, New York, NY (2025); Good Mourning, PPOW, New York, NY (2024); Undying, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (2024); Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2024); Watch Yourself, Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico (2023). They have been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Enough Already: Women Artists from the Sara M.+ Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut, Wesport, CT (2025); In the Flesh, Adler Beatty, New York, NY (2025); Two by Two Together, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (2024); In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023); and Figure Fire Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL (2022). Williams is included in art collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; X Museum, Beijing, China.
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.