Rez Williams is a painter who lives and works on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, four miles off the southeast coast of Massachusetts. Exhibitions ONE-PERSON EXHIBITS 2013 A Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA 2012 A Gallery, Martha's Vineyard, MA 2011 Shephard Fine ArtSpace, Martha's Vineyard, MA 2008 Nye Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 2007 Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 2001 New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA, “Working Boats: Portraits from a Fishing Harbor” 1994-2001 Etherington Fine Art, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 1999 Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME, “Steel Walls & Waterlines” 1990-1993 Field Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 1988 Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ 1988 Gay Head Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 1980-1988 Artworkers’ Guild Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA GROUP EXHIBITS 2006 Carol Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA 2006 New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA, “Inviting Response” Professional Experience 2014 Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co. Mayo, Ireland 1995-present Ongoing exploration of New Bedford’s working waterfront 1996 Working trip to Venice, Italy, culminating in a series of cityscapes 1996, 1988 Falmouth Artists’ Guild, Falmouth, MA, Judge, annual exhibition 1984 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Residency culminating in a series of landscapes 1966-1975 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ, Assistant Professor Fine Arts 1970-1971 Arts Magazine, New York, NY, Gallery Reviewer 1966-1968 Institute of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY, installation and cataloguing of exhibition material