Bio:
Scott Eric Williams is a visual arts practitioner from Cape Town, South Africa. (b. 1980)

Williams contributes to the visual arts landscape as a visual artist, youth educator, curator, writer, and scholar. Williams is an Andrew Mellon award fellow (2019) and JP Morgan Abadali award winning artist (2022) Williams is educated predominantly via an alternate curriculum structured through residencies and workshops such as Joule City - Cape Town (2013), Openlab -Free State Art Festival, Bloemfontein, South Africa (2016) and Situate Lab, Tasmania (2018). He has exhibited and performed at The Free State Art Festival, Gallery MOMO, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, ICA online Fellowship, UCT Michaelis & the Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch – amongst others. As a founding member of the collective Burning Museum, he has exhibited at The Centre for African Studies (University of Cape Town), Brundyn+, Kunsthaus Dresden and on the streets of Cape Town. More recently he has exhibited with WHATIFTHEWORLD, ROAM (Massachusetts) and The Alliance Francaise, Cape Town. His other work includes Youth Facilitation at The District Six Museum and others, as well as writing for various print & online platforms. Currently Williams is a master’s candidate at The University of Stellenbosch researching socially engaged forms of youth arts education within the informal sector.

Williams contributes to research on African fashion cultures as a research fellow of the African Fashion Research Institute.