LG Williams | Artist, Writer & Publisher

Catalog

ARTWORK HIGHLIGHTS

21 entries 1985 – 2025 · SELECTED WORKS VIEW ALL HIGHLIGHTS

Mission Accomplished no.28

2025, Dimensions Variable, Colors Variable, Custom Vinyl Signage, Grommets, Rope and Fasteners

Even More Gauling #12

2025, Dimensions Variable, Vinyl Lettering on Wall

The Cataclysmic Eclipse Of Luminary Resilience

2025, 74 × 70″, Oil on Canvas

Visuality and Essence in the Minor League Artistic Imaginary #24

2025, Dimensions Variable, Custom Vinyl Transfer

The Silence of LG Williams Is Underestimated

2025, 30 × 60″, Reflective Ink on Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminium

Read The Press Release

2024, Dimensions Variable, Vinyl Lettering on Wall

Selection of Images from ‘100 Black Artists’

2023, Dimensions Variable, C-Print on Card

How Do You Like Me Now?

2021, 72 × 50″, Chromogenic Print

The SoCal Mid-Rise Multi-Story Painting Series

2015–16 · Painting series · Laguna Art Museum exhibition

For Sale By Artist

2010–14, 30 × 30″, Vinyl and Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminum

Broad / The Eli and Edythe Broad Affair

2011, Eli and Edythe Broad with their 2011 purchase, Cracked But OK!

I Can See The Whole Room! And There’s No Art In It!

2011, 48 × 48″, Vinyl and Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminum

House Where The Bottom Fell Out

2007–09, Suspended House with Entire Floor Removed, Wailuku, HI

Bankrupt

2004, 90 × 140″, Vinyl and Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminum

Art For The Sports Generation (Mona Lisa)

2004–05, 40 × 30″, Vinyl and Engineer Grade Reflective Sheeting on Heavy-Duty Aluminum

LG Art Security Services

2003, Performance, Di Rosa Art Preserve

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1999, 70 × 90″, Mixed Media on Canvas

Windy City

1995, 63 × 84″, Mixed Media on Paper Mounted on Canvas

Raging Succubi

1994, 30 × 40″, Charcoal on Paper

Spring

1987, 60 × 60″, Charcoal on Paper

Money, Milieu, and Militia

1985, 30 × 50″, Mixed Media on Wood

§ 01 / Projects

LANDMARK PROJECTS

10 PROJECTS

§ 02 / Press

SELECTED PRESS

1999–2026 · VIEW ALL PRESS

§ 03 / Substack

Read on Substack

50 ARTICLES · READ ON SUBSTACK

§ 04 / Ads

RECENT ADVERTISEMENTS

2018–2025 · 21 ENTRIES

“Duct Taped Cuckoo Clock”

UCLA Daily Bruin · June 10, 2024

“LG Williams: Marfa Invitational 2025”

Big Bend Sentinel · May 14, 2025

“Hold On – Just Give Me a Minute”

UCLA Daily Bruin · May 22, 2024

“It’s Better to Be Mediocre #2”

UCLA Daily Bruin · February 28, 2024

“The Big Board”

Artforum Magazine · February 2024

“Party Every Night”

UCLA Daily Bruin · January 24, 2024

“Hollow Subjects Hollow Representations”

Artforum Magazine · December 2023

“Artist / Fix-It Man”

The Brooklyn Rail · December 2023

“[Floor Creaking]” with Dr. Bryan Reynolds

UCLA Daily Bruin · November 20, 2023

“Pick Your Preferred Post-Critical Platitudes”

The Brooklyn Rail · October 2023

“Devils of Contemporary Art”

Artforum Magazine · September 2023

“The Development of Expertise in the Visual Arts”

The Brooklyn Rail · July/August 2023

“Thank You Millionaires! Thank You Billionaires!”

The Brooklyn Rail · May 2023

“The Art Fairs: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints”

The Brooklyn Rail · March 2023

“For Your Consideration: House Where The Bottom Fell Out”

Artforum Magazine · February 2023

“Amounts to Nothing: The Fucked-Up Figure Paintings”

The Brooklyn Rail · December/January 2023

“PCP Press 1997–2022”

Artforum Magazine · December 2022

“Bankrupt or $0.00”

Artforum Magazine · September 2022

“A Long Time Coming”

Artforum Magazine · February 2022

“The Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist In Residence” at The Lodge, Hollywood

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA) · 2018

Leonardo To LG In LA (with Alice Lodge and The LODGE)

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA) · 2018

§ 05 / Samizdat

SELECTED SAMIZDAT

VIEW ALL SAMIZDAT

§ 06 / Video

MICROSITES AND TOOLS

6 TOOLS

§ 08 / About

MEET LG WILLIAMS

Beverly Hills · Waikiki — FULL BIO

LG Williams · Forrest Solis Exhibition · Jamie Brooks Fine Art · 2016

"I consult for governments on how to appear ethical while accelerating collapse."
"I'm a liquidity pool for intellectual disaffection."
"Wealth is a measure of how well you've gamed collapse."
"The artist no longer functions as visionary, but as symptom — lubricated and complicit, whispering to the abyss in 4K."
"I am a self-liquidating governance node posing as a person. And the art? It's just the alibi."

Read the full Voyage LA interview ↗︎

"STOP SENDING ME THIS DRIVEL."
— Dr. Amelia Jones, Vice Dean of Faculty & Research Director, Performance Studies Grad Certificate, USC Roski School of Art and Design · 2025

"The true history of the real SF counter culture is about community and mutual support — not extracting or twisting narratives to build [LG Williams'] own myth…"
— A Renowned San Francisco Art Historian · 2025

"Funny thing, come to think of it, the person who had the biggest impact on my life never claimed credit."
— Julia Friedman · 2018

"LG Williams is the artist to watch."
— Julia Friedman, Modern Luxury Orange County Magazine · 2017

"[LG] can do the inhuman."
— Forrest Solis, Associate Director, School of Art, Arizona State University · 2016

"LG Williams is the "pretty-darn-important" American artist that you've probably never heard of."
— Jenna Duncan, Java Magazine · 2013

"The real and fictional works of artist LG Williams defy categorization…"
— Peter Yeah, Glass Magazine · 2012

"An engagement with Williams' protean practice reveals an all-pervasive interplay between comments on reality and the construction of fictional worlds… inviting us to consider them, without losing its relevance in its own right."
— THOMAS FRANGENBERG, ANTHOLOGY: 1985–2012

"Amongst the sleepy, blue-chip artists, LG Williams's art wakes up [the viewer] with his impertinence."
— Rocco Moliterni, La Stampa · 2011

"LG you're next: Run LG Run!"
— Wally Hedrick · 2001