Scholar • Artist • Organizer • Critic
Luke Williams is a scholar, artist, organizer, and critic of twentieth and twenty-first century Black performance and visual cultures. His work, which spans embodiment, racial capitalism, and the aesthetics of the Black radical imagination, focuses on Black Diasporic art in the Americas and broader Atlantic world. Luke earned his PhD in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. His dissertation, In the Black: Figures of Racial Capitalism examines the practices of four Black emerging artists in the California Bay Area as they navigate the pressures of racial capitalism in the art market.
Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin.
Events
Upcoming:
8/26 Teaching TD 311C - Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin
Current:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UT Austin
Past:
6/15 Stanford University PhD Graduation Ceremony
5/29 Blood, Sweat, and Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell with Jacqueline Francis at MoAD
3/9 Guest Lecture in “Art and the Market” with Andrei Pesic at Stanford University
2/15 CAA Conference Presentation: “Stuart V. Robertson’s Protective Portraits: Speculating on a Contested Black Future,”
2/8 In conversation with Delita Martin and Tawny Chatmon, Museum of the African Diaspora
Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of the African Diaspora - Salimatu Amabebe, SON
1/9 - 6/15 Teaching - Cultures and Ideas I & II (Santa Clara University)
Adrian Burrell: Sugarcane and Lightning (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art)
Mildred Howard: The Time and Space of Now (San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art)