Biography

Moses lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a professor of sculpture and intermedia at the University of Utah. Moses received a BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, TN, and an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

He has exhibited and performed throughout the United States and Europe, including Apexart – New York, SeelenArt Galerie, Munich, The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Das KloHäuschen Art Center, Der Kulturanker Magdeburg, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Zeihersmith Pop-up Gallery, and David B Smith Gallery. Moses has collaborated with The Nashville Ballet and Alias Chamber Ensemble, and with the residents of Unit 2 (the Death Row unit) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, TN on a project with multiple exhibitions spanning several years.

Artist Statement

Williams’ is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture, performance, video, and sound. His art practice considers the inseparable relationship between cognitive and material experience as it is lived in and through the body. From this perspective, he explores themes of sensuality, beauty, longing, and the abject through ritual acts in performance and the generation of “empathetic” objects. He encourages a sacred respect for the material earth and its inhabitants, challenging colonial histories, mechanized thought, and western epistemological precepts. Turning to embodied phenomenology and Indigenous practices that reflect our interdependence with the material earth, he re-contextualizes objects, materials, and actions to suggest alternative systems of logic, a way of future dreaming to create new narratives of possibility.