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Didier William, Mosaic Pool, Miami, 2021, Collection of Reginald and Aliya Browne

Join the Yale Alumni Art League in partnership with Sugarcane Magazine and the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami for an In-Conversation and reception with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art, Kymberly Pinder ’89 MA, ’95 PhD and Didier William '09 MFA in celebration of the largest retrospective of his career, “Didier William: Nou Kite Tout Sa Dèyè.”

Translated as “We’ve Left That All Behind,” the show presents an in-depth look at the North Miami-raised artist’s career and memory among the very neighborhood where he once grew up.

Curated by Erica Moiah James, Ph.D, the exhibition will feature over forty works spanning multiple mediums, and including some of his newest paintings. Complementing the painted work, and speaking to the close relationship of painting and printmaking in William’s practice, are new drawings and artist books. The show also includes William’s first monumental sculpture: a 12-ft.-tall wooden body emblematic of a religious column present in Haitian worship rituals.

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Speakers

Didier William

Didier William earned his BFA in painting from The Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University, School of Art. William has exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Bronx Museum of Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Museum at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; and the Museum of the African Diaspora; San Francisco, CA, among others. His work has received critical recognition from The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, Harpers Magazine, New York Magazine and Art In America. William was a 2020 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and has taught at several institutions including Yale School of Art, Vassar College, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania and SUNY Purchase. He is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Didier William lives and works in Philadelphia.

Dr. Kymberly Pinder

Dr. Kymberly Pinder is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the Yale School of Art and Professor of Art. As a scholar and a curator, Dr. Pinder teaches, writes and lectures on representations of religion, history and race in American Art, and has authored multiple books on the subject, most recently Painting the Gospel: Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago. She is also the editor of Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. Her curatorial projects include "Necessary Force: Art of the Police State" and "Spreading the Gospel: Graffiti and the Public Space as Canvas." As a mural scholar, Dr. Pinder has always been committed to community engagement and interdisciplinary initiatives. Working with different artists and local officials, she has taught courses that have led to the creation of murals in Chicago and Albuquerque. Previously, she was Provost and Senior Vice President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Dean of Fine Arts and the museum director at University of New Mexico, and a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.