Troy Williams
Photography: Troy Williams
Text: Troy Williams
About the Artist:
Troy Williams (1975) is an American photographer based in New York City. Williams was born in Brookings, South Dakota. He studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where he received his BFA in photography. He is the recipient of a 2003/04 MCAD/Jerome Fellowship. His murky and mystical adolescence series "I Want to Know What Love Is, I Want You to Show Me" was included in the 2006 exhibition "Anticipation" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. In 2006 he relocated to New York City where his photographic practice morphed into street portraits that are interested in heightening the enduring energy, resilience, creativity, and relentless individuality that defines modern New York City. Williams’s work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Minnesota Center for Photography in Minneapolis as well as internationally in Belgium and Germany. He received 2nd place in the 2023 LensCulture Portrait Awards for his series “VILLAGE”. His work is held in collection at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
About the Project: Village
Your beauty, strangeness, loneliness, neon twilight, confusion, wild passion, terrifying reasons, sweet surrender, childlike anarchy, youthful disdain, elder sorrow, grit and shine are on public display in your gaze. Your hands, banging and clanging, your rise to the occasion, your art, your nod to the past and your feverish plans to take on the world. You pull me in. You will live forever. Heaven and hell. New York. Be mine. Take me with you.
You can find more of his work on his website and Instagram.
