Christopher Williams (American artist)

Christopher Williams (born 1956, Los Angeles) is an American conceptual artist and fine art photographer. He lives in Cologne and works in Düsseldorf.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, he studied at the California Institute of the Arts where he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. under the first generation of West Coast conceptual artists including John Baldessari,Douglas Huebler, and Michael Asher. Since October 2008 he has been a professor in photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His wife is curator and former Stedelijk Museum director Ann Goldstein.

Writing in Artforum in 2007, art critic Tim Griffin described Williams's approach as "sociophotographic." It has been said that Williams works within the tradition of institutional critique within what Sven Lütticken describes as an informal group, along with Willem de Rooij, Jeroen de Rijke and Mathias Poledna, that investigates the "parameters of the exhibition space." Chronologically, however, he belongs to the Pictures Generation, whose members include Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, James Welling and Louise Lawler. In 1982 Williams had his first solo exhibition at Jancar Kuhlenschmidt Gallery in Los Angeles.

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