Robin K. Williams

Robin K. Williams is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Previously, she was Curator at The Contemporary Austin, in Texas, where she curated exhibitions including This Land (2023), Tarek Atoui: The Whisperers (2022), and Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams (2021). Prior to that, she was a Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit where she curated Daniel Dean: True Red Ruin (2018) and co-curated Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance (2017). Other appointments include curatorial fellowships at the Blanton Museum of Art and Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas. She earned a PhD in Art History from the University of Texas and taught art history courses at UT-Austin and Texas State University. She served on the public art committee for UT-Austin's Landmarks and currently serves on the public art committee for the Texas State University System.