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Born in Los Angeles in 1956 and deceased in San Francisco in 2024, Williams was the Godfather of both the San Francisco New Mission School and the Global Stencil Pirate movement. Williams was the leading pioneer in the painterly expansion of stencil and airbrush media. The relentless intensity of William’s artwork compels one to see the way he saw, to think the way he thought; his drawings draw you into his own parallel universe which even his death does not extinguish. Williams’ work is pan-American in its roots and unique to California culture. It’s a hybrid mix of both Catholic and indigenous Mexican paper-cutting techniques, street art and graffiti bravado, with the intelligence and sardonic commentary of Jose Guadalupe Posada, and the heat of modern Chicano aesthetics (Williams lived in the Mission District of San Francisco for about 40 years). Throw in some beat, punk, and psychedelic San Francisco influences and you have an exceptionally original and potent aesthetic vernacular. Obit.

Press Name: Scott Williams

In Collection:

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts / Graphic Arts Council

Watch Your Step

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Watch Your SheepPattern

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Bibliothèque d'art et d'archéologie de Genève, Switzterland

Streetopia (the book)

Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg

Watch Your Step

Boston Athenaeum

Amerika CupWatch Your StepHorses West

Bowdoin College

Collect Call from the Spirit World

California College of Art (CCA)

Streetopia (the book)

Chapman University

Collect Call from the Spirit WorldStreetopia (the book)Gemstone FeverHorses West

College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF)

Streetopia (the book)Opo-Cop The People

Florida Atlantic University (FAU), The Jaffe Book Arts Collection

Watch Your StepCuek Street

Franklin and Marshall College

Streetopia (the book)

Getty Research Institute

Streetopia (the book)

Grinnell College

Streetopia (the book)

Harvard University Art Museums

Gemstone Fever

Harvard University, Widener Library

Lafayette College

Collect Call from the Spirit WorldWatch Your StepHorses West

Library of Congress (LoC)

Amerika CupWatch Your Step

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Watch Your Step

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA)

Streetopia (the book)

School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts

Mission Future Pattern 415

Scripps College, Denison Library

Smith College Museum of Art

Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Room

Free Pussy Riot

St. Olaf College

The Booklyn Bridge #8

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek

Collect Call from the Spirit WorldWatch Your StepHorses West

Stanford University

Collect Call from the Spirit WorldAmerika CupWatch Your Step

Temple University

Streetopia (the book)

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

Streetopia (the book)Gemstone Fever

Tufts University

Portrait Collage Stencil Sketchbook

University of California, Berkeley (UCB), The Bancroft Library

A Simple RomanceCollect Call from the Spirit WorldStreetopia (the book)

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Amerika CupWatch Your StepGemstone Fever

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Collect Call from the Spirit WorldTeluk Skank

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Hammer Museum

Streetopia (the book)

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)

University of Central Florida (UCF)

Streetopia (the book)

University of Connecticut (UCONN)

AnimalsCollect Call from the Spirit WorldStreetopia (the book)

University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art

Graffiti Saved My Life

University of Minnesota

Amerika CupWatch Your Step

University of Nevada, Reno

Gemstone Fever

University of Southern California (USC)

Amerika CupHorses West

University of Vermont

Bang! Prokemem Gile’

Wesleyan University

The Booklyn Bridge #7

Yale University, Beinecke Library

Streetopia (the book)

Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library