Fabian Williams is a future-minded visual and performance artist whose work explores themes of Black liberation, innovation, and joy. Atlanta-based and Fayetteville, NC-born, Williams employs a broad scope of source material — commercial illustration, classic portraiture, hip hop, and civil rights iconography — to directly confront issues of race and society’s consumption and appropriation of every facet of Black culture.
Fabian has been featured in The Guardian, BBC, L.A. Times, New York Times, Playboy, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, SB Nation, Bloomberg, The Root, and various media outlets for his bold work and activism. Before he became a full-time artist, he worked as a lowly designer and eventually a hard-hearted art director in the advertising industry for brands like Nike, American Express, Pennzoil, and Verizon where he learned the dark arts of persuasion. He co-created the #Kaeperbowl mural campaign during Super Bowl 53 and was involved in the Big Facts Small Acts campaign to engage with disenfranchised communities on how to stay healthy during the pandemic. He recently exhibited work in his solo exhibition entitled Sign of the Times.