Janean Williams' videos, performances, photography, and installations are reactions to feeling trapped at home and in rural spaces. Her preoccupations are born out of her grandmother's institutionalization, her mother's odd and inappropriate stories recounted at the family dinner table, dark country and western songs in which boys jumped off bridges, drunk men felt sorry for themselves, and women bore children, poverty, and shiftless men, her grandfather’s true crime magazines, and good ol' Appalachian culture.
Ms. Williams was born and raised in southwestern Virginia. She received her MFA in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She has a bachelor’s in international studies from Hollins University.
Ms. Williams was born and raised in southwestern Virginia. She received her MFA in photography at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She has a bachelor’s in international studies from Hollins University.