commissioning and editing

From 1994-2005 Williams was Editor and Commissioning Editor (from 1997-2005) for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press. There she edited some 50+ monographs in the ‘Contemporary Artists Series’:

“The boldest, best executed, and most far-reaching publishing project devoted to contemporary art. These books will revolutionize the way contemporary art is presented and written about.”—Artforum

“The combination of intelligent analysis, personal insight, useful facts and plentiful pictures is a superb format invaluable for specialists but also interesting for casual readers, it makes these books a must for the library of anyone who cares about contemporary art.”—Time Out

“A unique series of informative monographs on individual artists.”—The Sunday Times

“Gives the reader the impression of a personal encounter with the artists. Apart from the writing which is lucid and illuminating, it is undoubtedly the wealth of lavish illustrations which makes looking at these books a satisfying entertainment.”—The Art Book

At Phaidon, Williams also oversaw the ‘Themes and Movements’ series, and created + commissioned the cream series of biennials-in-a-book, 1998-2003. Other commissioned projects include Salon to Biennale: Exhibitions that Made Art History (ed. Bruce Altshuler), Gordon Matta-Clark (Thomas Crow, Corinne Disernes, Judith Russi Kirschner, Christian Kravagna) and Robert Mangold (Arthur C. Danto, Robert Storr, Richard Shiff, Nancy Princenthal, Sylvia Plimack Mangold).

contemporary artists series (as commissioning editor)

Vito Acconci
Survey: Frazer Ward | Interview: Mark C. Taylor | Focus: Jennifer Bloomer

Doug Aitken
Survey: Daniel Birnbaum | Interview: Amanda Sharp | Focus: Jörg Heiser

Francis Alÿs
Survey: Cuauhtémoc Medina | Interview: Russell Ferguson | Focus: Jean Fisher

Uta Barth
Survey: Pamela M. Lee | Interview: Matthew Higgs | Focus: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Louise Bourgeois
Survey: Robert Storr | Interview: Paolo Herkenhoff | Focus: Alan Schwartzman

Cai Guo Qiang
Survey: Dana Friis-Hansen | Interview: Octavio Zaya | Focus: Takashi Serizawa

Maurizio Cattelan
Survey: Francesco Bonami | Interview: Nancy Spector | Focus: Barbara Vanderlinden | Update (2nd edition): Massimiliano Gioni

Vija Celmins
Survey: Lane Relyea | Interview: Robert Gober | Focus: Briony Fer

Tacita Dean
Survey: Jean-Christophe Royoux | Interview: Marina Warner | Focus: Germaine Greer

Mark Dion
Survey: Lisa Graziose Corrin | Interview: Miwon Kwon | Focus: Norman Bryson

Peter Doig
Survey: Adrian Searle | Interview: Kitty Scott | Focus: Catherine Grenier

Stan Douglas
Survey: Scott Watson | Interview: Diana Thater | Focus: Carol Clover

Marlene Dumas
Survey: Domenic van den Boogerd | Interview: Barbara Bloom | Focus: Mariuccia Casadio

Olafur Eliasson
Survey: Madeleine Grynsztejn | Interview: Daniel Birnbaum | Focus: Michael Speaks

Fischli and Weiss
Survey: Robert Fleck | Interview: Beate Söntgen | Focus: Arthur C Danto

Tom Friedman
Survey: Bruce Hainley | Interview: Dennis Cooper | Focus: Adrian Searle

Isa Genzken
Survey: Alex Farquarson | Interview: Diedrich Diederichsen | Focus: Sabine Breitwieser

Dan Graham
Survey: Birgit Pelzer | Interview: Mark Francis | Focus: Beatriz Colomina

Hans Haacke
Survey: Walter Grasskamp | Interview: Molly Nesbit | Focus: Jon Bird

Thomas Hirschhorn
Survey: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh | Interview: Alison M. Gingeras | Focus: Carlos Basualdo

Roni Horn
Survey: Louise Neri | Interview: Lynne Cooke | Focus: Thierry de Duve

Ilya Kabakov
Survey: Boris Groys | Interview: David A. Ross | Focus: Iwonz Blazwick

Alex Katz
Survey: Carter Ratcliff | Interview: Robert Storr | Focus: Iwonz Blazwick

Mike Kelley
Survey: John Welchman | Interview: Isabelle Graw | Focus: Anthony Vidler

On Kawara
Survey: Jonathan Watkins | Interview: ‘Tribute’ | Focus: Rene Denizot

William Kentridge
Survey: Dan Cameron | Interview: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev | Focus: J.M. Coetzee

Yayoi Kusama
Survey: Laura Hoptman | Interview: Akira Tatehata | Focus: Udo Kulturmann

Christian Marclay
Survey: Jennifer Gonzalez | Interview: Kim Gordon | Focus: Matthew Higgs

Paul McCarthy
Survey: Ralph Rugoff | Interview: Kristine Stiles | Focus: Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

Cildo Meireles
Survey: Paolo Herkenhoff | Interview: Gerardo Mosquera | Focus: Dan Cameron

Lucy Orta
Survey: Roberto Pinto | Interview: Nicholas Bourriaud | Focus: Maia Damianovic

Raymond Pettibon
Survey: Robert Storr| Interview: Dennis Cooper | Focus: Ulrich Loock

Richard Prince
Survey: Rosetta Brooks | Interview: Jeff Rian | Focus: Luc Sante

Pipilotti Rist
Survey: Peggy Phelan| Interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist | Focus: Elizabeth Bronfen

Anri Sala
Survey: Mark Godfrey | Interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist | Focus: Liam Gillick

Doris Salcedo
Survey: Nancy Princenthal | Interview: Carlos Basualdo | Focus: Andreas Huyssen

Roman Signer
Survey: Gerhard Mack | Interview: Paula van den Bosch | Focus: Jeremy Millar

Lorna Simpson
Survey: Kelly Jones | Interview: Thelma Golden | Focus: Chrissie Iles

Wolfgang Tillmans
Survey: Jan Verwoert | Interview: Peter Halley | Focus: Midori Mitsuro

Luc Tuymans
Survey: Ulrich Loock | Interview: Juan Vicente Aliaga | Focus: Nancy Spector | Update (2nd edition): Hans Rudolf Reust

Gillian Wearing
Survey: Russell Ferguson | Interview: Donna De Salvo | Focus: John Slyce

Franz West
Survey: Robert Fleck | Interview: Bice Curiger | Focus:Neal Benezra

contemporary artists series (as editor)

Christian Boltanski
Survey: Didier Semin | Interview: Tamar Garb | Focus: Donald Kuspit

Richard Deacon
Survey: Jon Thompson | Interview: Pier Luigi Tazzi | Focus: Peter Schjeldahl | Update (2nd edition): Penelope Curtis

Jimmie Durham
Survey: Laura Mulvey | Interview: Dirk Snauwert | Focus: Mark Alice Durant | Update (2nd edition): Kate Nesin

Antony Gormley
Survey: John Hutchinson | Interview: Sir Ernst Gombrich | Focus: Lela B. Njatin | Update (2nd edition): W.J.T. Mitchell

Paul Graham
Survey: Andrew Wilson | Interview: Gillian Wearing | Focus: Carol Squiers

Mona Hatoum
Survey: Guy Brett | Interview: Michael Archer | Focus: Catherine De Zegher

Jenny Holzer
Survey: David Joselit | Interview: Joan Simon| Focus: Renata Saleci

Mary Kelly
Survey: Margaret Iversen | Interview: Douglas Crimp | Focus: Homi K. Bhabha

Thomas Schütte
Survey: Julian Heynen | Interview: James Lingwood | Focus: Angela Vettese

Nancy Spero
Survey: Jon Bird | Interview: Jo Anna Isaak | Focus: Sylvère Lotringer

Jessica Stockholder
Survey: Barry Schwabsky | Interview: Lynne Tillman | Focus: Lynne Cooke

Jeff Wall
Survey: Thierry de Duve | Interview: Arielle Pelenc | Focus: Boris Groys | Update (2nd edition): Jean-Francois Chevrier

Lawrence Weiner
Survey: Alexander Alberro | Interview: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh | Focus: David Batchelor and Alice Zimmerman

themes and movement series, phaidon

themes and movements

Arte Povera
editor Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (with Iwona Blazwick)

The Artist’s Body (with Iwona Blazwick)
editor Tracey Warr, survey editor Amelia Jones

Art and Feminism (with Iwona Blazwick)
editor Helena Reckitt, survey editory Peggy Phelan

Conceptual Art
editor Peter Osborne

Land and Environmental Art
editor Jeff Kastner, survey editor Brian Wallis

Minimalism
editor James Meyer

cream, biennales-in-a-book

other books

House, Rachel Whiteread
James Lingwood, Jon Bird, Doreen Massey, Iain Sinclair, Richard Shone, Neil Thomas, Anthony Vidler, Simon Watney

Amandes Ameres
Jean Marc Bustamante

Salon to Biennale: Exhibitions That Made Art History
Phaidon (2008) by Bruce Altshuler and Phaidon Editors

pressPLAY: Contemporary Artists in Conversation (2005)
50 interviews with key contemporary artists, the complete Phaidon interviews 1995-2005

Gordon Matta-Clark (2003)
by Thomas Crow, Corinne Disernes, Judith Russi Kirschner, Christian Kravagna

Robert Mangold (2000)
by Arthur C. Danto, Richard Shiff, Robert Storr, Nancy Princenthal, Sylvia Plimack Mangold