Kandis Williams (b. 1985) is a visual artist whose practice spans collage, performance, writing, publishing, and curating. Williams explores and deconstructs critical theory around race, nationalism, authority, and eroticism. In her her work, Kandis examines the body as a site of experience while drawing upon her background in the study of drama to envision spaces that accommodate varied biopolitical economies, which inform how form and movement might be read. Williams establishes lists that network parts of the anatomy, regions of Black diaspora, as well as communication and mystification, creating a bridge between how popular culture and myth are interconnected.

In 2016 she co-founded Cassandra Press, an artist-run publishing project and educational platform that she runs with the artists Taylor Doran and Jordan Nassar. Cassandra Press produces lo-fi activist and academic texts, flyers, posters, pamphlets, and Williams’s Readers series. The platform’s intention is to spread ideas, distribute new language, propagate dialogue-centering ethics, aesthetics, femme driven activism, and black scholarship. Williams’ ongoing collage practice seems to function as inspiration and as a container for work in other mediums, such as choreography, performance, and teaching.

Williams’ work has been acquired by multiple institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Julia Stoschek Collection, and the New Berlin Art Society.