Kent Williams is an American painter, illustrator and graphic novel artist. From 1980 he studied in New York City at the Pratt Institute. Kent Williams' work has been the subject of a number of solo exhibitions over the past ten years, including shows in New York City, San Francisco, CA, Sundance, UT, The Duke Museum of Art, Durham, NC, and in Los Angeles, CA, where he is represented by Merry Karnowsky Gallery. His painting, TRACE DOUBLE-PORTRAIT, was exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC as part of THE OUTWIN BOOCHEVER 2006 PORTRAIT EXHIBITION. His work is collected both in the US and abroad, and is included in the collections of Robin and Marsha Williams, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, Darren Aronofsky, and Meg White. Williams is the recipient of a number of awards for his work, both in comics and illustration, including the Italian Yellow Kid Award, four medals from the Society of Illustrators, and the Joseph Henniger Award for Best of Show. Williams recently completed the graphic novel based upon the original script for the Darren Aronofsky film, The Fountain, starring Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman. The graphic novel took approximately two years to complete. Williams currently lives in Los Angele . He has two sons, Kerig Sun and he returned as a visiting instructor to The Pratt Institute, and has since gone on to teach at The California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, and The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. He currently teaches contemporary figurative painting at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
کنت ویلیامز یک نقاش ، تصویرگر و گرافیست آمریکایی است. او از سال 1980 تحصیلات هنری خود را در هنرستان پرت در نیویورک آغاز کرد و هم اینک آثارش در سطح داخلی و بین المللی به طور گسترده ای نمایش داده شده و به چاپ رسیده است. ضمنا کاتالوگی نیز از آثار نقاشی او در سال 1995 چاپ شده است. او جوایز هنری مهمی را نیز از آن خود کرده است که از آن جمله می توان به جایزه Italian Yellow Kid Award ، چهار مدال از انجمن تصویرگران و جایزه جوزف هنیگر برای بهترین اجرا را نام برد. او این دو سال اخیر را صرف تمام کردن تصویرهای یک کتاب بر اساس یک فیلم کرده است و هم اکنون با دو پسر خود در لس آنجلس زندگی و در کالج هنری پاسادنا تدریس می کند.
