Name: In Conversation: Robin F. Williams and Ottessa Moshfegh
Start: 2026-04-03T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-03T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The FLAG Art Foundation

In Conversation: Robin F. Williams and Ottessa Moshfegh

On the occasion of "Spotlight: Robin F. Williams," the artist and Ottessa Moshfegh will be in conversation.
About this Event

On the occasion of Spotlight: Robin F. Williams, FLAG will host a discussion with artist Robin F. Williams and fiction writer Ottessa Moshfegh.
Friday, April 3, 6-8 PM; discussion will begin at 6:30 PM

About:
Robin F. Williams (b. 1984, Columbus, OH) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Williams earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2006. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Shift, Pace Prints, New York, NY (2025); Good Mourning, PPOW, New York, NY (2024); Undying, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (2024); Robin F. Williams: We’ve Been Expecting You, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2024); Watch Yourself, Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico (2023). They have been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Enough Already: Women Artists from the Sara M.+ Michelle Vance Waddell Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut, Wesport, CT (2025); In the Flesh, Adler Beatty, New York, NY (2025); Two by Two Together, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (2024); In New York, Thinking of You (Part I), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023); and Figure Fire Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL (2022). Williams is included in art collections worldwide, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Collection Majudia, Montreal, Canada; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL; X Museum, Beijing, China.

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona, her next three novels, were New York Times bestsellers. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World and a novella, McGlue. She lives in Southern California.