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Her African-American parents were employed by a wealthy Greek family, and she grew up in their Manhattan home.
She recalls a diversity of cultures but no racism when growing up.{{sfn|The World & I|1999}}
She attended [[Bennington College]], earning a Bachelor's degree, and went on to [[New York University]] where she obtained a Master's in painting.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}
Williamson has worked at Parsons School of Design, The Getty Institute for Education in the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Bard College, Rhode Island School of Design and Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{sfn|Jersey Arts}}
She was awarded a [[Joan Mitchell Foundation]] grant in 1997.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}
Other awards include a
Williamson belongs to the Brooklyn Art Association.
As of 2010 Williamson lived and worked in [[Upper Montclair, New Jersey]], with a studio in Bloomfield.{{sfn|Smith|2010}}
==Work and reception==
Williamson prefers to paint with oil on linen.
Many of her pictures show children and adolescents, drawing on her imagination and her own childhood.
The paintings, in vibrant colors, may be interpreted as showing sadness or childhood innocence.{{sfn|Smith|2010}}
Williamson's work often depicts interactions between characters of difference races.{{sfn|The World & I|1999}}
She has said, "My paintings are of pre-adolescent girls and boys, children on the cusp of adulthood. The figures struggle to balance their innocence and awkwardness with their new found sexuality. The figures are involved in their own drama when the observer discovers them; it is a surprise to both. The questions begin at this point…Who are these children? What are they doing and why? Ethnicity and gender are questioned."{{sfn|Jersey Arts}}
Her work is held by the [[Sheldon Museum of Art]] in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]; the [[Mint Museum]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]; [[Hampton University]] museum in [[Hampton, Virginia]]; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, [[Flint, Michigan]]; Reader's Digest Art Collection and AT&T.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}} ▼
Her ''Seasons'' decorates the [[Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)]] subway station in New York City.▼
This 2007 work is a set of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicted events related to the four seasons of meteorology.{{sfn|Rosenfeld|2007}}▼
Her ''Folktales from Around the World'' is a set of four glass mosaic murals at the Glen Oaks Campus School in Queens.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}▼
According to art essayist Nina Felshin, "Life, in Philemona Williamson's paintings, appears to be a balancing act in which there are two sides to every coin and the action intentionally raises more questions than it answers."
Art critic Catherine Bernard has said, "The tension of the figures, the colors, and the distortion of space are all shadows, however faint, of our dismembered memories."{{sfn|The World & I|1999}}
In 1992 she received an Arts in Transit Poster Commission at New York's [[14th Street – Union Square (New York City Subway)|Union Square Station]].{{sfn|Jersey Arts}}
▲Her ''Folktales from Around the World'' (2003) is a set of four glass mosaic murals at the Glen Oaks Campus School in Queens.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}
▲Her work is held by the [[Sheldon Museum of Art]] in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]; the [[Mint Museum]] in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]]; [[Hampton University]] museum in [[Hampton, Virginia]]; Mott-Warsh Art Collection, [[Flint, Michigan]]; Reader's Digest Art Collection and AT&T.{{sfn|June Kelly Gallery|2010}}
▲Her ''Seasons'' decorates the [[Livonia Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)]] subway station in New York City.
▲This 2007 work is a set of stained glass windows on the platform windscreens depicted events related to the four seasons of meteorology.{{sfn|Rosenfeld|2007}}
Her pictures have been published as illustrations in ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''.{{sfn|Harpers Magazine}}
==Exhibitions==
Williamson's work has been displayed in many group and individual exhibitions in locations such as SUNY College in [[Old Westbury, New York]]; the [[John Michael Kohler Arts Center]] in [[Sheboygan, Wisconsin]], the [[African American Museum (New York)|African American Museum]] in [[Hempstead (village), New York|Hempstead, New York]]; the [[Queens Museum of Art]] in New York City, the [[Montclair Art Museum]] and the [[Bronx Museum of the Arts]] in New York City.{{sfn|Towson University}}
Selected exhibitions:
* 1994
*October
*November 2010: Fractured Tales - New Paintings - June Kelly Gallery{{sfn|ArtSlant}}
*September 2011: The Art of Giving Back - Visual Arts Gallery - The School of Visual Arts{{sfn|ArtSlant}}
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*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Harpers Magazine}} |url=http://harpers.org/subjects/PhilemonaWilliamson
|author=Harpers Magazine
|title=Williamson, Philemona
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Jersey Arts}} |url=http://www.jerseyarts.com/ArtistGallery.aspx?ID=150
|author=Jersey Arts
|title=Philemona Williamson
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
*{{cite web |ref=harv |url=http://www.mutualart.com/OpenExternalArticle/Strong--Colorful-Surreal-Paintings-by-Ph/D7EBB633DC2CA9BA
|work=Mutual Art |date=2010
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|author=June Kelly Gallery
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
*{{cite book |ref=harv
|last1=Lovell|first1=Whitfield|last2=Lippard|first2=Lucy R.|title=The Art of Whitfield Lovell: Whispers from the Walls
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ji1Mrm2PWNwC&pg=PA119|accessdate=2012-08-05
|date=2003-03-01|publisher=Pomegranate|isbn=978-0-7649-2447-7}}
*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Mutual Art 2012}} |url=http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Philemona-Williamson/2EF074D1480D67E9
|author=Mutual Art |title=Philemona Williamson (American)
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|last=Rosenfeld |first=Robbie |year=2007
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
*{{cite web |ref=harv |url=http://iartnewyork.blogspot.ca/2010/10/philemona-williamson.html
|title=Philemona Williamson "Fractured Tales"
|last=Smith |first=Alexa
|date=2 October 2010 |work=NYC Art Gallery Exhibits
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
*{{cite journal |ref=harv |url=http://www.worldandihomeschool.com/public_articles/1999/february/wis18179.asp
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*{{cite web |ref={{harvid|Towson University}} |url=http://events.towson.edu/event/philemona_williamson_new_work
|author=Towson University
|title=PHILEMONA WILLIAMSON: NEW WORK
|accessdate=2012-08-09}}
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