Jessica Williams (b. 1986) is a conceptual artist, curator, publisher, and educator whose vast practice hinges on the act of seeing. She is based in Norway.





Her works, often collective and collaborative, tackle uncomfortable and complex themes that affect us all, including belonging and the climate crisis. Publishing, photography, text, and new media are often combined to produce intimate, layered, and visceral artworks.

Her imprint, Hverdag Books (est. 2016) is dedicated to publishing fragile, vulnerable, and raw works by underrepresented voices. Based in Moss, Hverdag has given many risograph and self-publishing workshops all over Eastern Norway. Alongside her practice, she currently works as a curator at the Nitja center for contemporary art in Lillestrøm, and is a co-founded of Norsk Risoforening (est. 2018): a nationwide interest organization for risography in Norway. Between 2011-2014, she ran NSEW Press.

Lately, Williams has worked with an experimental exhibition that spans over an entire calendar year at House of Foundation in Moss about publishing, community, and identity. She has previously worked with strange bits of ocean plastic foraged in the inner Oslofjord that look like bits of real rock, and investigated the connection between mycelium and data centers: both of which are gigantic, invisible and affect us more than we know.






NITJA
Hverdag Books
Norsk Risoforening