Biography
Kyffin Williams studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London from 1941 to 1944. He went on to become the Senior Art Master at Highgate School from 1944 to 1973, and in 1968 gained a Winston Churchill Fellowship to record the Welsh in Patagonia.

Williams’s first one-man exhibition was held at P & D Colnaghi, London in 1949. Subsequent solo exhibitions were held at the Leicester Galleries, London, Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff and the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge. He has exhibited at the Thackeray Gallery, London biennially from 1975 and also exhibits regularly at the Albany Gallery, Cardiff. A retrospective of his work was held in 1987 at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, and subsequently toured to the Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. A portraits retrospective was held at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni in 1993.

Williams was President of the Royal Cambrian Academy from 1969 to 1976, and again from 1992. He was made an Honorary Fellow of University College, Swansea (1989), University College, Bangor (1991) and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1992). In 1991 he received the Medal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Kyffin Williams lives and works in Gwynedd, Wales.

Recent Solo Exhibitions
2000 Thackeray Gallery, London
2000 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1999 Thackeray Gallery, London
1997 Thackeray Gallery, London
1997 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1995 Thackeray Gallery, London
1993 Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni
1993 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1993 Thackeray Gallery, London
1992 Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge
1992 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1991 Thackeray Gallery, London
1991 Albany Gallery, Cardiff
1990 Albany Gallery, Cardiff

Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain; National Library of Wales; National Museum of Wales; National Portrait Gallery; Welsh Arts Council; Contemporary Art Society; Contemporary Art Society for Wales; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Glynn Vivian Museum & Art Gallery, Swansea; University of Wales Chantrey Bequest; Tate Gallery, London; Oriel Ynys Mon

Publications
1973 'Across the Straits', Kyffin Williams
1991 'A Wider Sky' Kyffin Williams
1996 'Portraits', 'Boyo Ballads'
1998 'The Land and the Sea' 2001 'Drawings', 'Cutting Images'