Todd did his undergraduate work at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was Fine Arts major. Very early in his life he realized that he could not isolate visual art from other media and influences in his life. Using as a base he would create paintings that all have a preparation of blue gesso that gives forth more light than white. His technique is to use a straight edge in oil paint to create lines of distinction. These equi-spaced lines can be bars for music or lines waiting to be filled with words that will communicate the universality of arts. Then he comes back in to ‘pull the sounds from the compositions’.  This was the body of work that set the style for his first solo exhibition/performance.

"My work has been described in many ways but my favorite was, “Incredible light that comes from the soul of the artist can be seen and felt like violence presented calmly yet explicitly in the work of Todd Williamson.  A violent calm that seethes beneath the surface with sexual tension and understanding.” - Todd Williamson                                                                            

Todd Williamson has been awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation Award Grant 2010/2011, two Artslant International Showcase Award, Curator's Choice Award from the Micro Museum, Brooklyn NY, and most recently an Artistic Merit Award from the City of Naples, Italy.  

He was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome '0,  the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts '06 (Greece), the International School '08 (Venice Italy), and Louise Bourgeois' artist salon in 2008.  He has exhibited extensively both in the US and internationally.  He has shown with Ed Rusche, Jenny Holzer, Joe Mancuso, Mie Olise, Donald Lipske, Ed Moses, Laddie John Dill, and Chuck Close.