Subterra
2019
William Lamson
Brooklyn, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About William Lamson
William Lamson is an interdisciplinary artist who works with elemental forces to create long-lasting performative actions. Set in landscapes as varied as New York's East River and the Atacama Desert in Chile, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play in these places. Lamson's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, including at the Brooklyn Museum, the Moscow Biennial, and MoMA PS1. He has made site-specific installations for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Land Use Interpretive Center, and the Storm King Art Center. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, Lamson has received fellowships from the Shifting Foundation and the Experimental Television Center. He earned his MFA from Bard College and teaches in the MFA photography program at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2023
Website / Social Links
In the landscape or in a gallery, my projects explore the ecologies of living and non-living systems to reveal their animating forces and material agency. In each of my artworks, I am interested in creating for viewers an expansive and shifting scale of experience that can move them between the microcosmic space, in which a material transformation is taking place, and the macrocosmic environment, in which both the participant and the artwork exist.”
