William Lamson (born 1977) is an American installation artist, performance artist, and generative artist. He was born in Arlington, Virginia, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Within his artistic career, he works both in the natural world and in his studio. His playful interaction with his environment includes small performances and actions that are captured on video. His diverse artistic practice involves working with elemental forces to create durational performative actions. Education Lamson received his undergraduate education at Dartmouth College and graduated with his B.A. in 2000. Soon after, he went on to pursue his M.F.A. at Bard College, graduating in 2006. Career achievements Over his career, Lamson's work has appeared in Artforum, frieze, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Village Voice. Lamson was named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and received grants from the Shifting Foundation and the Experimental Television Center. Artistic process and technique As an interdisciplinary artist, Lamson uses a wide range of mediums, including video, photography, performance, and sculpture. In many of his projects, he creates an apparatus or props for the actions within the projects, as well as a set of tools for filming the action too. Despite significant logistical challenges, Lamson says the benefit of working this way is that he knows how everything works once they're ready to shoot the video. He builds the props and tools, and operates the camera himself, and budgets multiple days for careful shooting with only one or two assistants. Lamson's thoughtfulness when it comes to the viewer's experience and the function of the camera makes an impact in his work that shows through. Set in landscapes as varied as New York's East River and Chile's Atacama Desert, his projects reveal the invisible systems and forces at play within these sites. In all his projects, Lamson's work represents a collaboration with forces outside of his control to explore systems of knowledge and belief. In an interview with Dina Deitsch, a curator, Lamson said that his work is perhaps "a move from performing in front of the camera to performing inside of the image-making system itself." Exhibitions Lamson's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He's been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum, The Moscow Biennial, P.S.1 MOMA, Kunsthalle Erfurt, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, and Honor Fraser Gallery in Los