Marisa Williamson is a project-based artist who works in video, image-making, installation,
writing and performance around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology. Williamson’s
work maps the past onto geographies of the present. It is rooted in questions of authority,
parafiction, freedom through the lens of time. It addresses these interests as they pertain to her
life, existing as a consequence of known and unknown literal and figurative ancestors. Her work
has been featured in exhibitions throughout the US, as well as Rome, Berlin, Switzerland, and
Buenos Aires. She was a 2012 participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and
the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2014-2015. Williamson holds a BA from
Harvard University and an MFA from CalArts. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the
University of Virginia (Charlottesville) with a research focus on Blackness.
