Will Rawls

Will Rawls is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Working with dance, objects, sound and language, Will creates performances that unravel and reconfigure around ideas of becoming. Will has presented work at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Danspace Project, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Performa 15, Tanzquartier Wien and MoMA PS1. He is editor-at-large for Critical Correspondence and his writing and interviews have been published by Adult Contemporary #01, Artforum, Triple Canopy, Recess Art, les presses du réel and The Museum of Modern Art. In Fall 2016, with Ishmael Houston-Jones, he co-curated Danspace Project’s Platform: Lost & Found, exploring themes of AIDS, absence and queer performance.

He is a recipient of a 2015 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award and is a 2017-2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

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