Marisa Williamson

Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
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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. Her projects map the past onto geographies of the present. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the US, as well as in Rome, Berlin, Switzerland, and Buenos Aires. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Graham Foundation, and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Williamson is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at the University of Virginia. She holds a BA from Harvard University and an MFA from CalArts. She was a 2012 participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2014-2015. While at the Warren Center she will be adapting her “Theater of the Anatomical Theatre,” a performance script recently published in Critical University Studies and Performance (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026).