David Thomson

David Thomson is a collaborative interdisciplinary artist whose practice centers on the interrogation of presence and absence in the performance of identity. He has worked with Bebe Miller, Trisha Brown, Ralph Lemon, Sekou Sundiata, Marina Abramović, Alain Buffard, Yvonne Rainer, Meg Stuart, Maria Hassabi, Matthew Barney Okwui Okpokwasili, and Peter Born, among many others. Awards and fellowships include US Artist, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rauschenberg, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Thomson was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for Sustained Achievement (2001) and Outstanding Production (2018). He initiated the Artist Sustainability Project in 2017.