Will Rawls, Study, 2019. Digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist

Will Rawls earned a BA in Art History from Williams College. He is a recipient of a United States Artists Award, Creative Capital Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant, MacDowell Fellowship, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, a “Bessie” (New York Dance and Performance Award), and Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Rawls’s choreographic work has appeared nationally and internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens; High Line Art, New York; ICA Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; and Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria, among others. His writing has been published by Artforum; Dancing While Black Journal; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Rawls has been a guest artist at Bard College, Barnard College, Harvard University/Carpenter Center, Wesleyan University, and Williams College, and a mentor for Colorado College's Department of Theatre and Dance. He served as the 2020–2021 UC Regents’ Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance.