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 Trisha Brown (1987-93), Ralph Lemon, Sekou Sundiata, Marina Abramović, Alain Buffard, Yvonne Rainer, Meg Stuart, Maria Hassabi, Okwui Okpokwasili/Peter Born, and Matthew Barney, among many others. Thomson was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”) for Sustained Achievement (2001), and for Outstanding Production (2018). Awards and fellowships include US Artists, Yaddo, MacDowell, Rauschenberg, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Alpert Award. In 2017, he initiated The Artist Sustainability Project to expand the practice and discourse of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment.