The military bases where Mike Williams grew up are approximations of small American towns; self-contained government versions of suburban living permeated by warfare readiness. This slippage has informed his work; an enigmatic and darkly humorous brand of post-documentary photographic literature that ranges across various practices in an exploration of the paradoxical and overlapping complexities of the medium.
Williams received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Project Launch Grant from CENTER Santa Fe juried by Sarah Meister, Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, for his project Eschaton. His work was included in Snapshot, organized by the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and was exhibited at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His photographic sequence, Inherent Vice, was exhibited as part of Modernity and its Discontents at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and his self-published book, Camera Infractus, is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art Library.