The military bases where Mike Williams grew up are approximations of small American towns; restricted government versions of suburban living permeated by warfare readiness. This slippage has informed his work. An enigmatic and darkly humorous brand of post-documentary photography that revels in the 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. In 2023 Williams won the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Cynthia Eyre Award. His work was also included in Snapshot, organized by the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore and was exhibited at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His project Inherent Vice, was shown at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and his book Camera Infractus, is part of the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art Library.