William L. Fox is founding Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and has variously been called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer.
The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Artforum and Nature have reviewed Fox’s work. He is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and Explorers Club and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Clark Art Institute, the Australian National University, National Museum of Australia, and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Fox serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Archaeologies of Landscape in the Americas book series and ARID: Journal of Desert Art, Design & Ecology.
In younger days Fox was an accomplished climber, serving as a stuntman in a James Bond movie and leading multi-week treks in Nepal. He also co-owned an outdoor retail store for many years and taught rock climbing at the University of Nevada Reno. He still lives in Reno and is father to two sons and two granddaughters.