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Fred Wilson

(American, born 1954)

Fred Wilson

Arise!, 2004

5,500 USD

Fred Wilson

Dawn, 2004

5,500 USD

Fred Wilson

Exchange, 2004

5,500 USD

Fred Wilson

Convocation, 2004

5,500 USD

Fred Wilson

We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars, 2004

5,500 USD

Biography

Timeline

1954: Born in Bronx, NY
1976: B.F.A., Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
1987: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY
1990: New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY
: National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY
1991: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY
1999: The MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, Chicago, IL
2002: Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2003: American Representative at the United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
2006: Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2007: Honorary Doctorate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Exhibitions

2012: Fred Wilson, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2011: Fred Wilson: Works 1993-2011, Karen Schubert, London, UK (solo)
: Objects, JGM Galerie, Paris, France
: Glasstress 2011, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettre ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice and Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Murano-Venice, Italy
: America: Now and Here, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2010: American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
: 50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
: B&W, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
: Fred Wilson, Mitterrand + Sanz/Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Fred Wilson, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (solo)
2009: Kreyol Factory, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
: The Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
: Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
: An Account of a Voyage to the Island Jamaica with the Un-Natural History of that Place, Institute of Jamaica Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica (solo)
2008: Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
2007: Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
: Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
: Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, NY
: Not For Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2006: Fred Wilson: My Echo, My Shadow, and Me, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: Fred Wilson: Black Like Me, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
: Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
: Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005: Fred Wilson: So Much Trouble in the World—Believe It or Not!, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hannover, NH (solo)
: The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004: Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (solo)
2003 - 2004: Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
: realUNreal, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
2003: American Representative, United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (solo)
2002 - 2004: Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD. The exhibition will travel to Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Universityof California, Berkeley, CA. Blaffner Gallery, The Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston,TX; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY;Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL. (solo)
2002 - 2003: 10th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
2001: Play's The Thing, (Organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program) Art Gallery of The Graduate Center, The University of New York, NY
: Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
: W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
: Museum as Subjects, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
: Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuming, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA (2002); Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2002); Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA (2003)
2000: Outbound: Passages From the 90's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
: Drawings & Maquettes for A Light Rail Station, Jersey City Museum, NJ (solo)
: Microminiatures from Armenia: The Eye of the Needle; The Greeting Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center of Photography, New York; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Contemporary
: The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: Uniform, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
: The Greeting Gallery, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1999: Fred Wilson: Speaking in Tongues A Look at the Language of Display, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1998: Re-Presentation, Freedom Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
: Viewing the Invisible, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
: Postcards From Black America, Hedendaagse Afrikaans-Amerikaanse Kunst, Boschstraat, The Netherlands
: Viewing the Invisible: An installation by Fred Wilson, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia (solo)
1997: Collectibles, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Reshuffling the Deck: Selections from the U.C. Davis Collections, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collections, University of California, Davis (solo)
: Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
: Museum Studies: Eleven Photographer's Views, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: Millenium Eve Dress, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: Collected, The Photographer's Gallery and British Museum, London, UK

Public Collections

: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: New School for Social Research, New York, NY
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Fred Wilson

(American, born 1954)

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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