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Biography - Fred Wilson

Born

1954 Bronx, NY.

Education

1976 S.U.N.Y. College at Purchase, B.F.A.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Fred Wilson, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2005-2006 Fred Wilson: Black Like Me, The Aldrich Contemporary Arts Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2003 *Speak of Me As I Am, American Representative, United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
Fred Wilson: Aftermath, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2002-04 Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD; Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Blaffner Gallery, 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
2002-03 10th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2002 Is This Now Just Beginning?, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2000 Drawings & Maquettes for a Light Rail Station, Jersey City Museum, NJ
1999 Fred Wilson: Speaking in Tongues – A Look at the Language of Display, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1999 The Greeting Gallery, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 Viewing the Invisible: An installation by Fred Wilson, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia
1997 Collectibles, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Reshuffling the Deck: Selections from the U.C. Davis Collections, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collections, University of California, Davis, CA
1996 OpEd: Fred Wilson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1995 Collectibles, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1993 The Museum: Mixed Metaphors, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1993 The Spiral of Art History, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Transformations 4, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
An Invisible Life: A View into the World of a 120 Year Old Man, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1992 Panta Rhei: A Gallery of Ancient Classical Art, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson, The Contemporary and Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
Biennial Cairo, Egypt
1991 The Other Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
Primitivism: High & Low, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Fred Wilson, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1990 The Other Museum, White Columns, New York, NY
1988 Portrait of Audubon, The Public Art Fund, outdoor sculpture, Chambers St. & West Broadway, New York, NY
The Other Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Panta Rhei: A Gallery of Ancient Classical Art, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1988 Mining the Museum, The Contemporary & Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
An Invisible Life: A View into the World of a 120 Year Old Man (an Off-Site Installation by Fred Wilson), Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
‘Insight: In Site: In Sight: Incite - Memory,’ Artist and the Community: Fred Wilson, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 Summer Group Show, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Only Skin Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Art by MacArthur Fellows, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio
2003 Works from the Eyebeam Moving Image Studios, New York, NY
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2002 Art Inside Out, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
2001 Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More…On Collecting, (Organized by Independent Curators International) 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; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
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
Museum as Subjects, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2000 Outbound: Passages From the 90’s, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1999 Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England
Uniform, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center of Photography, New York; Miami Art Museum, FL; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Microminiatures from Armenia: The Eye of the Needle; The Greeting Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998 Re-Presentation, Freedom Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
Viewing the Invisible, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Postcards from Black America, Hedendaagse Afrikaans-Amerikaanse Kunst, Boschstraat, Netherlands
1997 Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990’s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 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, England
1996 Inklusion: Exklusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria
Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Putt-Modernism, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
Fragments: Proposta per a una colleccio de fotografia contemporania, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
Designation, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria
Millennium Eve Dress, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Heroes and heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ
Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995, Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany
1994 Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace, Thread Waxing Space, NewYork, NY
1994 Western Artists/African Art, Museum of African Art, New York, NY
Notational Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY (traveling ICI exhibition)
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary America Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Cocido Y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1993 Readymade Identities, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Construction in Process IV: My Home is Your Home, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, University of California at Irvine
Artists Respond: The New World Question, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Ciphers of Identity, (organized by Maurice Berger), Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
The Rag Trade, The InterArt Center, New York, NY
Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks At Itself, The Parrish Art Museum Southhampton, NY
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Rosamund Felsen Clinic, (curated by Ralph Rugoff), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Putt-Modernism, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
Translation, (curated by Kim Levin), Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Inheritance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1992 The Jewish Museum’s Masked Ball: In Celebration of Purim, The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, NY
The Order of Things: Toward A Politic of Still Life, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The Big Nothing Or Le Presque Rien, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Environmental Terror, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD; Frostburg State University, MD; East Main Street Gallery, VA
Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, (organized by Joshua Decter), USDAN Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Quincentenary, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Inheritance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Environmental Terror, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore,MD
1991 Office Installations, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island, NY
SITEseeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown), New York, NY
Outdoor Sculpture Commission, Dept. of Parks, Prospect Park, NY
1990 Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions,” Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Fine Arts Faculty Group Show, Galleries at F.I.T., New York, NY
Orders, Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
Notes on the Margin, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Dream Machinations in America, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1990 Conflict & Resolution, Brownsville Art Gallery Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
1987 Selection from the Artists File, Artists Space, New York, NY
Intellects and Idiosyncrasies, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Bronx Celebrates: Alternative Spaces, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Ando/Wilson, New Sculpture, John Jay College Art Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Art on the Beach, Creative Time Inc., New York, NY
Forecast: Images of the Future, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Visions, Rediscovered, Castillo Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Exchange of Sources: Expanding Powers, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Racist America, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, NY
Sticks and Stones - Modern/Post Modern Sculpture, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
L’Esprit Enclyclopedique, Caidoz Gallery, New York, NY
Art Against Apartheid, (window installation), 10 on 8, New York, NY
The Monument Redefined, Gowanus Memorial Artyard, New York, NY
After Dark, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ
1982 Ornament as Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Terminal New York, A.A.A. Art, New York, NY
Looks at Books, ABC NO Rio, New York, NY
Grand Army Plaza: Three Sculptors, Grand Army Plaza Arch, Dept. of Parks, New York, NY
Spare Parts, Materials for the Arts/Dept. of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
1981 Festive Works, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Collaborations

1992 Houses of Spirit/Memories of Ancestors - An Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York (co-curated by FW and Betti-Sue Hertz,sponsored by Bronx Council on the Arts and Woodlawn Cemetery)
1987 AvantGardeArama, P.S.122, New York
1985 Art on the Beach, Creative Time, Inc., in collaboration with Yoshiko Chuma and Lenny Pickett, New York
1984 Art and the Actor, Theatre for the New City, in collaboration with Daryl Chin, playwright
1983 Dance Environments, P.S.1, New York, in collaboration with Jane Goldberg, tap dancer
1982 A Performance Response to Machines and Sanctuaries, The Sculpture Center, New York, in collaboration with Julia Demaree, performance artist and Helene Brandt, sculptor
1976 Sculpturedance, Roy T. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY, Dancer/Choreographer

Awards

2003 American Representative at the United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
2002 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1999 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
1991 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY
1990 New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY
1987 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY

Selected Public Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New School University, New York, New York
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York