Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson was born in 1954 in the Bronx, New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1976 from the S.U.N.Y. College at Purchase.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

1988 “Portrait of Audubon”, The Public Art Fund, outdoor sculpture, Chambers St. & West Broadway, New York, NY

1991 “The Other Museum”, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

“Fred Wilson”, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY

1993 “The Spiral of Art History”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

“An Invisible Life: A View into the World of a 120 Year Old Man”, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA

1996 “OpEd: Fred Wilson”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1999 “The Greeting Gallery”, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, organized by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2003 American Representative, United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1984 “Racist America”, Dramatist Personae Gallery, New York, NY

“Art Against Apartheid”, 10 on 8, 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

1990 “The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions”, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

“Dream Machinations in America”, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

1992 “The Order of Things: Toward a Politic of Still Life”, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

“Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings”, (organized by Joshua Decter), USDAN Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1994 “Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace”, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

“Western Artists/African Art”, Museum of African Art, New York, NY

1998 “Viewing the Invisible”, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

“Postcards From Black America”, Hedendaagse Afrikaans- Amerikaanse Kunst, Boschstraat, Netherlands

2000 “Outbound: Passages From the 90’s”, Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England

2001 “W”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France

Awards:

1987 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY

1990 National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY

New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY

1991 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY

1999 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 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