FRED WILSON
BORN
1954 Bronx NY
EDUCATION
1976 S.U.N.Y. College at Purchase, B.F.A.
AWARDS
2003 American Representative at the United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Itlay
2002 Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1999 The MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, 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 SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 "Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2003 American Representative, United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (catalogue)
2002-04 "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. Catalogue.
2002-03 "10th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2000 Drawings & Maquettes for A Light Rail Station, Jersey City Museum, NJ (brochure)
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 (brochure)
1999 "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 (brochure)
1998 "Viewing the Invisible: An installation by Fred Wilson," The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
1997 "Collectibles," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Reshuffling the Deck: Selections from the U.C. Davis Collections," Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collections, University of California, Davis
1996 OpEd: Fred Wilson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
1995 Collectibles, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1993 The Museum: Mixed Metaphors, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
1993 The Spiral of Art History, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (brochure)
1993 "Transformations 4," Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (brochure)
1993 "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
1992 "Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson," The Contemporary and
Maryland Historical
Society, Baltimore, MD
1992 Biennial Cairo, Egypt
1991 "The Other Museum," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC
1991 Primitivism: High & Low, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1991 "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
1988 "The Other Museum," Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1988 Panta Rhei: A Gallery of Ancient Classical Art, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1988 Mining the Museum, The Contemporary & Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
1988 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
1988 Insight: In Site: In Sight: Incite - Memory, Artist and the Community: Fred Wilson, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (ex. cat.)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 “The Anniversary Show,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003-2004 “Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self,” International Center for Photography, New York, NY
2003 “realUNreal,” Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
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
2001 “Crossing the Line,” Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
2001" W,” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
2001 "Museum as Subjects," The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2001 “Unpacking Europe,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuming, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
2001 “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) (cat.)
2000 Outbound: Passages From the 90's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
1999 Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (catalogue)
1999 Uniform, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1999 The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue)
1999 To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center of Photography, New York; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Contemporary
Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1999 "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 (catalogue)
1998 Viewing the Invisible, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
1998 Postcards From Black America, Hedendaagse Afrikaans-Amerikaanse Kunst, Boschstraat, The Netherlands (catalogue)
1997 Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's,” Whitney Museum of American Art,
NY
1997 Museum Studies: Eleven Photographer's Views, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1997 Millenium Eve Dress, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH
1997 Collected, The Photographer's Gallery and British Museum, London, England
1996 Inklusion: Exklusion,Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz
1996 Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1996 Putt-Modernism, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
1996 Fragments: Proposta per a una colleccio de fotografia contemporania, Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (catalogue)
1996 New Histories, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (catalogue)
1996 Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1996 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1996 Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1996 "Designation, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria
1996 Millennium Eve Dress, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Heroes and heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ
1995 Configura 2 - Dialog der Kulturen - Erfurt 1995, Erfurt, Federal Republic of Germany (catalogue)
1994 Don't Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
1994 Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1994 Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (catalogue)
1994 Western Artists/African Art, Museum of African Art, New York, NY
1994 Notational Photographs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1994 Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY (traveling ICI exhibition)
1994 Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary America Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
1994 Cocido Y Crudo, museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
1993 Readymade Identities, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993 1993 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1993 Construction in Process IV: My Home is Your Home, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland
1993 The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, University of California at Irvine (catalogue)
1993 Artists Respond: The New World Question,The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1993 Ciphers of Identity, (organized by Maurice Berger), Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD (catalogue)
1993 The Rag Trade, The InterArt Center, New York, NY
1992 Past Imperfect: A Museum Looks At Itself, The Parrish Art Museum Southhampton, NY (catalogue)
1992 Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1992 "Rosamund Felsen Clinic, (curated by Ralph Rugoff), Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
1992 Putt-Modernism, Artist's Space, New York, NY
1992 Translation, (curated by Kim Levin), Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw,
Poland (catalogue)
1992 Inheritance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1992 The Jewish Museum's Masked Ball: In Celebration of Purim,” The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, NY
1992 The Order of Things: Toward A Politic of Still Life, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1992 The Big Nothing Or Le Presque Rien, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
1992 "Environmental Terror, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD; Frostburg State
University, MD; East Main Street Gallery, VA (catalogue)
1992 "Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, (organized by Joshua Decter), USDAN Gallery, Bennington
College, Bennington, VT (catalogue)
1992 Quincentenary, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
1992 Inheritance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
1992 Environmental Terror, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
1991 Office Installations, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island, NY
1991 SITEseeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (Downtown), New York, NY
1991 Outdoor Sculpture Commission, Dept. of Parks, Prospect Park, NY
1990 Public Mirror: Artists Against Racial Prejudice, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
1990 The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1990 Fine Arts Faculty Group Show, Galleries at F.I.T., New York, NY
1990 Orders, Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY
1990 Notes on the Margin, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
1990 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
1987 Intellects and Idiosyncrasies, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Bronx Celebrates: Alternative Spaces, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1986 Ando/Wilson, New Sculpture, John Jay College Art Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Art on the Beach, Creative Time Inc., New York, NY
1985 "Forecast: Images of the Future, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Visions, Rediscovered, Castillo Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Exchange of Sources: Expanding Powers, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1984 Racist America, Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, NY
1984 "Sticks and Stones - Modern/Post Modern Sculpture, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
1984 L'Esprit Enclyclopedique, Caidoz Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Art Against Apartheid, (window installation), 10 on 8, New York, NY
1983 The Monument Redefined, Gowanus Memorial Artyard, New York, NY
1983 "After Dark, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ
1982 Ornament as Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1982 Terminal New York, A.A.A. Art, New York, NY
1982 Looks at Books,ABC NO Rio, New York, NY
1982 Grand Army Plaza: Three Sculptors,” Grand Army Plaza Arch, Dept. of Parks, New York, NY
1982 "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, tapdancer
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