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Fred Wilson Biography
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1976 |
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B.F.A., Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
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1987 |
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New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY
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1990 |
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New York State Council on the Arts, New York, NY
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1990 |
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National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY
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1991 |
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New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture, New York, NY
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1999 |
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The MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, Chicago, IL
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2002 |
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Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
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2003 |
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American Representative at the United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
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2006 |
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Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
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2007 |
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Honorary Doctorate, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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Fred Wilson, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2011
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Fred Wilson: Works 1993-2011, Karen Schubert, London, UK (solo)
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2011
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Objects, JGM Galerie, Paris, France
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2011
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Glasstress 2011, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettre ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice and Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Murano-Venice, Italy
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2011
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America: Now and Here, Leedy Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
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2010
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American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
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2010
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50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
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2010
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B&W, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
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2010
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Fred Wilson, Mitterrand + Sanz/Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
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2010
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Fred Wilson, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (solo)
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2009
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Kreyol Factory, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
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2009
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The Dorothy Saxe Invitational, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
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2008
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Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY
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2008
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Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
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2008
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An Account of a Voyage to the Island Jamaica with the Un-Natural History of that Place, Institute of Jamaica Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica (solo)
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2007
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Mining Glass, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
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2007
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Sculpture, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
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2007
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Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, NY
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2007
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Not For Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
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2006
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Fred Wilson: My Echo, My Shadow, and Me, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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Fred Wilson: Black Like Me, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
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2006
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Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New York Historical Society, New York, NY
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2006
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Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2005
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Fred Wilson: So Much Trouble in the World—Believe It or Not!, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hannover, NH (solo)
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2005
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The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2004
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Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2003 - 2004
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Only Skin Deep, Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
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2002 - 2004
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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)
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2003
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American Representative, United States Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale, Italy (solo)
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2003
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realUNreal, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
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2002 - 2003
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10th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (solo)
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2001
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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
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2001
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Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
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2001
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W, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France
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2001
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Museum as Subjects, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
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2001
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Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuming, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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2001
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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)
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2000
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Outbound: Passages From the 90's, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
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2000
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Drawings & Maquettes for A Light Rail Station, Jersey City Museum, NJ (solo)
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1999
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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)
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1999
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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)
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1999
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Trace, The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, UK
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1999
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Uniform, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
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1999
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The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
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1999
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To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center of Photography, New York; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Contemporary
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1999
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Microminiatures from Armenia: The Eye of the Needle; The Greeting Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
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1998
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Re-Presentation, Freedom Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
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1998
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Viewing the Invisible, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
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1998
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Postcards From Black America, Hedendaagse Afrikaans-Amerikaanse Kunst, Boschstraat, The Netherlands
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1998
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Viewing the Invisible: An installation by Fred Wilson, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Australia (solo)
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1997
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Collectibles, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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1997
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Reshuffling the Deck: Selections from the U.C. Davis Collections, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collections, University of California, Davis (solo)
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1997
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Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
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1997
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Museum Studies: Eleven Photographer's Views, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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1997
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Millenium Eve Dress, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
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1997
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Collected, The Photographer's Gallery and British Museum, London, UK
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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New School for Social Research, New York, NY
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Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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