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Skeggs Lecture Series Spring 2008 presents
Fred Wilson
New York based site specific installation artist
"The Silent Message of the Museum"
Wednesday, March 19, 7pm
Ford Theatre, Bliss Hall
free and open to the public
parking available in the Wick Avenue parking deck
Fred Wilson (b. 1954, Bronx, NY) has created site-specific installations in collaboration with numerous museums and cultural institutions throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He received his B.F.A. from the State University of New York, Purchase in 1976. Since his first solo exhibition in 1988, Wilson’s work has been the subject of many individual shows and retrospectives including the critically acclaimed Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson at The Contemporary and Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore (1992-93), and Fred Wilson: The Greeting Gallery, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1999). In 2001, the solo exhibition Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979–2000 began its three year tour, traveling to eight different venues nationally, including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, the Art Museum, University of Houston, the Santa Monica Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Chicago Cultural Center.
Wilson’s work has also been featured in over 100 group exhibitions, including the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) as the American representative, the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition (1993), and the 4th International Cairo Biennale (1992).
As the recipient of many honors and awards, Wilson received the 10th Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2002), the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, Chicago (1999), the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts awards (1990), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture (1987 and 1991).
Fred Wilson’s work can be found in several public collections including: the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Birmingham Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; The Jewish Museum, NY; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Montclair Art Museum, NJ; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; the New School, NY; Seattle Art Museum; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
Fred Wilson currently lives and works in New York City.
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