Fred Wilson

b. Bronx, NY, USA in 1954.

Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.

Fred Wilson has created site-specific installations in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions throughout North America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. His work encourages viewers to reconsider social and historical narratives and raises critical issues about the politics of erasure and exclusion. Beginning with the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed exhibition Mining the Museum (1992-93) at the Maryland Historical Society, Fred Wilson has juxtaposed and re-contextualized existing objects to create new installations, which alter their traditional meanings or interpretations.

His many accolades include the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant (1999). In 2003, Wilson represented the United States at the 50th Venice Biennale with the solo exhibition, Fred Wilson: Speak of Me as I Am. This work has been exhibited in two editions of "Glasstress", as part of the 53rd & 54th Venice Biennale (2009 & 2011), which highlighted some examples of use of glass by historical and contemporary artists. Fred Wilson took part in many international exhibitions such as The Spiral of Art History, Indianapolis Museum of Art (1993) and also a retrospective Fred Wilson, Objects and Installations 1979-2000, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York & Chicago Cultural Center. His works are featured in prestigious public collections such as the Tate Modern in London, MoMA and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, or the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.