Anne Wilson
born Detroit, Michigan, 1949
Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, and private and social rituals. Her artwork embraces conceptual strategies and handwork using everyday materials -- table linen, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread, glass, and wire.
Wilson's art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Des Moines Art Center, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, among others.
Wilson was named a 2015 United States Artists Distinguished Fellow and is the recipient of awards/acknowledgements from the Textile Society of America (2017 Fellow), Driehaus Foundation, Artadia, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, NASAD (Citation Recipient), Cranbrook Academy of Art (Distinguished Alumni Award), the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council. She is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. Wilson is a Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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born Springdale, Washington, 1918; died Rogers, Arkansas, 2013
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born Champaign, Illinois, 1931; died Seattle, Washington, 2015
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born Wagonmound, New Mexico, 1917; died Woodstock, New York, 1995
born Yorba Linda, California, 1911; died Portland, Oregon, 1993
born Uwajima, Japan, 1902; died Tokyo, Japan, 1999
born Sandwich, Ontario, Canada, 1907; died Michigan, 2001