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FRED WILSON (1954 - )
Untitled (Venice Biennale)
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Digital print on Kodak Professional paper, 2003. 400x560 mm; 15
3
/
8
x21
7
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8
inches, full margins.
Signed, dated and numbered 6/125 in ink on the verso.
Fred Wilson works in a multitude of mediums, including installation, sculpture, video, glass and
printmaking. In the 1970s,Wilson worked as a freelance museum educator for the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History and the American Crafts Museum, all in New
York. By the late ’80s, he was working full-time as an artist, and in 1999, he was awarded the
MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
In 2003,Wilson was the United States representative to the Venice Biennale, where he focused on
“trompe l’oeil curating,” placing African-American historical or cultural objects in new—and
sometimes outlandish—settings.The juxtaposition of images and mediums in this digital projection
is reminiscent of his other ahistoric renderings.
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