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Anne Wilson

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Anne Wilson's (b. Detroit) multi-media art practice addresses issues of history, memory, and domestic and social ritual. Trained in an interdisciplinary fiber context and influenced by feminism and postminimalism in the 1970s, Wilson asserts the relevance of fiber and textile materials in a contemporary, conceptual art practice. She has expanded her practice into installation, social practice, and performance during the past decade. For Local Industry at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Wilson brought together 2,100 volunteers and 79 experienced weavers to create a community weaving. Wilson earned a BFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and an MFA at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California. She also attended the University of Michigan’s School of Art in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Wilson’s artwork embraces conceptual strategies and handwork using everyday materials like table linen, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread, glass, and wire. Recent group and solo exhibitions include FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (2018); Pathmakers, Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2015); Thread Lines (performance commission), The Drawing Center, New York (2014); Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (2014); The Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Hangzhou, China (2013); Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England (2012); Local Industry (2011) and Wind/Rewind/Weave (2010) at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (2010); and Out of the Ordinary, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (2007-08), among others. Her work is found in permanent collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Foundation Toms Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. She is a Professor in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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