BIOGRAPHY
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| LETHA WILSON | |
| 1976 | Born in Honolulu, HI |
| Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY | |
| Training | |
| 2009 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME |
| 1999-2003 | MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK |
| 1994-1998 | BFA, College of Visual & Performing Arts, Syracuse University; Syracuse, NY |
| Solo and Two Person Exhibitions | |
| 2018 | Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT |
| 2017 | Platform 19: Letha Wilson, De Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| Brie Ruias & Letha Wilson, September, Hudson , NY | |
| Letha Wilson: Shadows and Sunlight, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture at PNCA, Portland, OR | |
| 2016 | Fold and Unfold: Kate Steciw & Letha Wilson, MACRO Museo d'Art Contemporanea, Roma, IT |
| Surface Moves, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris | |
| 2015 | Richard T. Walker & Letha Wilson, Capital, San Francisco, CA |
| Look With Your Hands, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Sight Specific, Light Work, Syracuse, NY | |
| Terra Firma, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT | |
| 2014 | Letha Wilson, Higher Pictures, New York, NY |
| Letha Wilson, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, FR | |
| Jason Middlebrook & Letha Wilson, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY | |
| 2013 | Monuments and Landmarks, Art in General, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Higher Pictures, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Punch the Sky, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2009 | Lines Through the Wilderness, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY |
| Lost Horizons, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY | |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 2017 | In the Abstract, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
| Bearable Lightness of Being, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL | |
| Light & Matter: The Photographic Object, curated by Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA | |
| The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanic Photography, curated by Jamilee Lacy, New Art Center, Newtonville, MA | |
| There is nothing I could say that I haven't thought before, curated by Cynthia Daignault, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY | |
| 2016 | The Sun Placed In The Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH |
| Episode 10, curated by Cynthia Daignault, Stems Gallery, Brussels, BE | |
| MirrorMirror, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY | |
| Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene, University Art Museum Albany, Albany, NY | |
| Ways and Means: A New Look at Process and Materials in Art curated by Jason Andrew, 1285 Avenue of th Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Collector's Summer #1, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, FR | |
| Out of Oboscurity, Flowers Gallery, London, UK | |
| Woven, curated by Xavier Simmons, 60 Wall Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY | |
| Land Escapes, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY | |
| There Is Nothing I Could Say That I Haven't Trought Before, Stems Gallery, Brussels, BE | |
| Face to Face: Works from Ernesto Esposito Collection, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, IT | |
| Fine words butter no parsnips however fine parsnips can butter words, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Cuts, Shapes, Scrapes and Breaks, curated by Rhys Coren & Gabriel Hartley, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK | |
| Contingent Matter, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, QC | |
| 2015 | Not A Photo, The Hole, New York, NY |
| Touch Tone: Rachel de Joode, Kate Steciw & Letha Wilson, Martos Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Catfish, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA | |
| U:L:O Part II: For the Good Times, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Weird Science, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Mediated Images, Brand New Gallery, IT | |
| How To Drape The Concrete, Galerie Jeanrochdard, Brussels, BE | |
| River Crossings: Contemporary Art Come Home, Olona State Historic State, Hudson, NY | |
| An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Accross Media, The College of New Jersy Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ | |
| State Park, University Art Gallery UC San Diego, San Diego, CA | |
| Zabriskie Point, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Picture/Thing, Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT | |
| 2014 | Ad Infinitum, University Museum at the Katzen Arts Central, Washington, DC |
| Broken Surface Artificial Matter, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY | |
| Somewhere Between Creation and Destruction, Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT | |
| Branching Out: Trees as Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA | |
| Pablo Jansana, Evan Nesbit, Letha Wilson, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY | |
| Fixed Variable, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY | |
| Road Trip: America Through the Windshield, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT | |
| The mysterious device was moving forward, Longhouse Projects, New York, NY | |
| Sargent's Daughters, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY | |
| Cut Fold Rewrite, Feldbusch Wiesner, Berlin, DE | |
| Redacted, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY | |
| Ain'tings, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY | |
| What Is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY | |
| Fruit/Flowers/Appliances, LVL3, Chicago, IL | |
| Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT | |
| 2013 | The First 15: The Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| Haptic Translations (organized by Christine Messineo), OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA | |
| With Cinder Blocks We Flatten Our Photographs, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY | |
| Clear Cut, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, CDN | |
| 2012 | New New York, Essl Museum, Vienna, A |
| NeoNatural, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA | |
| After Image: The Photographic Process(ed), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA | |
| There’s Something Happening Here, Brancolini Grimaldi, London, UK | |
| Black Foliage, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD | |
| Earth WORKS: Ten Artists on Land and Industry, P.P.O.W., New York, NY | |
| Leave it to Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL | |
| B19, Long Island University Brooklyn, Humanities Gallery, NY | |
| Photography Is, Higher Pictures, New York, NY | |
| Amalgalm, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| What I Know (curated by Jason Andrew), NYCAMS, New York, NY | |
| Placemakers, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE | |
| Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw & Letha Wilson, Toomer Labdza, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | 2011 Next Wave Art (curated by Dan Cameron), BAM, Brooklyn, NY |
| Project Space, Stene Projects, Stockholm, S | |
| ROY G BIV (curated by Trong G. Nguyen), Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, NY | |
| Composite Materialism, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine The Death of Affect, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, NY | |
| This is the Same as That: Dave Murray and Letha Wilson, LVL3, Chicago, IL | |
| Late Summer Blues, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Every Photo Graph Is Invisible, Churner and Churner, New York, NY | |
| Summer Time, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Dawn Til Dusk, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, New York, NY | |
| Nature Unframed, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL | |
| New Monuments, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY | |
| The Working Title, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY | |
| Groundwork, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Off Camera, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 2010 | Tide Pool, Sara Meltzer Gallery / Projects, NY, NY Greening Green, Arko Art Center, Seoul, ROK |
| EYTJ, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO | |
| Science Fiction, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Collective Show New York 2010, PARTICIPANT Inc., New York, NY | |
| Day Glow, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD | |
| Magicality, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA | |
| The Hendersons Will All Be There, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Chunky Monkey, Red Flagg, New York, NY |
| Scenariette, Possible Projects, Brooklyn, NY | |
| HomeBase IV, a site-specific exhibition, New York, NY | |
| 2008 | Video A: Miguel Soares and Letha Wilson, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
| There's No Place Like Utopia, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY | |
| 2007 | Between to and from, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ |
| Merit Badge 2, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY | |
| Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys, Contemporary Art Fox Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Landscape Architects, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY | |
| 2006 | The Searchers (curated by Patricia Maloney), White Box, New York, NY |
| The Peekskill Project 2006, Peekskill, NY | |
| Paradise Lost, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY | |
| The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY | |
| 2005 | Exit Biennial II: Traffic, Exit Art, New York, NY |
| No Apology for Breathing, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY. | |
| Red, White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | AIM 24, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY |
| Residencies and Grants | |
| 2017 | Artist in Residence at Univeristy of Nevada, Las Vagas, NV |
| 2014-2015 | Marie Walsh Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York, NY |
| 2013 | New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Deutsche Bank Fellow) |
| The Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Travel and Study Grant | |
| Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, CA | |
| 2012 | The Santo Foundation, Individual Artist Grant |
| Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship, The Yaddo Foundation | |
| Farpath Foundation Grant and Residency, Dijon, F | |
| 2011 | Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist-in-Residence |
| 2010 | Smack Mellon Hot Picks |
| BRIC Rotunda Gallery Artist of the Month February 2010 | |
| 2009 | Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award |
| Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship | |
| Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowship and Artist Residency | |
| 2004 | Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts |
| Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Art Grant | |
| 2000 | Hunter College Exchange Scholarship |
| 1998 | Orlin Prize, Honors Thesis Project “Artspace: Art Beyond Academia" |
| Augusta Hazard Painting Award, Syracuse University Painting Dept. | |
