Letha Wilson

Letha Wilson (born 1976, Honolulu) is an American artist working in photography and sculpture.[1][2] She received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA from Hunter College.[1] She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.[3] Her work has been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, and Hauser & Wirth, among others.[3]

Letha Wilson
Born1976
Honolulu, HI
NationalityAmerican
EducationBFA, Syracuse University; MFA, Hunter College
OccupationArtist

In 2013, Wilson was the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography. Wilson was also awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel Grant in 2014.[3] She has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[4] In July 2018, Wilson was recognized by Artsy through her inclusion on their list of 'These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward'.[5]

Career

Wilson often combines large-scale landscape photographs with sculptural elements of metal and concrete, challenging the two-dimensional nature of traditional photography.[6] She is influenced by the landscape of the American West and by the land artists of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Michael Heizer.[4] In the creation of her work, she often cuts or folds her photographic prints. She works with both darkroom and digital photography, as well as with C-prints and emulsion transfers.[4][7]

Exhibitions

2018 "Fold and Unfold: Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson", at MACRO, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy's

    "Horizon Eyes" at Grimm Gallery in New York City(March 18-April 22, 2018).[8]

2017 "In The Abstract" at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA and

Awards

2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

References

  1. "Letha Wilson - Grimm Gallery". Grimm Gallery. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. "Letha Wilson - Art in America". Art in America. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. "Letha Wilson". Light Work. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. "An Analog Path for Photography". Hyperallergic. 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  5. Thackara, Tess. "These 20 Female Artists Are Pushing Sculpture Forward". artsy.net. Artsy. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  6. "Two Artists Tear, Sew, and Fold the Limits of Photography". Creators. 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  7. "Letha Wilson at Galerie Christophe Gaillard". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  8. "Editors' Picks: 14 Things to See in New York This Week". artnet News. 2018-03-26. Retrieved 2018-07-18.
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