WILMER WILSON IV
works from staple series, Installation view: New Museum Triennial 2018
staples and pigment print on wood, 96 x 48 x 1.5 inches
WILMER WILSON IV
Measures Not Men (view 1)
2017, salt blocks, aluminum, wood, 8 x 20 x 6.25 feet (96.5 x 236 x 75 inches, 245 x 600 x 190 cm). Installation view: Fire Bill's Spook Kit, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium.
WILMER WILSON IV
2017, salt blocks, aluminum, wood, 8 x 20 x 6.25 feet (96.5 x 236 x 75 inches, 245 x 600 x 190 cm). Installation view: Fire Bill's Spook Kit, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium.
WILMER WILSON IV
Priestess Faust Walk (Crown)
2015, Boston, MA lottery tickets, wire, pins, dimensions variable.
WILMER WILSON IV
Priestess Faust Walk
2015. Performance: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
WILMER WILSON IV
Channel
2017, Performance: Person of the Crowd, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WILMER WILSON IV
a long pane beat in
2017, cords, cellphones, CRT televisions with X-ray photograph, dimensions variable. Installation view: The Barnes Foundation.
WILMER WILSON IV
Portrait with Hydrogen Peroxide Strips
2016, inkjet on paper, 15 x 12 inches, ed: 3.
Performance: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2016.
WILMER WILSON IV
Domestic Exchange
2012. Installation view: Conner Contemporary Art.
WILMER WILSON IV
From My Paper Bag Colored Heart
2012. Performance: Conner Contemporary Art.
WILMER WILSON IV
Faust in the City
2013, performance artifacts. Installation view: CONNERSMITH.
WILMER WILSON IV
March 2012. Endurance performance: Volta NY.
WILMER WILSON IV
Faust in the City
2013, performance artifacts. Installation view: CONNERSMITH.
Wilmer Wilson IV
From My Paper Bag Colored Heart performance, 2012.
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Wilmer Wilson IV
Henry "Box" Brown: FOREVER, performance, 2012.
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Wilmer Wilson IV (b. 1989, Richmond, VA) is critically recognized for performative investigations into the marginalization of, and the care for, Black bodies in everyday social relation.
He is the recipient of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship and The American Academy in Rome Fellowship. Wilson’s work has been presented at The New Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; American University Museum, Washington, DC; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium among others.
by Jacoba Urist
by Sarah Tanguy
Published by the International Sculpture Center
By Holland Cotter
"Wilmer Wilson IV appropriates objects common to his socio-economic experience, manipulating their original intention to absurd degrees."
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