
WILMER WILSON IV
TAR B
2018, staples and pigment print on wood, 96 x 48 x 1.5 inches.
WILMER WILSON IV
TAR B (detail)
2018, staples and pigment print on wood, 96 x 48 x 1.5 inches.
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
2015. Performance: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
WILMER WILSON IV
Study for Priestess Faust Walk (Rome, Italy)
2014, silver gelatin print, 11 x 14 inches, ed: 7.
Wilmer Wilson IV
Untitled (Back, Front, Shoulder) - Triptych
2012-14, archival pigment print, 45 x 29 inches each, ed: 7 + 2AP.
WILMER WILSON IV
Black Mask
2012, single-channel video, run time: 5:56, ed: 5.
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WILMER WILSON IV
Self Portrait as a Model Citizen
2012, archival pigment print, 45 x 30 inches, ed: 5.
WILMER WILSON
Shed Skin (1¢/2¢/5¢)
2012, postage stamps (paper, adhesive), DNA, dimensions variable.
WILMER WILSON IV
Henry Box Brown: FOREVER Day 3: Congress
2012, archival pigment print, 16 x 20 inches, ed: 7.
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.
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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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