Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals.
Exhibitions in 2014 include “Thread Lines” at The Drawing Center in NYC and “Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present” originating at the ICA Boston and traveling to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Wexner Center for the Arts. In 2013 Wilson’s solo exhibition “Dispersions” opened at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and her work was included in the “Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber” at the Zhejiang Art Museum in China. In 2012 Wilson participated in the “Global Threads” exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England. Her 2011 solo exhibitions include “Rewinds” at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and “Local Industry” at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Her work has been included in numerous shows internationally. She was included in the “2002 Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and her solo exhibition entitled “Anne Wilson: Anatomy of Wear” was presented in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Wilson is the recipient of grants from the Driehaus Foundation, Artadia, the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council. Wilson’s work is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. She is a Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The College of Arts & Sciences and the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts gratefully acknowledge Dr. Meredith McKinney (BA ’65 and MD ’68) and Mrs. Elsa Luise Barthel McKinney (BA – ’65) for their love of the arts and for their generous support in endowing the McKinney Visiting Artist Series at Indiana University Bloomington.
Cost: Free and open to the public
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Betsy Stirratt
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