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Fred Wilson (born 1954) is an American artist. He describes himself as of "African, Native American, European and Amerindian" descent.〔(Rena Bransten Gallery articles )〕 Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2003.〔(Rena Bransten Gallery biography )〕 In May 2008, it was announced that Wilson would become a Whitney Museum trustee replacing Chuck Close.〔Vogel, Carol. "Lauder Steps Down as Whitney Museum Chairman." The New York Times. 27 May 2008. ()〕 Wilson is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. ==Career== An alumnus of Music & Art High School in New York, Wilson received a BFA from SUNY Purchase in 1976, where he was the only black student in his program.〔 He says that he no longer has a strong desire to make things with his hands. “I get everything that satisfies my soul,” he says, “from bringing together objects that are in the world, manipulating them, working with spatial arrangements, and having things presented in the way I want to see them.”〔(PBS art:21 biography )〕 An installation artist and political activist, Wilson's subject is social justice and his medium is museology. In the 1970s, he worked as a free-lance museum educator for the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Crafts Museum. Beginning in the late 1980s, Wilson used his insider skills to create a series of "mock museums" that address how museums consciously or unwittingly reinforce racist beliefs and behaviors.〔Stein, Judith E. "Sins of Omission." Art in America. October 1993. pp. 110-115.〕 In his 1992 seminal work co-organized with The Contemporary Museum, “Mining the Museum,” Wilson reshuffled the Maryland Historical Society’s collection to highlight the history of Native and African Americans in Maryland. In 2001, he was the subject of a retrospective, ''Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000'', organized by Maurice Berger for the Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore County. The show traveled to numerous venues, including the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum of Art, Blaffer Art Gallery (University of Houston), Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY), The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Museum in Harlem. For the 2003 Venice Biennale, Wilson created a multi-media installation which borrowed its title from a line in "Othello." His elaborate Venice work, "Speak of Me as I Am," focused on representations of Africans in Venetian culture.〔 In 2007 Fred Wilson was invited to be a part of the Indianapolis, Indiana Cultural trail. Wilson proposed to redo the sole African American depicted in the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in downtown Indianapolis. The African American depicts a recently freed slave reaching up to lady liberty. Wilson planned on using a scan of the African American to make an entirely new work, which would give the African American a more proud and strong posture, holding a flag composed of all of the African countries' flags.〔http://www.fredwilsonindy.org/aboutproject.html〕 The proposed work was entitled, E Pluribus Unum, and was met with much controversy, eventually leading to the project's rejection. 2011 saw the publication of ''Fred Wilson: A Critical Reader'' by Ridinghouse, edited by Doro Globus. An anthology of critical texts about and interviews with the artist, this publication focuses on the artist's pivotal exhibitions and projects, and includes a wide range of significant texts that mark the critical reception of Wilson's work over the last two decades.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ridinghouse.co.uk/publications/53/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Wilson (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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