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Education
2009 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine (US)
2003 Hunter College, New York (US) Master of Fine Arts, combined media concentration
2001 Exchange semester at the Glasgow School of Art MFA Program, Glasgow (UK)
1998 Syracuse University; Syracuse (US) College of Visual & Performing Arts, painting major Bachelor of Fine Arts with
Honors
1997 Exchange semester with Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs Abroad; Florence (IT)
Honors & Awards
2019 NYSCA / NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography
2014 The Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Travel and Study Grant (US)
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Deutsche Bank Fellow) in Photography (Also nominated in
Architecture / Environmental Structures) (US)
2012 The Santo Foundation, Individual Artist Grant (US)
2009 Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award (US)
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship (US)
Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowship, New Mexico (US)
2004 Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts (US)
Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Art Grant (US)
2000 Hunter College Exchange Scholarship (US)
1998 Orlin Prize, Honors Thesis Project “Artspace: Art Beyond Academia" (US)
Augusta Hazard Painting Award, Syracuse University Painting Dept. (US)
Residencies
2018 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (US)
2017 University of Nevada, Las Vegas, CA (US)
2015 Montello Foundation, Montello, NV (US)
2014 Marie Walsh Sharpe, Walentas Studio Program, New York, NY (US)
2013 Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, Sausalito, CA (US)
2012 Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship, The Yaddo Foundation, New York, NY (US)
Farpath Foundation Grant and Residency, Dijon (FR)
2011 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Artist-in-Residence, Omaha, NE (US)
2010 Smack Mellon Hot Picks, Brooklyn, NY (US)
BRIC Rotunda Gallery Artist of the Month, February 2010, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2009 Santa Fe Art Institute Fellowship and Artist Residency, Santa Fe, NM (US)
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Cross Country, GRIMM Keizersgracht, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Horizon Eyes, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
BAMbill Cover Artist: Letha Wilson, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (US)
2017 Shadows and Sunlight, Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, PNCA, Portland, OR (US)
2016 Surface Moves, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (FR)
2015 Look with Your Hands, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Sight specific, Light Work, Syracuse, NY (US)
Terra Firma, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)
2014 Letha Wilson, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (US)
Letha Wilson, Galerie Christophe Gallard, Paris (FR)
2013 Letha WIlson: Landmarks and Monuments, Art in General, New York, NY (US)
2012 Letha Wilson, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (US)
2011 Punch the Sky, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2009 Lost Horizons, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY (US)
Lines Through the Wilderness, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY (US)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (US) [upcoming]
The Mushroom Show, SARDINE, New York, NY (US)
New Landscapes: Contemporary Responses to Globalization, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth University,
Hanover (US)
Away in the Hill, GRIMM New York, NY (US)
From the Ground Up, organized by New York Foundation for the Arts. McKinsey & Co., New York, NY (US)
After Cities. Letha Wilson & Jeff Williams. FJORD, Philadelphia, PA (US)
AXxoN N.: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch’s Inland Empire, organized by Jonathan Ehrenberg and Sean
McCarthy, Essex Flowers, New York, NY (US)
2018 Still Life, September Gallery, Hudson, NY (US)
Follow that Thought. The Drake, Toronto, ON (CA)
Pop-up GRIMM, Brussels (BE)
2017 In the Abstract, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (US)
Bearable Lightness of Being, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Paper Covers Rock: Brie Ruais and Letha Wilson, September, Hudson, NY (US)
The Newest Romantics: Sculptors of Botanic Photography, curated by Kelsey Halliday Johnson, New Art Center,
Newton, MA (US)
PLATFORM 19: Letha Wilson, Hawaii California Steel (Figure Ground), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,
Lincoln, MA (US)
Light & Matter: The Photographic Object, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA (US)
Objectifying the Photograph, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb IL (US)
Provisional Landscapes, Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY (US)
Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, The FLAG Art Foundation, New
York, NY (US)
2016 Fold and Unfold: Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson, MACRO Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea, Rome(IT)
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (US)
Face to Face, curated by Eugenio Viola, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno (IT)
Episode 10, Stems Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Out of Obscurity, Curated by Chris Littlewood, Flowers, London (UK)
Fine Words Butter no Parsnips However Fine Parsnips Can Butter Words, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene, University at Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY (US)
Collector's Summer #1, Galerie Gaillard, Paris (FR)
Land Escapes, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Contingent Matter, Parisian Laundry, Paris (FR)
Cuts, Shapes, Scrapes and Breaks, Seventeen Gallery, London (UK)
2015 Weird Science, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY (US)
Rachel de Joode, Kate Steciw & Letha Wilson, Martos Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Distance: Richard T. Walker & Letha Wilson, CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA (US)
Touch-tone, Martos Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Not a Photo, The Hole, New York, NY (US)
Catfish, Anat Egbi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US)
I am What I am Not Yet, A Survey of Brooklyn's Moment, Curated by Diana Buckley, Madelyn
Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY (US)
Mine. Yours. Ours. The Contemporary American Landscape, Center For Photography at
Woodstock, NY (US)
An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery,Ewing, NJ (US)
Zabriskie Point, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY (US)
How to Drape the Concrete, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris (FR)
River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home, Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY (US)
State Park, University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, CA (US)
Picture/Thing, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (US)
2014 What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (US)
Fixed Variable, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (US)
Jason Middlebrook and Letha Wilson, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY (US)
the mysterious device was moving forward, Longhouse Projects, New York, NY (US)
Ain’things, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Fruit/Flowers/Appliances, LVL3, Chicago, IL (US)
Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan (IT)
Implicit Horizon, Mixed Greens, New York, NY (US)
Ad Infinitum, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington (US)
Broken Surface Artificial Matter, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton (US)
Road Trip: America Through the Windshield, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT (US)
Letha Wilson, Pablo Jansana, Evan Nesbit, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY (US)
Sargent's Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2013 The First 15: The Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo, The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (US)
Haptic Translations, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA (US)
With Cinder Blocks We Flatten Our Photographs, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA (US)
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY (US)
Clear Cut, G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (CA)
2012 New New York, Essl Museum, Vienna (AT)
NeoNatural, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (US)
After Image: The Photographic Process(ed), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA (US)
There’s Something Happening Here, Grimaldi Gavin, London (UK)
Black Foliage, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD (US)
Grounded, curated by Rico Gatson, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Earth WORKS: Ten Artists on Land and Industry, P.P.O.W., New York, NY (US)
Leave it to Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL (US)
B19, Long Island University Brooklyn, Humanities Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Photography Is, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (US)
Brooklyn Bound, Nazareth College Arts Center, Rochester, NY (US)
In the Corner of My Eye, Drake Hotel, Toronto (CA)
The Big Stink Moves Like a Moth Toward the Light, Hungryman Gallery, Chicago, IL (US)
Amalgam, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY (US)
What I Know, Curated by Jason Andrew, NYCAMS, New York, NY (US)
Placemakers, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE (US)
Aude Pariset, Kate Steciw & Letha Wilson, Toomer Labdza, New York, NY (US)
2011 BAM Next Wave Art, Curated by Dan Cameron, BAM, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Project Space, Stene Projects, Stockholm (SE)
ROY G BIV, Curated by Trong G. Nguyen, Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, NY (US)
Composite Materialism, SPACE Gallery, Portland, OR (US)
A J.J. Holdings Affair, J.J. Holdings and Friends, New York, NY (US)
The Death of Affect, Art Blog Art Blog, New York, NY (US)
This is the Same as That: Dave Murray and Letha Wilson, LVL3, Chicago, IL (US)
Late Summer Blues, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Every Photo Graph Is Invisible, Churner and Churner, New York, NY (US)
Dawn Till’ Dusk, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, New York, NY (US)
Nature Unframed, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL (US)
New Monuments, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY (US)
The Working Title, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY (US)
Groundwork, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Mirrored Thoughts/Spaces Between, Curated by Stephanie Adamowicz, Spattered Columns
Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Summer Time, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Matinee, Curated by Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Patrick Brennan, St. Cecilia's Convent, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Off Camera, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (US)
2010 Tide Pool part of SHOP 2010 section, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Greening Green, Arko Art Center, Seoul (KR)
EYTJ, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO (US)
Science Fiction, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Day Glow, Nudashank Gallery, Baltimore, MD (US)
Magicality, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA (US)
The Hendersons Will All Be There, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY (US)
2009 Chunky Monkey, Red Flagg, New York, NY (US)
Scenariette, Possible Projects, Brooklyn, NY (US)
HomeBase IV, a site-specific exhibition, New York, NY (US)
2008 Video A: Miguel Soares and Letha Wilson, The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (US)
There's No Place Like Utopia, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (US)
2007 Between to and from, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (US)
Merit Badge 2, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY (US)
Locations of Elsewhere, Peer Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Points of Departure: Inner and Outer Journeys of Contemporary Art, Fox Gallery at the
University of Pennsylvania, PA (US)
Landscape Architects, The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY (US)
2006 Heartfelt, 96 Gillespie, London (UK)
The Searchers, curated by Patricia Maloney, White Box, New York, NY (US)
The Peekskill Project 2006, Peekskill, NY (US)
Paradise Lost, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, NY (US)
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY (US)
2005 Exit Biennial II: Traffic, Exit Art, New York, NY (US)
No Apology for Breathing, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY (US)
Red, White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2004 AIM 24, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (US)
Re: Construct, PH Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Selected Collections
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, MA (US)
EKARD Collection
Hood Museum of Art, NH (US)
ING Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
New York Public Library, NY (US)
University of Maryland, MD (US)