Marion Wilson

Marion Wilson is an American artist whose mixed media installations have gained critical attention.

Education In 1983, Marion Wilson received her B.A. in Studio Art from Wesleyan University. She received her M.A. in Urban Pedagogy from Columbia University in 1990, and her M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati in 1993.

Wilson has been acknowledged for her "'Last Suppers' series of mixed-media installations that focus on the final meals of famous killers. The series combines video, photography and sculpture to comment on what Wilson perceives is the irony inherent in offering a condemned man his last supper." Commissioned for the "Counter Culture" exhibition at the New Museum, Wilson set up an art-vending cart outside the Bowery Mission, an organization for the homeless. She made small sculptures from common objects cast in resin, hair sculpture, knitted scarves. She bartered and traded skills and objects with people on the LES and ran the business with three men served at the Bowery Mission.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions 2016 // Schuylkill Center for Art and Environment 2015 // Pulse Art Fair Miami, Frederieke Taylor Gallery 2005 // -scopeNewYork, guest installation artist 2004 // -scopeMiami, "This Store Too", guest performance artist, curated by Melanie Cohn, New Museum 2004 // ARTWALK NY, "This Store Too", installation, New School, NY 2003 // Remnants of Luxury in Forbidden Play, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York 2003 // Distilled Lives, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, catalog 2003 // Marion Wilson, Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY 2000 // Playing War, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, video/public project, funded by Gunk Foundation 1999 // Playing War, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 1999 // Marion Wilson: Recent Work, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 1998 // Boy and Memory Rags, Olean Public Art Gallery, Olean, NY 1996 // Automata Urban Poems and Other Dead Things (Performance and installation in an Armory Square storefront,) Syracuse, NY 1995 // Abjections/Devotions; Two person exhibition, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1994 // Corporeal Investigations, George Ayers Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee, TN 1994 // Marion Wilson: Corpus Politik, Thomas Moore College, KY, Visiting Artist 1993 // Corpus Politik, Tangeman Gallery, University of Cincinnati 2014 // I-81 Urban Rest Stop, Public Art Project; NEA funded, curated by Marc Norman 2013 // Transporting, IDEAS City; New Museum/Arts Brookfield in Battery Park City, Artist in Resident in Habitat for Artists; Battery Park City, curated by Amy Lipton/Simon Draper 2010-2013 // Complete Design/Build of 601 Tully (Center for Engaged Research); affiliate of Syracuse University. Led a team of 54 neighbors and students in the complete re-design/build/sustain of an abandoned residence—turned drug house in the ninth-poorest neighborhood in America—the near westside of Syracuse - as an artist driven neighborhood revitalization project. 601 Tully now supports artists, neighbors and university in the co-production of new culture through residencies, exhibitions and public projects. 2009 // Museum of the City of Lost and Found (solo project in group exhibition); KK Projects, New Orleans Biennial; commissioned a new work in the form of a mobile bicycle structure that collected, housed, travelled and interpreted objects of loss and findings. 2008 // MLAB (transformed 1984 American Eagle RV into mobile literacy arts bus gallery, classroom and digital lab for Syracuse city public schools). Led a design build team of nine in the complete renovation of MLAB. 2004 // Counter Culture, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC