Will Wilson

William Wilson (born 1969) is a Native American photographer and a citizen of the Navajo Nation.

Early life and education Wilson was born in San Francisco in 1969, but spent his childhood growing up on the Navajo Nation. He attended the government boarding school in Tuba City through 8th grade and was then plucked from the reservation and sent to Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts with a scholarship from the "A Better Chance (ABC)" Foundation. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate with a major in studio art and art history, and obtained a Master's of Fine Arts in photography at the University of New Mexico.

He has been an artist-in-residence at the School for Advanced Research. In February 2016, Wilson's work was included as a counterpoint to a large show of Edward Curtis photographs at the Portland Art Museum. In 2017, he won the New Mexico Governor’s Excellence in Art Award.

Wilson previously taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Oberlin, University of Arizona, and Santa Fe Community College. In 2020, he was Artist-in-Residence at Yale University Art Gallery. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Studio Art (Photography & Media), at the University of Texas at Austin.