Biography

Born in 1983 in the United States, he is a visual artist, filmmaker, curator, and lecturer based between Europe and the US. Working across video, sculpture, photography, and performance, Wilson received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. He is best known for Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011), which critically examines Google’s labour practices. His work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Getty Museum, Centre Pompidou, LUMA Arles, MoMA PS1, and the Gwangju and Berlin Biennials. His films have screened at Sundance, the New York Film Festival, and IFFR. Wilson has lectured at Oxford University, Harvard University, Universität der Künste Berlin, and CalArts.