Andrew I. Wilson
Muddy Water / Pot Liquor, 2015-2021
cyanotype on cotton, toned, hand quilted
77 x 51 1/2 in.
"Care is a tool of trans-dimensional travel. It looks like the fabrics my grandmother stashed under her bed after she was evicted from San Francisco. It is the difference between the handmade and the mass produced. My work, is a meditation on slow craft and how this slowness collects, amplifies and transports the viewer through care. It is the way I peer into the archive and interrogate the histories that shape the fabric of Blackness.
I’ve been contemplating utilitarian objects and the edge of their utility – whether they be ritual or household (I guess, in a sense, they are one-in-the-same). In searching for this edge, I find myself thinking about how these objects become ways to amplify the spirit particles ingrained into their structure through human contact – like a hat, quilt or door. Once collected and amplified, these particles can be used to move across dimensions – much like the way a quilt from a loved one connects the user and maker outside of time. In essence, I am hoping to make objects that are filled with care and honor all of those who have come before and those who will come after."
Andrew Wilson received his BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 2013 with a concentration in Jewelry/Metals and his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2017. Wilson’s work has been in many galleries and institutions including: The Berkeley Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts, and the Museum of the African Diaspora. He has received such awards and honors as: the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Carr Center Independent Scholars
Fellowship, the McColl Center and more.
He has also worked with Carrie Mae Weems on The Spirit that Resides in Havana, Cuba alongside the Havana Biennial and The Future is Now Parade for the opening of The REACH in Washington D.C.
His work has been collected by Michigan State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, and the University of New Mexico.
ANDREW I. WILSON
Born 1991, Oakland, CA
Lives and works in Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
MFA 2017 University of California, Berkeley | Art Practice
BFA 2013 Ohio Wesleyan University | Jewelry/Metals Concentration
TEACHING
2023 Make your own Baseball Caps, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Cyanotype Workshop, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2022 Glass Cyanotype, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Professional Practices, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2021 Professional Practices, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Glass Cyanotype, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2019 Cyanotype 101, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Oakland, CA
Bookmaking from Pamphlet to Casebound, MetWest High School, Oakland, CA
Coptic Bookbinding Workshop, Ashara Ekundayo Gallery, Oakland, CA
2017 Art 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking, University of California, Berkeley
Just As You Are, Brave New Voices 2017, San Francisco, CA
2016 Wearing our Stories, Michigan State University
AWARDS AND HONORS
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY
2017 Emerging Artist Program Awardee, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2016 Jack K. & Gertrude Murphy Awardee, The San Francisco Foundation
2015 Perspectives on African American Experience: Emerging Visions Artist in Residence, Michigan State University
Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
Honorable Mention, http://www.inprint-is.com/andrew-wilson, InPrint-Is
2014 Special Merit Award, lightspacetime.com, All Photography Art Exhibition - February 2014
2013 Best in 2D, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2013 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2012 Best in 3D, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2012 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2011 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Equivalencies: Abandoned Bodies, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2017 #FRUIT, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 The Colored Museum, OMI Gallery, Oakland, CA
red, black and GREEN: a blues, Gallery Installation, Z Space, San Francisco, CA
Pop Up Show, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Sweet Noir, Werner Art Gallery, Delaware, OH
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography, Fine Arts Gallery, SF State, San Francisco, CA
WEDNESDAY F!RE, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2021 Culture Makes Profit, Coeur415, San Francisco, CA
I AM, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Parable 003, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
It Blooms At Night, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2020 Roots and Roads, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2019 The Spirit that Resides, Magnan Gallery, Havana, Cuba
Beyond Space, The Contemporary, Detroit, MI
New York Arts Program 50th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY
Unspoken, San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Secret Santa, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 MFA Now 2016, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Dred Scott: Past, Present, Future, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Dear SF, Love Berkeley, Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, SomARTS, San Francisco, CA
Material Realities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Roll a Zero, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
The Boston Biennial 4, Boston, MA
Change Agents: Personal Art as Political Tactic, Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2015 Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
3.19 Converge // Foodie, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Queeriosity 2015, LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA
InPrint-Is, http://www.inprint-is.com/andrew-wilson
2014 All Photography Art Exhibition, LightSpaceTime.com February 2014
For Marian, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
Benefit Show, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
4th Annual Holiday Art Exhibit, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Marks Made, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
Art Bruh Bruh, The Spot, Oakland CA
Incursion/Recursion, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Unabridged: A Benefit Show for Victims of Sandy, New York, NY
NYAP Student Art Show, Mew York, NY
The Soul of Objects, Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2011 Best of: Student Exhibition, Werner Gallery, Delaware, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2010 Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2009 Five Colleges Show, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
RESIDENCIES
2022 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2021 Ebb and Teena Haycock Public Art Residency, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2020 McColl Center Residency, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC
Creatives in Place, San Francisco, CA
2019 Independent Scholars Fellowship, Carr Center, Detroit, MI
2016 Perspectives on African American Experience: Emerging Visions Artist in Residence, Michigan State University
HEREKEKE Artist Residency, HEREKEKE Arts Center, Lama, NM
PERFORMANCES
2021 Artists in Dialogue, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2019 The Future is Now with Carrie Mae Weems, REACH at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
The Man Was Rejected with Carrie Mae Weems, Black Artist Retreat, New York, NY
2018 Afro-Queer Masquerade, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2016 Take this Hammer: Ten Bay Area Artists Respond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2020 collymore, nan and The Black Aesthetic Curatorial Collective, Eds. The Black Aesthetic Season III:
Black Interiors. Oakland, Wolfman Books, 2020
2018 deSouza, Allan. How Art Can Be Taught: A Handbook for Change. Durham, Duke University
Press, 9 November 2018
2017 Batts, Jamal. “To Be Held.” THE DIASPORA, Fall 2016, 13-19.
2014 Cotter, Holland. “’For Marian’.” Review of For Marian. New York Times, 27 March 2014.
2013 Youse, Ellen. “Many mediums, one struggle in ‘Sweet Noir’.” The Transcript, 20 February 2013, p. 7.
Rosen, Ariel. “SFAQ Review: “Incursion/Recursion” Group Exhibition in the Room for Big Ideas (RBI) at Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco.” Review or Incursion/Recursion by Tom Loughlin, Senalka McDonald, Heather Sparks and Andrew Wilson. SFAQ, 5 December 2013.
COLLECTIONS
Carrie Mae Weems, Syracuse, NY
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Special Collections, University of Michigan, East Lansing, MI
The Flood Family Collection, San Francisco, CA
Fine Arts Department, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Andrew I. Wilson
Muddy Water / Pot Liquor, 2015-2021
cyanotype on cotton, toned, hand quilted
77 x 51 1/2 in.
