NEWS
Upcoming catalogue– Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, PREORDER NOW!
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS:
GROUP EXHIBITION: Slight of Hand: A Small Works Invitational, MEPAINTSME, November 12 – December 24, 2024
RECENT PRESS, INTERVIEWS, PODCASTS:
PRESS: From ‘Tiny Pricks’ to public monuments: 9 art shows with big questions about our country as Election Day nears: Here’s how artists are meeting the political moment, The Boston Globe, by
PRESS: The Approval Matrix, New York Magazine, compiled by Dominique Pariso and Chris Stanton,
PRESS: What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August, The New York Times,Jillian Steinhauer, August 14, 2024
PRESS: artnet, What I’m Looking At: Museum-Quality Malcolm Morley, Borna Sammak’s Beautiful Scenesters, and More: Highlights from New York galleries from the last few weeks. by Ben Davis, July 25, 2024
PRESS: ‘Jelly’s Last Jam,’ an expert’s guide to the Getty and the L.A. culture kicking off Memorial Day weekend, Los Angeles Times, by Craig Nakano, May 25, 2024
PRESS: A ‘Wonderland’ Adventure in the Bronx, The New York Times, bApril 24, 2024
BOOK: Aldridge, Taylor Renee, ed. All These Liberations: Women Artists in the Eileen Harris Norton Collection. New Haven: Yale University Press.
TALK: Made With a Wink: Play and Wonder in the Art of Paula Wilson presented by: Surface Design Association and Tang Museum’s Curator Rebecca McNamara.
PRESS: HYPERALLERGIC: Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Fall, August 29, 2023
PRESS: ARTSY | 28 Overlooked Black Artists to Discover This Black History Month by Ayanna Dozier, Feb 1, 2023
PRESS: HYPERALLERGIC Review by Rachel Harris-Huffman, “How Do We Embody Natural Spaces? Nicola López and Paula Wilson’s exhibition Becoming Land considers anthropocentric relationships with New Mexico’s desert landscapes.” January 30, 2023
PRESS: The New Yorker, “Goings On About Town”, Paula Wilson: Imago, Johanna Fateman, October 3rd, 2022
INTERVIEW: BOMB Magazine, Turning to the Light, Paula Wilson Interviewed by Heidi Howard
PODCAST: PEP TALKS FOR ARTISTS Ep 37: Interview w/ Paula Wilson
PRESS: Artnet, 13 Buzzy Back-to-School Gallery Shows to See During Armory Week, Sarah Cascone, September 6, 2022
PRESS: Plein Air Is a Sobering Reminder of Human Impact on the Environment, Hyperallergic, Thao Votang, August 29, 2022
PAST:
GROUP EXHIBITION: Wonderland: Curious Nature, New York Botanical Garden, a group exhibition curated by Jennifer Gross, May 18–October 27, 2024, Bronx, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION: What Is Seen, Girls’ Club, curated by Tayina Deravile, August 30 – October 4, 2024, Fort Lauderdale, FL
GROUP EXHIBITION: WAVE Contemporary and Well Well Projects bring you Orbit, a curatorial project highlighting film, animations, and moving images organized by Marcelo Fontana and Chris Ticas, and curated by Jamie Isenstein, Gian Spina, and Tilsa Otta. Presented in partnership with Oregon Contemporary. August 19 – Oct 6, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: off the pedestal, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, MA, through, October 31, 2024
SOLO EXHIBITION: The Wind Keeps Time, at 55 Walker (Andrew Kreps Gallery, Bortolami Gallery, kaufmann repetto), New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION: Prints, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, July 13 – August 17, 2024
SOLO EXHIBITION: Toward the Sky’s Back Door, California African-American Museum (CAAM), May 22 – August 18, 2024, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITION: SELF (CONTAINED), Ryan Lee Gallery, Curated by Elizabeth Denny and Katie Alice Fitz Gerald, June 27 – August 16, 2024, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITION: Eco-Pulse: Rise and Fall, Hindsight Insight 4.0, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, 2024
Life Spiral on view within George Rush’s exhibition Make-believe Love, ESCOLAR, 2110 Dennis Lane, Santa Rosa, CA, July 20-August 16
GROUP EXHIBITION: There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art at Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, Mar 16, 2024 – May 26, 2024
GROUP EXHIBITION: Chicken and the Egg, Towson University’s Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, Maryland, February 2-April 13, 2024
Toward the Sky’s Back Door, solo exhibition at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, July 15 – December 30th, 2023
Plein Air, a group exhibition organized by Aurora Tang, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, through December, 10th, 2023.
Transcendental Arrangements, curated by Elizabeth Chodos, Miller Institute for Contemporary Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Opening July 29th, 2023 through September 3rd, 2023
Ashley Bryan | Paula Wilson Take the World Into Your Arms, curated by Jennifer Gross at the Colby College Museum of Art’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center, Waterville, Maine, through July 31st, 2023
There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX, February 3 – May 14, 2023
Diurnal/Nocturnal, curated by Mark Dion, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, through March 23rd, 2023
Irresistible Revolutions, Southwestern University Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown, TX, 2023
Plein Air, a group exhibition organized by Aurora Tang, MOCA Tucson, through March 12th, 2023
Albuquerque Museum, Nicola López and Paula Wilson: Becoming Land through February 12th. The exhibition is part of a larger umbrella of shows titled: Historic and Contemporary Landscapes including work by Thomas Cole and Kiki Smith.
Be Wild. Bewilder, solo exhibition at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, through Jan 21, 2023.
Imago, solo exhibition, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY, Opening September 9th – October 29th, 2022
The Wild and The Tame, Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong – June 11 – September 4, 2022
Tamarind Institute at Pie Projects, Pie Projects, Santa Fe, NM, August 6 – August 13, 2022 Closing Public Reception: August 13, 4 – 6 pm.
Lunarian, a group exhibition at Denny Dimin Gallery HONG KONG, 01.22.2022 – 03.16.2022
Yucca Rising, 2021
188 x 188 inches
ink (processes: woodblock print, relief print, trace monoprint, monotype), acrylic, and oil on muslin
There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art, curated by Elizabeth S. Humphrey, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME, 2021-2022
Mobilizing The Land Scape: Contemporary Artists Explore Landscape and Place, Curated by Emily Noelle Lambert, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College, September 9 – December 14, 2021
A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, curated by Delita Martin and Tanekeya Word, Minneapolis, MN, SEPTEMBER 24 – DECEMBER 4, 2021
“A Conversation about Public Art and Monuments” on Oregon Public Radio’s Think Out Loud broadcast.
Beckwith Lecture: Paula Wilson & Faith Wilding, moderated by Angelina Gualdoni, Painting faculty, SMFA, October 28, 6pm
Join us for our fall 2021 Beckwith guest lecturers, Paula Wilson and Faith Wilding. These artists are featured in conversation in the Grossman Gallery at SMFA / Boston. Wilson and Wilding both draw from the physical environment to engage with cultural and natural histories. Their works are part of the multivenue exhibition, Staying with the Trouble, also on view at the Aidekman Arts Center / Medford. The exhibition proposes strategies and coping mechanisms for navigating the current political and socioeconomic climate, which seems to be simultaneously slipping backward into the archaic and forward into the apocalyptic.
In the Desert: Mooning // collagraph on muslin from two plates, handprinted collage on muslin and inkjet collage on silk, mounted on canvas and wood // 69 ½ x 43 ¾ // edition of 10 // made in collaboration with Island Press // 2016
Eye to I: Self-Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, Albuquerque Museum, June 12-September 12, 2021
Marking Time / Making Space, Blue Galleries at Boise State University, Boise, ID, 2021
Art on Paper 2021 with Tamarind Institute, Pier 36 | 299 South Street, New York, NY 10002, September 9-12.
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Virtual DEMONSTRATION: PAULA WILSON & MIKE LAGG, INTIMATE RESTRUCTURING,
FREDERICK HAMMERSLEY VISITING ARTIST
Through this program, visiting artists are provided with a beautiful studio to work in close proximity to Department of Art graduate students. In addition to conducting studio visits with the Fine Arts Graduate candidates, the Visiting artists have several points of contact with UNM students and the local community, including a public lecture, workshops and an open studio event.
On being mindful of where we put our attention–Interview in the Creative Independent, February 4th, 2021
Paula Wilson : On High, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
November 21, 2020 – January 23, 2021.
Drawn: Concept & Craft, curated by Tomas Vu and Wendy Earle, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 2020-2021.
On View September 16, 2020 – February 15, 2021
- TAMARIND TALKS: PAULA WILSON
SPONSORED BY UNM’S AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT SERVICES AND TAMARIND INSTITUTE, in conjunction with a Tamarind Artist-in-Residence in 2021.
Held on Thursday, November 12, 2020. Video
- CHARCOAL: Strokes of Vitality. A Group Exhibition with Noe Barnett, Nikesha Breeze, Karsten Creightney,Kianah Jay, and Paula Wilson. Curated by Kianah Jay. Albuquerque, NM, November 4 – December 11, 2020.
- Lover Earth: Art and Ecosexuality, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2020
- Since n’ React to the Drop (online viewing room), curated by David L Bell, OCHI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
- Constellations (online viewing room), David Lewis Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
- 2020-2021 Artist in Residence & Lecture Series, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr School Museum of Contemporary Art (KSMoCA ), Portland, OR. View studio tour here.
