Pamela Helena Wilson
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Pamela Helena Wilson (formerly Pamela Wilson-Ryckman, born 1954) is an American artist who has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1999. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Madrid, Skarhamn and Seville. In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts and her watercolor series "Taking In" was featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission's Art on Market Street Kiosk Poster Program.[1] Wilson is represented by Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco. In her first exhibition with Anglim in 2005, Glen Helfand writing for Artforum reported that Wilson "presented paintings and watercolors in which beauty emerged out of chaos." (March 2005)[2]
Early life and education[edit]
Pamela Helena Wilson was born in New York, New York, in 1954. She earned a B.A. in fine arts from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976 and an M.A. in art history, theory and criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995.
Collections[edit]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[3]
- J. Michael Bishop Art Collection at UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco
- Civic Art Collection, San Francisco
Awards, grants and residencies[edit]
- 2009: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts
- 2007: San Jose ICA, Artist in Residence - Printmaking facility, San Jose, California
- 2003: Yaddo, Fellowship, New York
- 1982: Ossabow Island Foundation, Fellowship, Georgia
- 1976: Eisner Foundation Award and Grant, University of California, Berkeley
References[edit]
- ^ "Announcing The 2009/10 Art on Market Street Poster Program - Public Art & Civic Art Collection". sfartscommission.org. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ Helfand, Glen. "Glen Helfand on Pamela Wilson". artforum.com. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
- ^ "Pamela Wilson-Ryckman". sfmoma.org. Retrieved 15 March 2017.