Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is an American artist of African-American and Caribbean descent who represented the United States at the 2003 Venice Biennale. He was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954, received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1976, and lives in New York City. Wilson is best known for rearranging museum collections, using the same design techniques museums use but coming up with a different point of view. In a work called "Cabinet Making" in the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, in 1992, for example, he placed four elegant parlor chairs facing a whipping post from a Maryland jail. Even his gallery exhibitions often mimic museum interiors. For an exhibition at his New York gallery, Metro Pictures, in 1991, he displayed four skeletons laid out in glass cases, labeled "Someone's Sister," "Someone's Mother," and so on. Wilson's work sets up ways for people to step for a moment beyond their habits in connecting seeing to understanding.  

Untitled, 2003
C-print
30 x 40 inches
Edition 32 of 35
Courtesy of Dinaburg Arts, LLC
Value: $6,000