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Anne Wilson is a Chicago based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, Internet projects, and DVD stop motion animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals. She uses found materials (table linen, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread, and wire) that are familiar and rich with cultural meanings. She has shown extensively -- Wilson's work was part of the 7-artist exhibition "Out of the Ordinary" at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2007-08 and her solo show at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago opened in January 2008. Her work was part of the "Alternative Paradise" exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan in 2005-06. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston hosted a major solo exhibition of Wilson's art in 2004, and "Anne Wilson: Unfoldings" was presented at MassArt, Boston in 2002, and at the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University in 2003. She was included in the "2002 Biennial" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and her solo exhibition entitled "Anne Wilson: Anatomy of Wear" was presented in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Wilson's art is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Museum of Glass, Tacoma; and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, among others. Wilson is the recipient of grants from Artadia, the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council. Wilson's work is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. She is a Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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