144 W 5th st
Tucson AZ , 85705

520.626.6973
http://www.hzgstudio.org

Vitae

William Wilson
144 5th St. Tucson, AZ 85705 520.770.0629 willraywilson@hotmail.com www.hzgstudio.org

Education

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
MFA Doctorate 2002 Dissertation Tract MFA : Photography with a concentration in the history of photography

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
B.A. 1993 Majors: Studio Art, Art History
Minor: Political Science

Work

2006-2007 Visiting Professor of Photography, University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ

Summer 2005 Co-Director, Pima Association of Governments (PAG), summer youth transportation Art Project, Tucson, AZ

The PAG youth art project brought together 14 youth from Tucson to design
And fabricate a 1000 square foot steel and glass tile mural that will be
Installed on a pedestrian overpass this winter.

2002 - Present Co-director, Barrio Anita Community Mural Project (BAMP), Tucson, AZ.

The largest public art project in Tucson history, this artwork measures 12,000 square feet and was produced at a cost of $500,000. The BAMP murals were created through a community design and fabrication process that involved extensive collaboration between our studio, Barrio Anita residents, the City of Tucson, and the Arizona Department of Transportation. This public art project is playing an important role in inspiring and sustaining the revitalization of Barrio Anita.

Summer 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Native American Youth Outreach Project, Photography Instructor, Program Facilitator, Denver Indian Center, Denver, CO and Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

NAYOP was a community arts partnership between the Denver and Santa Fe Indian communities and the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA). This collaboration brought Native communities together around arts education and youth leadership training. NAYOP empowered young Indian people by helping them to realize self-determined creative expression. A mentoring component of the program engaged IAIA students through a course called Art, Identity and Community. This course challenged students to understand cultural production in relation to their Indian identities by emphasizing the power of art to bring together Native communities. Students who completed this course worked as teaching assistants in summer arts institutes in Denver and Santa Fe where they were mentored by art faculty. This collaboration gave young people the tools necessary to think critically about how their communities have been represented and how they might represent themselves.

2001-2002 Visiting Professor of Photography, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH

1999-2000 Professor of Sculpture, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1997-1999 Photojournalist, The Associated Press, San Jose, Costa Rica

1997-1999 Photojournalist, The Tico Times, San Jose, Costa RICA

Fall 1996 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Spring 1996 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Fall 1995 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Instructor of Record, Intro to 3d design, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Spring 1995 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Instructor of Record, Intro to 3d design, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Fall 1994 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Teaching Assistant, Intro to 3D Design, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Spring 1994 Instructor of Record, Photography 1, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Fall 1991 Research Intern, Autograph, the association of Black Photographers, London, UK

Grants/Fellowships

2007 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art

2006 En Foco’s New Works Photography Awards #10, Honorable Mention

2004 Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Center, First 100 Ph.D.s Award

2000 Pre-doctoral Research Grant, administered by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

1998 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, office of graduate studies, University of New Mexico

1993-1997 Office of Graduate Studies, Under-represented Fellowship, University of New Mexico

1994 American Institute of Photography, National Graduate Fellowship, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

1991-1993 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Oberlin College

Exhibitions

2007 Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art Exhibition

2007 En Foco New Works #10 Exhibition at Longwood Art Gallery/Hostos

2006 Grand canyon: From Dream to Icon, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson. AZ

2006 Auto-Immune Response, (solo), Gustave Heye Center, national Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, New York, NY

Our Land, Our Images, Indigenous Photographers Conference Exhibition, CN Gorman Museum, UCDavis, Davis. CA

2005 Auto Immune Response, (solo), The Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

2004 Barrio Anita Mural Project, Union Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Curated and designed exhibit

2003 Native American Youth Outreach Project (NAYOP), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2002 Native American Youth Outreach Project (NAYOP), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

2001 Native American Youth Outreach Project (NAYOP), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

On the rez, (two-person) American Indian Community House Gallery, NY, NY

Oberlin College studio art Faculty Exhibition, Here Here gallery, Cleveland, OH

2000 Native American Youth Outreach Project (NAYOP), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Introductions, Carl N. Gorman Museum, UC Davis, Davis, CA

Faculty Exhibit 2000, Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM

1997 Ki Yaa’ anii Nishli, (solo), ARC Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1997 We are many; we are One, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, WI

1996 indigenous America: The Glass Floor, Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY

1995 New Mexico/ARIZONA, South Broadway cultural center, Albuquerque, NM

ARIZONA/NEW MEXICO, TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL, TUCSON, AZ

Growing Up, Arc Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1993 Sacred Space, (solo) Oberlin College Art Department, Oberlin OH

Bibliography
David Clemmer, William Wilson: Ki Yaa’ Aanii Nishli, The Magazine, February 1997

Wesley Pulkka, Cultures Collide in Photographic Self-Portrait, Albuquerque Journal, February 2, 1997

Publications

The Navajo photography of Milton s. snow: Photography and federal Indian policy, 1937-1958. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. MFA Doctoral Dissertation, 2002

Review of Fred Wilson’s artist Lecture, Journal of the American Institute of Photography, National Graduate Seminar, Tisch School of the arts, New York, NY.

John A. Booth, Costa Rica: Quest for Democracy, Westview Press, Boulder Co. 1998 (Researched and Supplied all Photography for Book)

1997-1999 Associated Press, San Jose, Costa Rica. As a photojournalist for the associated Press my images were syndicated throughout the world

1997-1999 The Tico Times, San Jose, Costa Rica. As a staff photojournalist for Central America’s largest English language newspaper my images ran weekly throughout Central America.

Conferences
Indigenous Photographers conference, University of California, Davis, April 2006 (conference planner and presenter)

Abriendo Brecha, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 2006. Plenary session: Visual Art and Activism.

MMUF Mid-Atlantic conference, 2005 Oberlin College, Oberlin OH, Plenary session, Panel of Mellon Ph.D.s

Annual Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Conference SSRC-Mellon Mays Summer Conferences Hampton University, Hampton, VA. 1998

American Indian Photographers. Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 1996

National Institute of photography National Graduate Seminar, Tisch School of the Arts, New York university, New York, NY, 1994. “Photography and Federal Indian policy”, Race and Representation panel

Mellon Mays undergraduate Fellowship summer conference, 1992, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Paper: “Photography and federal Indian Policy.” race and representation panel

Buscando America, Co-organized Annual Latino/A-American Indian Students Conference at Oberlin College. Oberlin OH, 1992 Speakers included Gloria Anzaldua and Ward Churchill

Visiting Artist Lecture
National Museum of The American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, 2006
Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2006
University of California Davis, Davis CA, 2006
University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, 2006
Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2000, 2005
Navajo Community College, Window Rock, AZ 1999

Gallery Representation
Berlin Gallery, Heard Museum. Phoenix, AZ

Professional service
Phoenix, AZ, Arts Commission selection committee. responsible for commissioning $3 million in public art for new civic plaza and convention center, 2004
Institute of American Indian Arts’ Studio Art safety Committee. 1998-1999
Guest Curator Firelands Association of Visual Arts Annual Photography Show, Oberlin, OH, 2000
Phoenix. AZ, bus shelter art, Panelist, 2004

Technical abilities
Computer Proficient PC and MAC, Photoshop, In Design, MS WORD SUITE, Cross-Platform networking, Traditional Black and White and Color Photography, DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND PRINTING, Basic digital Video Production (imovie and Final Cut Pro), Proficient in woodworking including safety training in woodshop machinery, Metalworking, including oxy-Acetylene, Arc, Mig and Tig welding.

Collections
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Juane Quick To See Smith Private Collection, Corrales, NM

Commissions:

Pima Association of Governments youth Transportation summer project, 2005
Summer Youth project collimating in a mural of Venetian glass tile and steel on a pedestrian overpass that measures 1000 sqft. $50,000,

Barrio Anita Mural Project (BAMP), Arizona Department of Transportation and City of Tucson, Current 3-year project. The artwork measures 12,000 square feet and is being made from Venetian-Glass mosaic tile, concrete, metal and acrylic with a budget of $500,000.

Governor’s Art Award, 2005. Commissioned to create a trophy for the Arizona Arts Commission for the governor’s art Award

Website: www.hzgstudio.org

References:

Joe Baker, Lloyd Kiva Nu Curator of Contemporary Art, Heard Museum. Phoenix Arizona, jbaker@heard.org 602-251-0242

Bob Peterson, Project Manager, Department of Transportation, City of Tucson. Tucson, AZ RPeters@ci.tucson.az.us520-791-4372.

Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, Co-chair, Oberlin College Dept. of Art. Oberlin, OH Nanette.Yannuzzi-Macias@oberlin.edu 440-775-8161

Joshua Sarantitis, Co-director, Barrio Anita Mural Project, Tucson, AZ murals@earthlink.net 215-432-7148

Travel/Foreign Languages Spoken

Studied abroad in London England, Fall 1991

Lived and worked in San Jose, Costa Rica from 1997-1999

Traveled Throughout Central America as a photojournalist working for the San Jose based, Tico Times and The Associated Press, 1997-1999

Conversational Spanish