Will Wilson’s
(Diné/Navajo Nation) art projects center around the continuation and
transformation of customary Indigenous cultural practice. He is a Diné
photographer and trans-customary artist who spent his formative years
living on the Navajo Nation. Wilson studied photography, sculpture, and
art history at the University of New Mexico (MFA, Photography, 2002) and
Oberlin College (BA, Studio Art and Art History, 1993). Wilson won the
Native American Fine Art Fellowship from the Eiteljorg Museum in 2007,
the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Sculpture in 2010, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for Photography in 2016, and was the
Doran Artist in Residence at the Yale University Art Gallery in 2020.
Wilson has held visiting professorships at the Institute of American
Indian Arts (1999–2000), Oberlin College (2000–01), University of
Arizona (2006–08), and Santa Fe Community College. In 2017, Wilson
received the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts. His
work is exhibited and collected internationally. Wilson is Associate
Professor of Photography at the University of Texas at Austin.