Education:
MFA 2017 University of California, Berkeley | Art Practice
BFA 2013 Ohio Wesleyan University | Jewelry/Metals Concentration
Teaching:
2021 Sculpture, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2017 Art 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking, University of California, Berkeley
Just As You Are, Brave New Voices 2017, San Francisco, CA
2016 Wearing our Stories, Michigan State University
Awards/Honors:
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY, $2,300
2017 Emerging Artist Program Awardee, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
2016 Jack K. & Gertrude Murphy Awardee, The San Francisco Foundation, $40,000
2015 Perspectives on African American Experience: Emerging Visions Artist in Residence, Michigan State University
Graduate Opportunity Program Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, $10,000
Honorable Mention, http://www.inprint-is.com/andrew-wilson, InPrint-Is
2014 Special Merit Award, lightspacetime.com, All Photography Art Exhibition - February 2014
2013 Best in 2D, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2013 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2012 Best in 3D, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2012 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
2011 Honorable Award, Spring Art Show, Ohio Wesleyan University
Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Culture Makes Profit: A Juneteenth Disruption, COEUR415, San Francisco, CA
2018 Equivalencies: Abandoned Bodies, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
Ekphrasis @ The Root Slam, MLK Café, Oakland, CA
2017 #FRUIT, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 The Colored Museum, OMI Gallery, Oakland, CA
red, black and GREEN: a blues, Gallery Installation, Z Space, San Francisco, CA
Pop Up Show, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Sweet Noir, Werner Art Gallery, Delaware, OH
Group Exhibitions:
2022 When Light Becomes Form: Processing Photography, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
WEDNESDAY F!RE, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
2021 Parable 003, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
I AM…, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
It Blooms at Night, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
2020 Roots and Roads, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
Adorned, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2019 Forever, A Moment: Black Meditations on Time and Space, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
The Spirit That Resides, 205 San Lazaro, Havana, Cuba
Beyond Space, The Contemporary, Detroit, MI
Unspoken, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA
50th Anniversary Exhibition, New York Arts Program, New York, NY
2018 Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
What We Make, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2017 MFA Now 2016, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Dred Scott: Past, Present, Future, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Dear SF, Love Berkeley, Right Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, SomARTS, San Francisco, CA
Material Realities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Roll a Zero, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
The Boston Biennial 4, Boston, MA
Change Agents: Personal Art as Political Tactic, Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
2015 Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
3.19 Converge // Foodie, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Queeriosity 2015, LGBT Center, San Francisco, CA
InPrint-Is, http://www.inprint-is.com/andrew-wilson
2014 All Photography Art Exhibition, LightSpaceTime.com February 2014
For Marian, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
Benefit Show, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
4th Annual Holiday Art Exhibit, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, CA
2013 Marks Made, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
Art Bruh Bruh, The Spot, Oakland CA
Incursion/Recursion, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Unabridged: A Benefit Show for Victims of Sandy, New York, NY
NYAP Student Art Show, Mew York, NY
The Soul of Objects, Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2011 Best of: Student Exhibition, Werner Gallery, Delaware, OH
Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2010 Spring Art Show, Gallery 2001, Delaware, OH
2009 Five Colleges Show, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
Residencies:
2021 Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston, TX
Ebb and Teena Haycock Public Art Endowment, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
Creatives in Place, Tao Rising, San Francisco, CA
2020 McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2018 Carr Center Independent Scholars Fellowship, Detroit, MI
Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 Perspectives on African American Experience: Emerging Visions Artist in Residence, Michigan State University
HEREKEKE Artist Residency, HEREKEKE Arts Center, Lama, NM
Performances:
2021 Artists in Dialogue: Joy Priest and Andrew I. Wilson Respond to Afro Atlantic Histories, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2020 Queeriosity, San Francisco, CA
2019 Queeriosity, San Francisco, CA
2018 Afro-Queer Masquerade, In Collaboration with the National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2016 Take this Hammer: Ten Bay Area Artists Respond, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Publications:
2020 collymore, nan and The Black Aesthetic Curatorial Collective, Eds. The Black Aesthetic Season III: Black Interiors. Oakland,
Wolfman Books, 2020.
2018 DeSouza, Allan. How Art Can Be Taught. Durham, Duke University Press, 2018.
2017 Batts, Jamal. “To Be Held.” THE DIASPORA, Fall 2016, 13-19.
2014 Cotter, Holland. “’For Marian’.” Review of For Marian. New York Times, 27 March 2014.
2013 Youse, Ellen. “Many mediums, one struggle in ‘Sweet Noir’.” The Transcript, 20 February 2013, p. 7.
Rosen, Ariel. “SFAQ Review: “Incursion/Recursion” Group Exhibition in the Room for Big Ideas (RBI) at Yerba Buena Center of
the Arts, San Francisco.” Review or Incursion/Recursion by Tom Loughlin, Senalka McDonald, Heather Sparks and Andrew
Wilson. SFAQ, 5 December 2013.
Collections:
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Special Collections, University of Michigan, East Lansing, MI
Fine Arts Department, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH