Folayemi Wilson
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Folayemi (Fo) Wilson is an object and image maker whose work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. Her work explores the Black Atlantic experience though sculptural and multimedia installations presenting speculative fictions that reference history integrating inspiration from American vernacular architecture, literature and science fiction, using original sculpture, found objects, archival media, sound and video. Her process utilizes training in art history and critical theory employing the archive and other research methods to mine history for use as material in her creative practice.
Wilson earned a MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Art History, Theory & Criticism. She has been a grant recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Propeller Fund, and a two time recipient of the Graham Foundation for Advance Studies in the Fine Arts Individual artist grant. Wilson has been awarded residencies or fellowships at ACRE, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Kohler Arts/Industry program, and MacDowell among others. She is a Professor of Art & Art History at Columbia College Chicago and her design work is included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design. She has served on the board of the American Craft Council and was honored as a 3Arts awardee in 2015.
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