Letha Wilson’s practice is rooted in material experimentation. Her synthesis of mediums expands the visual and physical dimensions of photography and sculpture. Spanning wall works, indoor sculpture, site-specific installation, and public projects, Wilson’s work engages with the natural world as both subject and content.
Her work has been shown at many venues including Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, CA; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; and the Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC.
Solo and two-person exhibitions have been held at GRIMM Gallery in New York and London, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, FR, Higher Pictures, New York, and Sperone Westwater, New York. Her outdoor sculptures have been installed in the City of Las Vegas, NV, Riverside Park, New York, NY, the Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, and the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, the New York Times, The New Yorker, and Sculpture Magazine, among others.
Wilson has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Walentas Studio Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. She received the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Photography in both 2014 and 2019. In 2024-25, Wilson was the Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (MICA) and is currently a visiting faculty for the Bard M.F.A. program.
Wilson received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University and her M.F.A. from Hunter College in New York City, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Letha Wilson was born in Hawaii, raised in Greeley, Colorado, and currently lives and works in Taghkanic, New York.
Artist's website: www.lethaprojects.com
Artist's instagram: @letha.wilson